Neal Katyal

I generally sleep about four hours.

— Neal Katyal

Obstruction of justice requires a corrupt intent.

— Neal Katyal

The Supreme Court should televise its proceedings.

— Neal Katyal

My wife is a doctor at a veteran's hospital.

— Neal Katyal

I like doing scholarship for its own sake.

— Neal Katyal

Donald Trump is the swamp.

— Neal Katyal

At times, President Trump has behaved far worse than Nixon did.

— Neal Katyal

It's definitely true that law enforcement investigations expand over time in appropriate ways.

— Neal Katyal

It's such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation.

— Neal Katyal

The Supreme Court is very capable of acting quickly when it needs to.

— Neal Katyal

I never want to be in the business of predicting what the U.S. Supreme Court will do.

— Neal Katyal

Sometimes momentous government action leaves everyone uncertain about the next move.

— Neal Katyal

We have learned Trump's disregard for the truth, and the rule of law is real.

— Neal Katyal

I'm blessed with the fact that I don't need a tremendous amount of sleep.

— Neal Katyal

The upshot of the Nixon tapes case was that any president is going to have an extremely hard time resisting a request…

— Neal Katyal

It simply cannot be that the president can name his own temporary attorney general to supervise an investigation in which he and…

— Neal Katyal

The special counsel regulations were written to provide the public with confidence that justice was done.

— Neal Katyal

In 2006, I argued and won Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, a Supreme Court case that struck down President George W. Bush's use of…

— Neal Katyal

Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome…

— Neal Katyal

Trump abuses every privilege in the same way. It's kind of like King George. Take a legal concept and then stretch it…

— Neal Katyal

In some cases, Justice Department leaders can supervise investigations despite having personal knowledge about the entities involved.

— Neal Katyal

Our Supreme Court has been very clear that the government can't just simply say something and make it so.

— Neal Katyal

Merrick Garland was the most qualified nominee, not just in our lifetimes but perhaps in the history of the United States Supreme…

— Neal Katyal

I don't want to get into predicting how Judge Gorsuch would vote on the Supreme Court as a Justice Gorsuch. But I…

— Neal Katyal

Traditionally, in America, we have accountability as kind of a key feature of each branch of government in some way. So, you…

— Neal Katyal

If Barr wants to keep defending Trump, he should take a page from one of his predecessors, Henry Stanbery, who stepped down…

— Neal Katyal

The idea that the special counsel regulations, which were written to provide the public with confidence against a coverup, would empower an…

— Neal Katyal

Trump and Barr both insist that he has been cleared, but that's not what more than 1,000 former federal prosecutors who read…

— Neal Katyal

Appointing special counsel Robert Mueller to probe Russian meddling in the 2016 election (and any possible ties to President Trump's campaign) was…

— Neal Katyal

When I was at the Justice Department, there were these people who I called legal Houdinis, who - they would find any…

— Neal Katyal

If you are looking for someone to break the mold, the last guy you look to is Robert Mueller.

— Neal Katyal

I served in two administrations very high up in the Justice Department.

— Neal Katyal

The joy of great fiction is that it transports the reader to another world, where new characters live in otherwise unimaginable ways.…

— Neal Katyal

The special-counsel regulations were drafted at a unique historical moment. We were approaching the end of President Bill Clinton's second term, and…

— Neal Katyal

The nice thing about the 'House of Cards' is they did 70 takes, so it was a little different. You only get…

— Neal Katyal

People tend to take more risks in groups than alone. For these reasons, the law has always treated conspiracy harshly.

— Neal Katyal

One thing we know about government after the New Deal is that checks and balances through whistle-blowing is terrible policy.

— Neal Katyal

Unanimity is important because it signals that the justices can rise above their differences and interpret the law without partisanship.

— Neal Katyal

The Solicitor General is responsible for overseeing appellate litigation on behalf of the United States and with representing the United States in…

— Neal Katyal

Prosecutors use the conspiracy doctrine to punish two or more people who merely agree to commit a criminal act. They don't even…

— Neal Katyal