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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 11, 2022

It is more likely than not that not only John Eastman committed crimes but Donald Trump committed federal felonies.

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May 10, 2022

the idea that those folks will kind of come into our government... it seems like there’s a concerted effort by these people and vote deniers to basically put them back into office.

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May 7, 2022

I think they will. And the idea that this draft is going to return things to the people I think is just ludicrous.

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May 7, 2022

This draft decision says they're going to overrule Roe v. Wade, overrule Planned Parenthood v. Casey. It's as extreme an opinion, Chuck, as you could imagine.

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May 7, 2022

You can't preach the language of democracy on Monday and then on the other six days of the week try and take it away from the American people.

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May 2, 2022

If people don`t wake up and understand that this is a political battle, this is not about the Supreme Court. This is about one party taking away the right of over half this country.

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May 2, 2022

If they can overrule this case, Roe v. Wade, which is a most super precedent case ever, it`s the case that three Republican justices in 1992, Kennedy, O`Connor and Souter said, that`s the case that social expectations have crystallized…

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May 2, 2022

I think this is -- you know, if this draft opinion becomes the law, it is a huge step back for women in decades, for reproductive justice and for reproductive freedom.

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May 2, 2022

this is the hugest step back for women in decades, the hugest step back for reproductive justice in decades, it will have profound consequences.

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May 2, 2022

you can have now a flat ban on abortion if this opinion becomes the law in any state.

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May 2, 2022

This is a right that all of us have lived our entire lives been able to exercise. And that is the most fundamental right to make a decision about their pregnancy. This isn`t about whether, or not you feel about abortion. It`s about do you…

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Apr 27, 2022

There’s nothing more precious than our right to vote and to have it actually counted and not ripped away by some crazy legal theory.

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Apr 27, 2022

there's smoke, there's fire.

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Apr 24, 2022

Merrick Garland has been sitting on the contempt referral for more than 100 days, passed by Congress over Mark Meadows.

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Apr 24, 2022

This was a coup. It came in two different flavors. One was the soft coup, which goes by the legalese, alternate electors, which is kind of like alternate facts. There is no such thing. You don't get to just name your own electors if you…

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Apr 24, 2022

I don't think Merrick Garland should quit. I don't think the committee should quit until they get a tick-tock of every minute that Donald Trump spent on that day during those three hours.

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Apr 24, 2022

I mean, talk about a taste of Donald Trump getting his own medicine.

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Apr 24, 2022

The record from that day shows quite the opposite.

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Apr 14, 2022

the facts already are so damning that the congressional committee, the January 6th Committee filed a brief in federal court in January that said basically we believe the evidence shows that Donald Trump committed various felonies and then…

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Apr 13, 2022

Donald Trump prevented would happen on January 6. Trump used the bully pulpit for his own selfish, evil, and anti-democratic ends.

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Apr 10, 2022

I know a referral is not necessary, but it`s part of your job. Do your job.

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Apr 4, 2022

She`s supported by nearly every major cops organization in the country.

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Apr 4, 2022

I guess the ancient legal doctrine refers to such claims as cuckoo. That`s ridiculous.

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Apr 4, 2022

It mounted Republican saying we’ll never confirm someone who’s not Republican. They basically said the quiet part out loud.

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Apr 3, 2022

She will now have, it appears, the votes to win, because she’s got new Republican support.

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