102 Quotes by Neal Katyal

Our constitutional system is defined by a balance between the public's need for transparency and the government's need to have a zone of secrecy around decision making. Both are important, yet they are mutually exclusive.

The Supreme Court should televise its proceedings.

Firing the prosecutor who's about to get you or your campaign is kind of quintessential obstruction of justice.

Every time a president invokes executive privilege, there are three relevant audiences he has to think about: the courts, Congress, and the public.

Donald Trump is the swamp.

Even though Mr. Trump can give his campaign as much of his own money as he wants to, he can't ask other people to front the money for him and promise to pay them back later without reporting the arrangement in a timely fashion to the Federal Election Commission.

I can tell you that standard D.O.J. protocol is that you let official acts speak for themselves. You don't go and spin your action. For example, when I ran the Solicitor General's office, there would be all sorts of times when the litigants would make something up, and we would just never comment to the press. It is not what we do.

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

Appointing special counsel Robert Mueller to probe Russian meddling in the 2016 election (and any possible ties to President Trump's campaign) was the only choice the Justice Department had. This is the best way to deal with the conflicts and potential conflicts of interest these matters posed.