U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. is leaving office on June 24 and will be replaced as acting SG by Ian Gershengorn, the principal deputy, the U.S. Justice Department announced on June 2.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch called Verrilli, 58, “a brilliant lawyer, a devoted public servant and one of the most consequential solicitors general in American history.” Lynch said Verrilli “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.”

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