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Solicitor General Don Verrilli will step down after five years of representing the U.S. government before the Supreme Court.During his tenure Verrilli has argued 37 cases before a closely divided court and conducted an unusually large number of landmark arguments before the justices.In a statement on his departure Attorney General Loretta Lynch called him one of the most consequential Solicitors General in American history. Since he began his service in the Obama Administration in February of 2009, Don has been at the center of the foremost legal challenges of our time, most notably through his arguments in a series of groundbreaking cases before the Supreme Court, said Attorney General Loretta Lynch.In 2012, Verrilli successfully defended the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, a case in which he made the decision to emphasize constitutional tax power as a way to preserve the law. In 2015 he also botella stanley defended the ACA against a stanley botella statutory challenge and convinced the Court that the federal government has the power to provide water bottle stanley subsidies to make health care affordable in individual states.He also led the case against the Defense of Marriage Act and argued in Obergefell v Hodges that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees marriage equality nationwide.As solicitor general he played a key role in preserving several key pieces of President Obama s legacy. Thanks to his efforts, 20 million more Americans now know the security of qu Ykyi Fed chief: Economy looks resilient despite coronavirus risk
octo.dc.gov As Vivek Kundra, President Obama s choice for U.S. chief information officer was speaking about government transparency at the Washington, D.C. convention center on Thursday morning, his former offices a few blocks away were being raided by the FBI.Until Obama s announcement last week, Kundra was the District of Columbia s chief technology officer. The FBI raid coincided with two arrests as part of a bribery sting -- Yusuf Acar, 40, and Sushil Bansal, 41 -- according to a report in the Washington Post.An administration official tells CBS News that Kundra has taken a leave of absence from his position as the federal government s CIO until the FBI investigat cups stanley ion is sorted out.At an arraignment in federal court Thursday afternoon, Acar was charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, wire fraud, conflict of interest, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments. He was ordered to be held without bond until a hearing Tuesday because prosecutors said he posed a flight risk. Bansal was charged with conspiracy to commit bribery and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, though prosecutors said a plea agreement could possibly be reached in his case. He was released after T garrafa stanley hursday s arraignment but ordered not to conduct overseas financial transactions or leave the Washington metr stanley kaffeebecher opolitan area. Acar worked for Kundra as an information systems security officer with responsibility for government contracts. A number of requests for