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Neal Katyal

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Neal Katyal is a prominent American attorney and legal scholar known for his work in constitutional law. He served as the Acting Solicitor General of the United States from 2010 to 2011, becoming the first Asian American to hold this position. Katyal has argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court, often focusing on issues related to civil rights and government accountability. He is a partner at the law firm Hogan Lovells and has been a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches courses on constitutional law and national security law.

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May 21, 2025

The board is the easy case.

Neal Katyal

May 21, 2025

No other president in our lifetimes has ever attempted to violate for-cause removal statutes in this manner.

cbsnews.com
Oct 2, 2022

Trump's claim to executive privilege is as baseless as his claim that he won the 2020 election.

msnbc.com
Oct 2, 2022

the party seems so, unfortunately, in the pocket of Donald Trump, that is a possibility.

msnbc.com
Oct 2, 2022

Delay is the name of this game, and they know the prospects before the Court of Appeals are quite weak.

msnbc.com
Oct 2, 2022

the biggest threat to Donald Trump is Donald Trump`s own mouth.

msnbc.com
Sep 27, 2022

I think it’s very hard for Merrick Garland at this point, not to indict Donald Trump in federal court. He is, you know, looks like the evidence shows. He’s committed really serious, incredibly serious crimes, and the rulebook kind of…

msnbc.com
Sep 27, 2022

I think that this really almost forces Merrick Garland, given what the Court of Appeal said last week, to do -- to indict Donald Trump there say -- the Court of Appeals saying, this is really serious, there's no abuse of rights.

msnbc.com
Sep 26, 2022

A crime requires two things. It requires a bad act and a bad criminal intent.

msnbc.com
Sep 26, 2022

If I had seven folders in my Justice Department office, that -- or seven classified documents, top secret ones in my office, I`d be in jail just for having those documents in my office.

msnbc.com
Sep 26, 2022

This special master has become a nightmare for Trump and the icing on the cake is that Trump did it to himself.

msnbc.com
Sep 25, 2022

It is, again, not the way our democracy is supposed to work.

msnbc.com
Sep 22, 2022

There’s this powerful gap, Trump, between what he’s saying out of court, and what his lawyers are saying in court.

msnbc.com
Sep 22, 2022

Donald Trump is facing many, many different criminal investigations and he’s running scared from all of them.

msnbc.com
Sep 22, 2022

It looks like the days of him receiving preferential treatment from the U.S. government, from the prosecutors, from the state governments, and, most importantly, from the courts are now appears to be over.

msnbc.com
Sep 22, 2022

This is a terrible week for Donald Trump.

msnbc.com
Sep 22, 2022

The loss in the court of appeals for the 11th Circuit... is so telling. They destroyed them.

msnbc.com
Sep 21, 2022

This new lawsuit is basically alleging that Donald Trump ignored outside experts and advice that he inflated his personal value.

msnbc.com
Sep 16, 2022

You know in America, we don`t have two systems of justice, one for the president and one for everyone else.

msnbc.com
Sep 16, 2022

I think is probably the worst the single most atrocious trial court decision I`ve ever read, and that`s saying a lot.

msnbc.com
Sep 14, 2022

I think Jeff Clark can try and fight these ethics charges all he wants, but even if he avoids disbarment, I’m not sure it’s going to matter because I don’t know anyone who would want to hire this guy to represent them again.

msnbc.com
Sep 14, 2022

This attorney is unwilling to be thrown under the bus by Donald Trump.

msnbc.com
Sep 14, 2022

Trump lost a lot of leverage because he`s now no longer president.

msnbc.com
Sep 14, 2022

It’s just as one more, you know, kind of horrible thing that Donald Trump did which is put this guy in who wasn’t you know who could maybe clean up oil spills at best and make him the top law enforcement officer of the entire United States.

msnbc.com
Sep 14, 2022

There is no attorney-client privilege.

msnbc.com

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