Justice Scalia to Obama's Solicitor General: 'We're not stupid' While Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr. made the Obama administration's case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health-care law Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted, telling Verrilli, "we're not stupid." Ex-Clinton Solicitor General, Colorado AG React To SCOTUS Arguments After Tuesday's high court arguments, former Clinton-era Solicitor General Walter Dellinger told NPR's Robert Siegel it was easy to answer the justices' question about what would stop the federal government from ordering citizens to buy products other than insurance. Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said the more fundamental point was that the U.S government didn't have the power. The Guy Who Choked in Front of the Supreme Court Solicitor General Donald Verrilli has become the left's fall guy for wilting like a flower in front of the Supreme Court today while defending the Obama administration's individual mandate, a key provision of the Democrats' health reform bill. Until today, conventional wisdom held that the court would uphold ObamaCare's individual mandate by a close 5-4 vote. But Verrilli's bruising performance ... Obama's Solicitor General, Donald Verrilli, has rough start at health care oral arguments Click image to see more photos. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren) Supreme Court justices battered Obama's solicitor general, Donald Verrilli Jr., with questions today, prodding him to explain why the government could compel Americans to buy health care insurance and not, for example, force them to purchase broccoli or burial insurance. Verrilli appeared to stumble over his words [...] Obama's Solicitor General Donald Verrilli ties health care law directly to 'Romneycare' The Obama Administration's top lawyer told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the health reforms Mitt Romney signed into law in Massachusetts helped inspired the president's controversial health care overhaul — that Romneycare shaped Obamacare. With the law's fate in the balance, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli told the nine justices that the individual mandate — [...] Former solicitor-general 'changed raids advice' Former solicitor-general David Collins changed his advice after telling senior ministers that those involved in the Urewera training camps could be charged under the Terrorism Suppression Act, Labour MP Annette King says. Solicitor-General backtracked on terror act decision - King Annette King says she questioned the solicitor-general at a meeting held the night before the raids. Solicitor-General backtracks on terror act decision - King Annette King says she questioned the solicitor-general at a meeting held the night before the raids. Annette King: Solicitor-General went back on Urewera terror act decision Annette King says she questioned the solicitor-general at a meeting held the night before the raids. Lawyers arguing health care in front of justices The lawyers arguing Tuesday at the Supreme Court over President Barack Obama's health care law:___DONALD B. VERRILLI JR.Verrilli is solicitor general of the United States, the government's official representative ...
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