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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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Aug 25, 2021

They`ve all got disbarment proceedings coming as a result of this order.

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Aug 25, 2021

This wasn`t facts. It wasn`t law. It was a disservice to the bar. It was a disservice to the country.

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Aug 24, 2021

I mean we`re talking about, Lawrence, an insurrection against the United States with possibly some of it from happening within.

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Aug 24, 2021

I think this is really significant. I think it underscores the seriousness of the inquiry that the January 6 Commission`s looking at.

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Aug 9, 2021

I can`t imagine why we went to announce an investigation into something of that gravity in seriousness, and I think it`s got to be announced now.

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Aug 9, 2021

I think we do need to get to the bottom of what happened. You know, Senator Durbin`s absolutely right.

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Aug 8, 2021

I think what you said about democracy is absolutely right. We can’t pretend to be a democracy if we don’t fair out un-American thugs that tried to do this to our country. There’s a war on the right to vote right now happening.

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Aug 8, 2021

The Republicans haven’t like just discovered this strategy by accident all of a sudden. They understand that, you know, the majority of the American public doesn’t support their positions anymore, and so the only way they can win is by not…

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Aug 4, 2021

I think that was, you know, a brief acknowledgement of the reality based community when the President said he was going to let these six individuals testify.

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Aug 4, 2021

the law is very clear. It says that when member -- when three congressional committees if any of them asked for the tax returns of any individual, they shall be turned over, shall means must.

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Aug 1, 2021

It’s pretty clear to me that Congress, if they authorize these subpoenas, should get it.

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Aug 1, 2021

This defense is, I'm an insurrectionist, but I was acting under Trump's orders.

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Jul 30, 2021

This was an attempted coup and attempt to steal an election and weaponizing the Justice Department in the process that`s both illegal and pretty much the most unAmerican thing you can come up with in your wild imagination.

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Jul 30, 2021

This was an attempted coup, an attempt to steal an election.

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Jul 27, 2021

These letters make it so that Justice Department officials will now have to testify or try and maybe hire personal lawyers to try and avoid testimony, which will go nowhere. And, ultimately, this can lead to Donald Trump himself testifying…

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Jul 27, 2021

the truth is going to come out. These folks will be held accountable.

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Jul 27, 2021

What we are talking about here is the president -- the former president weaponizing the Justice Department in order to advance his personal, political interest.

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Jul 20, 2021

This act that he was accused of violating, the Foreign Agent Registration Act, it goes back to 1938. And it advances one of the most serious purposes in government, and saying, look, you want to lobby for a foreign government, you can do…

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Jul 15, 2021

What happened in Sacramento, what happened on January 6, it all happened under his watch.

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Jul 15, 2021

People died on sacred ground, on hallowed ground, our Capitol.

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Jul 5, 2021

This guy Greenberg’s already written a confession, evidently, that implicates Gaetz.

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Jul 5, 2021

This is not a fringe benefits case. That’s what Donald Trump wants to portray it is. It’s fraud, plain and simple.

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Jul 5, 2021

I just want them to get the same rule book as every other American.

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Jul 1, 2021

Today, unfortunately, Brian is the second. They reach Section Two of the Voting Rights Act, which is a section that allows people to sue if they find a voting practice that's discriminatory.

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Jul 1, 2021

I think that Michael Cohen's absolutely right that the prosecutors here are looking for something bigger than just this. But I think what's left on -- what people don't talk about on the discourse is these charges are against the Trump…

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