Neal Katyal Quotes
I served in two administrations very high up in the Justice Department.
She did not think that the U. S. Attorneys, most of whom were Republicans, were loyal enough to President George W. Bush or ideological enough. The Attorney General refused to fire them all, but he did fire eight for political reasons including one to be replaced by a friend of White House Aide Karl Rove. Miers was so unqualified for the Supreme Court that the Senate members of her own party forced her to withdraw.
Explaining why his Justice Department was arguing in court that abortion protestors who interfere with abortion clinics could be criminally prosecuted. As a rabid abortion opponent, anti-choice people expected him to side with the violent protesters.
Buchanan, the Bachelor President, was wedded to public service. His self-deprecating remark quickly became his own nickname—O.p. f.
This Attorney General didn’t even want the FBI or the Immigration & Naturalization Service in his department as size and power might compromise the objectivity of the advice he gave the President. See {45926}
He was explaining his reasons for resigning in 2005 from the number two position in the Justice Department. The George W. Bush administration had implemented a program of secret wiretapping and surveillance of American citizens in America which required the authorization of the Justice Department which had determined that the program as it was being implemented violated the law. The Attorney General was ill in the hospital but had told Comey that he would not sign the authorization. The White House then pressured Comey to sign and he refused, and in a similar replay of the Watergate “Saturday Night Massacre”, the number three man at Justice would have been ordered to sign. His resignation convinced President Bush to alter the program to take account of the Justice Department objections.
Neal Kumar Katyal is an American lawyer and academic. He is a partner at Hogan Lovells and the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center. During the Obama administration, Katyal served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States from May 2010 until June 2011. Previously, Katyal served as an attorney in the Solicitor General's office, and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the U.S. Justice Department. He is currently a Partner of Chamath Palihapitiya Social+capital Partnership and a member of the board of Social Capital Ventures Inc.
