Neal Katyal

The lawyer for the federal government today, whose job is supposed to be to defend federal laws, went into the Supreme Court to try and tear down the federal law, the Affordable Care Act, which is a total betrayal of his oath.

Trump blatantly tried to destroy the law, and in a lawless fashion, and I think you heard, you know, the -- wide -- wide group of justices on the court today say uh-uh, not under our watch.

It's as obvious. It's yet another Trump failure. And like all the rest of Trump's failures, thank God.

the rule of law is what makes this country great.

none of this is going to be successful, Brian, because we live in a world of facts, not alternative facts.

We're turning away the Pennsylvania request right now, but, right after the election, we can come back in and decided in favor the Pennsylvania Republicans.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said their Constitution has a guarantee of -- quote -- 'free and equal voting.'

If it's a state decision, that's a matter of state law, and it's decided by the state Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court has nothing to do with it.

The problem I have had is that, unfortunately, so many people, so many political operatives at the Justice Department have been taking the Trump line and doing his bidding. And that is a really corrosive thing.

Trump promised to nominate justices who destroy it. And Trump, of course, four years has tried to destroy it legislatively.

It's absolutely right. It's totally reprehensible, Ari. And when you're in the federal government, either in the attorney general -- the attorney general, or the president, or the White House, or whatever, you're very conscious of your…

There should be no doubt about the capacity of the man who holds the nuclear launch codes. Yet that doubt is unavoidable right now.

I agree with President Trump on as he said at her announcement that she deserves a respectful and dignified hearing.

The Trump administration has gone into the U.S. Supreme Court, Brian, to say no remedy, take away the Affordable Care Act as a whole the entire thing.

But I think even he acknowledges he's afraid he can't do any of that. And that's why he's taking this unprecedented, really risky step, which tarnishes the court immensely and tarnishes Judge Barrett.

I think the focus has to be the transformational nature of this appointment and this kind of rush to jam her through, because the president's afraid he's going to lose in November.

It is weird. And it is so remarkable that we're talking about this, and this and all these other scenarios are usually unthinkable. And it's only thinkable now because of one fundamental thing, which is, Donald Trump doesn't care about the…

It's kind of weird, the way that there have been imbalances, of the last 18 justices, 14 appointed by Republican presidents, and Trump wants to make it 15 of 19.

the fact that the president has been going around saying in campaign rallies he needs her on the court because there may be an election dispute is really one of the most corrosive things I have ever heard a president say about our United…

I think it'll be -- I think that the Supreme Court will have 11, 13 or 15 justices on it as a result of what the Republicans are doing and the monkey games they're playing with our most treasured institution, the Supreme Court.

I think it will change things.

I do not understand how Democrats will be able to not expand the size of the Supreme Court, which, of course, is not fixed in the Constitution.

I think folks should be concerned about what this means for the future of the court, absolutely.

If he does, though, I think the Democrats would be well within their rights to think about all sorts of recourses of action, including increasing the size of the Supreme Court in a Biden administration.

I certainly think it would be 100 percent inappropriate for President Trump to try and nominate someone.