Neal Katyal
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Neal Katyal epitomizes The Strategist through his obsessive, multi-move sequencing of oral argument. The former Solicitor General does not merely answer questions, he engineers the questions he wants asked, treating courtroom dialogue as chess and mapping justices' interpretive identities in advance to steer outcomes, a practice he frames as the dark arts.
“U.S. born family. That's a pretty remarkable thing, but it's what this country is built on. And so that's what offended me so much about Guantanamo, this idea that only foreigners would get to go to Guantanamo.”
“I'm not even a speculator as to what she does. Option two is that he doesn't get off and then he runs for re-election. But that isn't a fully getting off either because particularly if all the evidence didn't come out, there may be yet another impeachment proceeding against it, including even for this very same offenses.”
“Yeah, and then it went to the House Judiciary Committee for a one day of hearings on what is an impeachable offense. We had four constitutional law scholars debate that question.”
“There is no laws. Exactly. And I had the benefit of arguing five big tech cases at the Supreme Court when I was in the government. So as a result, I said to myself, this is just strategically a really interesting area. It's also an area where I happen to know a lot of friends.”
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