"Obama's lawyer chokes again"

Little known outside the elite world of Supreme Court lawyers only a few weeks ago, Donald Verrilli has become famous — or notorious, depending on one’s point of view — for his oral arguments before the high court in the health care cases last month and in the Arizona illegal immigration case this week.

Observers have panned Verrili’s performances and point to comments by some of the justices showing impatience with how he made the Obama administration’s case.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor told Verrilli during Wednesday’s oral argument, “General, I’m terribly confused by your answer. Okay? And I don’t know that you’re focusing in on what I believe my colleagues are trying to get to.”