THE WAR ON MERIT: Harvard Turns to Biden, Obama Lawyers To Fend Off Race-Blind Admissions Enforcement. “At a Thursday, September 24 morning hearing before Judge Myong Joun, two lawyers sat alongside Harvard vice president and general counsel Jennifer O’Connor. The one who did all the talking was Stuart Delery, a former WilmerHale partner now at Gibson Dunn. Delery was White House counsel to President Biden from 2022 to 2023 and also served in a senior Justice Department role from 2014 to 2016, during the Obama administration. Also at Harvard’s table in the courtroom was Joshua Levy, a lawyer at Ropes and Gray who Biden twice nominated to be U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts.”