Obama's Solicitor General Will Resign

Government Executive: Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, who serves as the Obama administration’s top lawyer in Supreme Court cases, will step down on June 24.

Verrilli’s five-year term as solicitor general is one of the longest in history, and easily the longest in recent memory. It was also an unusually prominent run, as Verrilli argued several landmark cases before the Supreme Court. As solicitor general, Verrilli argued the winning side in defending the Affordable Care Act, challenging a harsh Arizona immigration law, and making marriage equality the law of the land.

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