Neal Katyal Quotes

Neal Katyal

Profession : Lawyer

Birth : March 12, 1970

I generally sleep about four hours.

Neal Katyal

My wife is a doctor at a veteran's hospital.

Neal Katyal

I think there is a role for courts in a variety of areas, but the notion that we can allow a federal judge to run our greenhouse gas policy strikes me as preposterous.

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Traditionally, in America, we have accountability as kind of a key feature of each branch of government in some way. So, you know, you obviously have to run for office. Or if you're a judge, you've got to be nominated by political officials and so on.

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Firing the prosecutor who's about to get you or your campaign is kind of quintessential obstruction of justice.

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I think probably, you know, from my perspective, the folks who say a sitting president cannot be indicted have the better of the argument that the president can't be indicted - put, you know, through a criminal trial while he is president - and that the proper way to do it is to impeach him first, remove him, and then seek criminal prosecution.

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I like doing scholarship for its own sake.

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I used to walk down the Justice Department on the fifth floor and see all those portraits of legendary attorneys general, Griffin Bell and Robert Jackson and people like that. Bill Barr will not be like that.

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Trump knows he's facing some pretty strong criminal liability when he leaves office, one way or another. Even if a sitting president can't be indicted, he's got to know his future looks like it's behind bars unless he cuts some sort of deal with the prosecutors.

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In our Constitution, our bedrock principle, you know - indeed, what the nation was founded on - is an idea of freedom of religion: that we don't single out people because of their religion.

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Our Supreme Court has been very clear that the government can't just simply say something and make it so.

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The Supreme Court should televise its proceedings.

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Donald Trump is the swamp.

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The Supreme Court has been very clear: when it comes to religious discrimination, you can take intent into consideration.

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I never want to be in the business of predicting what the U.S. Supreme Court will do.

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I don't want to get into predicting how Judge Gorsuch would vote on the Supreme Court as a Justice Gorsuch. But I will say that those of us who've seen him in court as a judge, those of us who have worked with him as I have on a appellate rules committee, understand that this is a man who brings independence and integrity to the job.

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The special counsel regulations were written to provide the public with confidence that justice was done.

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Sometimes momentous government action leaves everyone uncertain about the next move.

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No one wants a president to be guilty of obstruction of justice. The only thing worse than that is a guilty president who goes without punishment.

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Independence sounds good in theory, but in practice, it is mutually exclusive with accountability. The more independence you give a prosecutor, the less you make that prosecutor accountable to the public and regular checks and balances.

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