Occupation: Lawyer Birth: June 29, 1957
Justice [Sonia]Sotomayor said, "Let's talk - you want to talk about the tax power."And I got like a 10-minute run on the tax power. And, boy, was I g….
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 lo….
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 breakfas….
The part that the public sees is the arguments up at the podium and the briefs that we file. But a significant part of the job - in fact, I'd say I s….
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….
Brett Kavanaugh is a brilliant, brilliant judge and one of the most-distinguished conservative jurists in the country..
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 ans….
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 ….
The moot court process in our office when we get ready, we - everybody, including the SG, does two moot courts for each argument. And they are phenom….
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 ….
Sometimes one of the justices, because they're, you know, they're brilliant lawyers themselves, can put the question in a particular way so that, eve….
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 communicat….
Gay and lesbian people are equal. They deserve equal protection of the laws, and they deserve it now..
There was this point about, you know, the basic point there as well - this statute treats some parts of the country different from others, and what's….
People have got to make their best calls in what they think about a case when they're covering it. But I do think the lesson there, and I guess stati….
The cases involving the question of whether U.S. courts should be open to claims of international human rights violations brought by foreign persons ….
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….
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 c….
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 ….
I think what happened is that everybody's impressions got formed in those first few minutes. And I felt like, by the latter part of it, I kind of cla….
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 som….