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…

- Donald Verrilli Jr.

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…

- Donald Verrilli Jr.

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…

- Donald Verrilli Jr.

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…

- Donald Verrilli Jr.

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…

- Donald Verrilli Jr.

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

- Donald Verrilli Jr.

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…

- Donald Verrilli Jr.

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 …

- Donald Verrilli Jr.

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…

- Donald Verrilli Jr.