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FILTER RESULTS ►In Commencement Address, Verrilli Offers Lessons Learned
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. on Friday offered some words of advice for the graduating class of the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law. “First, expect some adversity to come your way, you are...
Obama Admin Asks SCOTUS to Take NLRB Recess Appointments Case
U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to take and reverse a lower-court ruling that President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are unconstitutional, and therefore that no one must follow any orders issued by NLRB. Show More Summary
SCOTUS: DOMA's Fate in Kennedy's Hands
President Obama’s Solicitor General Donald Verrilli said two things in Court Wednesday that may swing Justice Anthony Kennedy one way or the other on whether to uphold or strike down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). DOMA...Show More Summary
Chief Justice Roberts Misconstured Voting Data During Voting Rights Argument
Roberts grilled Solicitor General Donald Verrilli on his knowledge of voting data, but the chief justice was wrong reports NPR. The point the chief justice was trying to make was that Massachusetts, which is not covered by the preclearance section of the Voting Rights Act, has a far worse record in black voter registration and [...]
Chief Justice Misconstrued Census Data
"At the voting rights argument in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts tore into Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, grilling him on his knowledge of voting statistics," NPR reports. "The point the chief justiceShow More Summary
Massachusetts SOS miffed that John Roberts said Massachusetts has "the worst ratio of white voter turnout to African-American voter turnout."
The Chief Justice was questioning Solicitor General Donald Verrilli in the oral argument about the federal Voting Rights Act (which treats some states differently from others based on voting statistics from 1972). The Chief also pointed...Show More Summary
What’s Behind Obama’s Latest Evolution on Gay Marriage
From the Supreme Court Thursday came President Barack Obama’s latest evolution on gay marriage. Obama’s Solicitor General Donald Verrilli submitted an amicus brief to the court urging the justices to guarantee marriage rights to gays in the eight states that currently have civil unions, rather than pushing for those rights in every state nationwide. Show More Summary
Scalia, Race, and ThinkProgress's Vicious Cycle
Over at ThinkProgress, the race brigade is out in full force. Why? Because yesterday, during oral arguments apropos the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Civil Rights Act, Justice Scalia outlined to solicitor general Donald Verrilli...Show More Summary
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Our initial report from today's Supreme Court oral arguments on the Voting Rights Act. How did it go? This question from Chief Justice John Roberts to Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr., who was defending the law, gives you a good...
Obama Administration Calls for Supreme Court to Strike Down DOMA
In a brief filed Friday, a lawyer with the Obama administration called for the Supreme Court to strike down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli told the high court that laws concerning gay people,...Show More Summary
The 6 Best Arguments For Gay And Lesbian Equality In Obama’s DOMA Brief
On Friday, President Obama’s Solicitor General, Donald Verrilli, filed a brief in United States v. Windsor, a case urging the Supreme Court to outlaw Section 3 of a 1996 federal law that prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. The Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA, the Obama administration contends, “denies to tens of [...]
President Obama To Supreme Court: 'DOMA Is Unconstitutional'
President Obama's administration filed an historic legal brief late Friday that declares his belief to the US Supreme Court that DOMA is unconstitutional. The dossier was written by Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. According to NBC News: The Obama administration urged...
Obama administration urges justices to overturn anti-gay marriage law
The Obama administration outlined its argument on Friday why the U.S. Supreme Court should strike down a federal law that defines marriage as between a man and woman. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli filed a brief with the court saying...Show More Summary
Obama Administration Asking Supreme Court To Kill DOMA
The White House has filed a brief with the Supreme Court to void what is viewed as a unconstitutional section of the Defense of Marriage Act. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli told the high court that laws concerning gay people, an “unpopular group,” should face heightened scrutiny and that DOMA’s Section 3 — which keeps the [...]
Justice Department mum on Prop 8 plans as deadline looms
By Jacob Combs When Barack Obama gave marriage equality a prominent shout-out in his second inaugural address, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr. must have known his job had just gotten a little bit harder. As the government’s highest advocate before the Supreme Court, it falls to Verrilli to explain the Obama administration’s position on issues [...]
Morning Docket: 02.05.13
As President Barack Obama’s position on gay marriage continues to “evolve,” we’re left wondering what exactly Solicitor General Donald Verrilli will say come Supreme Court oral arguments showtime in late March. [New York Times]
“This...Show More Summary
News: Ed Koch, Delaware, G-A-Y, Alexander Ludwig, Lil Kim
NYT: Obama's Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. faces choice on the Prop 8 case. Hunger Games hottie Alexander Ludwig in his upcoming film Final Girl. Meet Lil' Kim's new face. Illinois' leading marriage activist says gays can and should...
The Military Rationale for Affirmative Action in College Admissions
(Ilya Somin) In the recent oral argument in Fisher v. University of Texas, and in his amicus brief on behalf of the United States, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli emphasized the military rationale for affirmative action. Without racial preferences in college admissions, we will not have an adequate supply of minority officers in the armed forces, which would [...]
Ginsburg, Verrilli and Arias of Agreement
In the health care cases decided in late June, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Solicitor General Donald Verrilli were singing pretty much the same tune. On Friday, they will be on stage together to discuss tunes of another...
A Relaxed Solicitor General Has a Bit of Fun at His Own Expense
These are lighter days for U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli.
- Attorney General Eric Holder
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Don Jon
- Lois Lerner
- Fifth Amendment
- Jose Canseco
- Oklahoma Tornado
- Call of Duty Ghosts
- Bad Teacher
- Chairman Ben Bernanke
- Boy Scouts of America
- Cash Money Records
- Tesla Motors
- Man of Steel
- Ibragim Todashev
- Tamerlan Tsarnaev
- Microsoft's Xbox One
- Jennifer Aniston
- Joe Francis
- Paris Hilton Signs
