102 Quotes by Neal Katyal

authoritative decision to stop people from rioting in the streets.

This is not an ordinary criminal trial. This is an ad hoc trial in which all of the procedures are defined by the president. The public interest is best served by this court . . . . setting some limits.

This is a military commission that is literally unbounded by the laws, Constitution and treaties of the United States.

At issue is whether the president can supersede established civilian and military judicial systems. No graver question was ever considered by this court, nor one which more nearly concerns the rights of the whole people.

It's a quite reasonable interpretation given the facts as presented,

It's not that the States will be forced to recognize marriages from Canada in the United States, but they'll be under increasing pressure in any number of circumstances -- child custody and property being the two most obvious -- to recognize those marriages,

Its decision vests the president with the ability to circumvent the federal courts and time-tested limits on the executive. No decision, by any court, in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has gone this far,

And in a world where the Constitution makes the president all-powerful – in charge of the world’s largest treasury and the world’s strongest army – an unconstrained presidency is a constitutional monstrosity.

Federalist No. 68, written by Alexander Hamilton, warned that the “most deadly adversaries of republican government” would come “chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.” “How could they better gratify this,” he added, “than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?