A crime requires two things. It requires a bad act and a bad criminal intent.
Neal Katyal: “A crime requires two things. It requires a bad act and a bad criminal intent.”
Editor's note · Context
Discussing the legal implications of Donald Trump's actions regarding classified documents.
Share
More from Neal Katyal
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…
Delay is the name of this game, and they know the prospects before the Court of Appeals are quite weak.
No other president in our lifetimes has ever attempted to violate for-cause removal statutes in this manner.
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.





