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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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Sep 14, 2022

There is no attorney-client privilege.

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Sep 5, 2022

Every defendant would love a special master. Every defendant says, what you just put on the screen, Joy, oh, the stigma of this investigation is hurting me.

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Sep 5, 2022

You can`t have executive privilege against the executive branch.

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Aug 31, 2022

if it were anyone else, this case would be over.

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Aug 31, 2022

Left unchecked, the Department of Justice will impugn (ph), leak and publicize selective aspects of their investigation.

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Aug 31, 2022

A federal criminal indictment is very, very hard for Donald Trump to avoid at this point. He stole these documents, he lied about it, he refused to give the documents back. I think it`s impossible, virtually, for the Justice Department to…

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Aug 28, 2022

politicians can`t embrace this kind of rhetoric. I mean, it`s a very scary turn for the nation when politics start defaulting to threats of violence if the far-right doesn`t get its way.

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Aug 28, 2022

I had the privilege of serving as special prosecutor in the George Floyd murder. And it`s no secret that people said those kinds of things. We couldn`t prosecute these four cops without there being riots in the street and the like.

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Aug 28, 2022

the federal judge has already found probable cause to believe that Donald Trump has committed these crimes.

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Aug 28, 2022

January 6th is a perfect illustration of all of this happening.

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Aug 25, 2022

This is just about the worst prep -- post- presidential life imaginable because Donald Trump has been given basically positive reinforcement for his whole life for criminal conduct.

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Aug 21, 2022

Well, Ari, like so much that Donald Trump touches, this is going to blow up in his face.

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Aug 21, 2022

These attacks on law enforcement are despicable.

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Aug 21, 2022

There is no two-second insurrectionist defense in federal criminal law or in politics.

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Aug 21, 2022

I think that -- I grew up at a time when that I thought would be a bipartisan thing.

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Aug 15, 2022

He`s absolutely justified. The search it was justified and obviously produced fruits exactly what garlic thought would be found. They found it.

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Aug 15, 2022

What in the world was he doing with top secret electronic intercepts and information about the French president and stuff like that.

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Aug 14, 2022

I have to be very worried that my lawyer is now the target of a criminal investigation.

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Aug 14, 2022

It strongly suggests that Donald Trump is the subject of a grand jury investigation at the federal level.

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Aug 12, 2022

These are covered operations, these are electronic intercepts, all sorts of stuff. It’s ridiculous.

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Aug 12, 2022

We learned that at Mar-a-Lago was some of the nation`s most serious sensitive information, what is called Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information that was at Mar-a-Lago. So it ain`t no hoax. It`s there. And there`s no reasonable…

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Aug 12, 2022

the former president of the United States is now under an investigation for violation of the Espionage Act and other federal crimes, and things are looking very serious for Donald Trump far more so than -- it’s far more likely that he will…

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Aug 12, 2022

It’s ridiculous, Lawrence, because you don’t get to declassify something just for yourself, you declassify for everything.

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Aug 11, 2022

There are a lot of members of the Republican Party had to seriously reconsider the grave national security threats that Donald Trump poses to this nation.

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Aug 8, 2022

He’s got something to hide.

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