Donald Verrilli Jr. Citas

• Gay and lesbian people are equal. They deserve equal protection of the laws, and they deserve it now.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Gay, Derecho, Personas

  "If SCOTUS Decides in Favor of Marriage Equality, Thank Solicitor General Don Verrilli" by Mark Joseph Stern, www.slate.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Quite often there's a great deal of disagreement within the executive branch about what we should do. Some cases are pretty straightforward, but a lot of them aren't.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Branches, Executive Branch, Should

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• My job was always to pull a vote over from somebody who was likely to be at least at the outset disinclined to agree with me on some things or at least disinclined to agree with the policy that I was defending.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Jobs, Vote, Policy

  "Farewell to the General". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• One thing I've experienced and I feel really grateful for now that I'm on my way out is that I felt that the justices gave that back to me. I really did. You know, of course, you can have some sharp exchanges. That's the nature of the thing, and that's fine. But really in the main I felt like the tone from them was, "Yeah. We may not agree with you, but we're going to have a discussion about this." And it did.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Grateful, Justice, May

  "Farewell to the General". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I don't think this is a situation where you can say that Congress was avoiding any mention of the tax power. It'd be one thing if Congress explicitly disavowed an exercise of the tax power. But given that it hasn't done so, it seems to me that it's - not only is it fair to read this as an exercise of the tax power, but this court has got an obligation to construe it as an exercise of the tax power if it can be upheld on that basis.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Exercise, Thinking, Done

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• La parte que el público ve son los argumentos en el estrado y los escritos que presentamos. Pero una parte importante del trabajo -de hecho, yo diría que dedico más tiempo a esta parte del trabajo, que es decidir cuál será la posición de Estados Unidos en los casos en los que vamos a participar ante el tribunal.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Jobs, United States, Facts

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• If people can live openly and be equal, then you have to have a pretty strong reason to say they can't get married.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Strong, People, Married

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• There was a huge movement that led up to [gay marriage legilization], and I played a small role in the great scheme of things. But it was really a privilege to get to do it.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Gay, Roles, Movement

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• Watch what happens on Twitter. One thing leads to another very quickly. And in an ironic sense, even though it's such a democratic form of communication, there's a funny way in which it leads to a hardening of a conventional wisdom much more quickly than might happen if you were reflecting on it a little more.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Communication, Ironic, Watches

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Very quickly the lawyers in the Justice Department pulled together a set of recommendations about how we ought to defend the law as a constitutional matter. And it was the lawyers in the Justice Department who thought that it was important to include the tax power argument as part of it.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Law, Justice, Important

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• The president [Barak Obama] had been asked some questions by George Stephanopoulos on a news show about whether it was a tax. And he had given an answer that you might read as him saying it wasn't a tax. I think what he said was, "It isn't a tax increase on all Americans."

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Thinking, President, News

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• Brett Kavanaugh is a brilliant, brilliant judge and one of the most-distinguished conservative jurists in the country.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Country, Judging, Conservative

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• I did think Justice [Antony] Kennedy's opinion on Lawrence was critical to that because it really, what Lawrence in one sense was, of course, about consensual sex being something that the government can't regulate. But really in a more fundamental sense, what it was saying, "Look. Gay people are normal people, and they get to live normal lives. They're not criminals by virtue of the fact of being gay."

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Sexo, Gay, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• What we once thought of as necessary and proper reasons for ostracizing and marginalizing gay people, we now understand do not justify that kind of oppression.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Gay, People, Kind

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• The cases involving the question of whether U.S. courts should be open to claims of international human rights violations brought by foreign persons against foreign government officials. And the State Department on the one side has got a very consistent and powerful view that U.S. courts should be open to those claims because there needs to be a place in the world where they can be brought. And those human rights norms ought to be real and enforceable, and we ought to be a beacon to the world.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Powerful, Real, Rights

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Me siento tan bendecido por haber tenido la oportunidad de hacer este trabajo [ Procurador General de EE.UU.] en este momento de nuestra historia. Ha sido algo increíble.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Jobs, Blessed, Chance

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• I had a great deal of independence from the president and the White House during the entirety of my five years. And I'm not sure exactly what that is, but our friend, Walter Dellinger, has a theory about it, and I think he's probably right. And the theory starts with the fact that I worked in the White House for a year and a half before coming over to the position of SG. And because of that, when I was nominated, there was some chatter out there that, "Oh. They're putting a political hack in. This has never happened before."

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Pensar, Años, Blanco

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I do think it's true that a huge amount of the oversight that the White House engages in with respect to the Executive Branch is out of fear that somebody's going to do something crazy and drive the president off a cliff.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Crazy, Thinking, White

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• If you've ever been in the West Wing, it's like a little rabbit warren. Everybody's crammed in there on top of each other, and you're eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the mess with people. And so you really get to know each other very well. So, I think they just weren't worried.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Thinking, Wings, Lunch

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I do a little bit of hand-holding on the big cases. You know, like health care, I'll call over and say, "Don't worry. We've got it under control. We have the best people working on it. We're on schedule. Stay calm." So, those kinds of things.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Hands, People, Worry

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• There was only really one time that I had a substantive interaction with the president [Barak Obama] directly, and that was in 2013 when we were deciding whether to file a brief in the first gay marriage case, the Perry against Hollingsworth case. That was a weighty decision about whether the United States government was going to come in and say that heightened scrutiny ought to apply and some state bans on same-sex marriage ought to be unconstitutional. And that was the one time in my tenure where I thought I ought not make this decision without talking to the president.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Sex, Gay, Government

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• I think what Lawrence did was provide an assurance that gay and lesbian couples could live openly in society as free people and start families and raise families and participate fully in their communities without fear. And two things flowed from that, I think. One is that has brought us to the point where we understand now in a way even that we did not fully understand in Lawrence, that gay and lesbian people and gay and lesbian couples are full and equal members of the community.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Pareja, Gay, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.slate.com

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• In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Past, Decision, President

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• When we're not a party, we sometimes file as amicus, as friend of the court, 25, 30 times a term, sometimes more. And in each of those cases, we've got to decide what position the government's going to take. And that is the solicitor general's job to make that decision.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Jobs, Party, Government

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, hopefully, have a stronger impact.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Couple, Impact, Years

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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