Neal Katyal Quotes

Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history.

When I worked in the Department of Justice, in the office of the solicitor general, it was my job to argue cases for the United States before the Supreme court. I always found it very moving to stand before the justices and say, 'I speak for my country.'

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He's an overwhelming choice.

The positions taken by the Solicitor General for years have carried a special weight with the Supreme Court because they are regarded as representing not merely the political interests of the Administration but the broad interests of the nation.

The Attorney General of the United States is, of course, not the president's lawyer. The AG is supposed to be the attorney for the United States, protecting the rule of law.

The Office of the Solicitor General has a deeply ingrained fundamental institutional culture that has stood the test of time for decades. I went because I wanted to do public service and do an appellate practice at the very highest levels I could.

The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed.

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.

I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'

An act of Congress is binding upon all as much as if it were included … in the Constitution itself.

The Supreme Court of the United States, in a recent case, has, by a decision of seven to two of the Judges, established as law what our Southern statesmen have been repeating daily for many years on the floors of Congress, that the whole action of this Government on the subject of slavery, for more than a quarter of a century, from the initiation of the Missouri Restriction in 1822, to the California Compromise in 1850, has been all beyond the limits of the Constitution; was without justifiable authority; and that the whole mass should be now proclaimed null and void, and that slavery is guaranteed by the constitutional compact.

The exercise of the appellate power over those judgments of the state tribunals which may contravene the Constitution or laws of the United States is, we believe, essential …

The Supreme Court is an ideal legislature for the intelligentsia.

The Supreme Court is our ultimate check and balance.

The Attorney General's ultimate client must be the people of the United States

Almost all law in the United States is State law.

Georgia is a part of a large empire; she is a member of the American Union. That Union has a Constitution which imposes limits on the legislatures of the several states.

In the fifteen years since Earl Warren became Chief Justice, the Court has brought about more social change than most Congresses and most presidents.

In our nation there is nothing in between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution

Though the Attorney General of the United States carries many responsibilities and undertakes many tasks, there can be none more important than the pursuit of civil rights on behalf of all the people of this country.

It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

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