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Nov 2, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Neal Katyal
The biggest risk our democracy faces this election is whether the votes cast will even matter. Any number of scenarios could play out. Ballots could be (and in fact have already been) lit on fire, or the courts could intervene to throw out votes. But the possibility we should fear the most is the one we still have a chance to prevent: the United States Congress overturning the election.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Neal Katyal
En 2020, cuando Donald Trump cuestionó los resultados de las elecciones, los tribunales rechazaron decisivamente sus intentos una y otra vez. En 2024, el poder judicial podría ser incapaz de salvar nuestra democracia. Los renegados ya no son principiantes. Han pasado los últimos cuatro años haciéndose profesionales, diseñando meticulosamente una estrategia en múltiples frentes -legislaturas estatales, el Congreso, poderes ejecutivos y jueces electos- para anular cualquier elección reñida.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Neal Katyal
In 2020, when Donald Trump questioned the results of the election, the courts decisively rejected his efforts, over and over again. In 2024, the judicial branch may be unable to save our democracy. The rogues are no longer amateurs. They have spent the last four years going pro, meticulously devising a strategy across multiple fronts - state legislatures, Congress, executive branches and elected judges - to overturn any close election.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
msnbc.com | Neal Katyal
This is an adapted excerpt from the Aug. 26 episode of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell."On Monday, federal prosecutors filed a brief urging an appeals court to reverse Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case against Donald Trump. Last month, Cannon, a Trump appointee, tossed out the case and ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and funded. Now, some things in the law are open to debate and reasonable disagreement and others are not.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Neal Katyal
Judge Aileen Cannon's decision to throw out serious national-security criminal charges in the classified documents case against Donald Trump is legally unsupported, ignores decades of precedent and is deeply dangerous.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
msnbc.com | Neal Katyal
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent in the Trump immunity ruling contained language unlike anything I've ever seen before in a Supreme Court opinion:“Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law. Moving forward, however, all former Presidents will be cloaked in such immunity.
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May 13, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Neal Katyal
Over the past month, in two courtrooms some two hundred and fifty miles apart, the government was hearing arguments in two of the most consequential court cases in American history. In New York, at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, a judge was presiding over the first criminal trial of a former U.S. President.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
time.com | Neal Katyal |Blake Lively |Kamala D. Harris |Daniel Kaluuya
By Neal KatyalApril 17, 2024 7:06 AM EDTJack Smith is the rarely-seen-in-public special counsel overseeing two different prosecutions of former President Donald Trump, one for allegedly mishandling national security information, another for his actions surrounding the 2020 election. Until a year ago, prosecuting a former President wasn’t a thing, but Smith (along with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and Fulton County, Georgia, DA Fani Willis) has made it so.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
threadreaderapp.com | Neal Katyal
#ThreadJose Mourinho to RCB 2020(What could've been)The man, the myth, the legendThe one who has worked at prestigious clubs around the world, winning everything, now has found interest in another sport. After being out for last 10 months, he's took interest in Cricket. And his next project? Royal Challengers Bangalore . Chinnaswamy applauds and welcomes him. Mourinho in his first presser"I'm not from the bottle but I think I'm special one. RCB have never won title in THREE finals...THREE..
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
on.substack.com | Hanne Winarsky |Darryl Cooper |Neal Katyal |Virginia Sole-Smith
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