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Yeah-yeah, Brian WILLIAMS, whom I dubbed "The Wedding Cake Guy" years ago, had his peccadillo, but daily grinds out erudition, and last night he had a segment with Neal KATYAL that was absolutely *gripping*. First, going over SHITLER's being implicated even more in the COHEN-DANIELS court papers, but then for a "personal note" : Wedding Cake asked KATYAL for his personal reaction to SHITLER's "send her back" chanting mob. His reaction, as the son of immigrants, predictably, cut to the bone.
But for this topic: Wedding asked him what three questions he would have for MUELLER next week. He said that, since SHITLER has bruited it about that MULLER found NO collusion, NO obstruction, and completely EXONERATED him, the only questions needed are:
2- Did you find obstruction?
3- Did you exonerate him?
They went on to say that the answers are in the report, but having MUELLER say it (Yes. Yes. No.) would nail it down.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Katyal
Neal Kumar Katyal (born March 12, 1970) is an American lawyer and partner at Hogan Lovells, as well as Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center.[2][3] Katyal served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States from May 2010[4] until June 2011. Previously, Katyal served in as an attorney in the Solicitor General's office as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the U.S. Justice Department.
Katyal has argued more Supreme Court cases than any other minority group lawyer in American history.[5] In 2017, American Lawyer Magazine named Katyal its coveted Grand Prize Litigator of the Year for both the 2016 and 2017 years.[6] ....
... After receiving his J.D. degree in 1995, Katyal clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. ....
... In 1999 he drafted special counsel regulations, which have guided the Mueller investigation of the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.[10] He also served as Vice-President Al Gore's co-counsel in Bush v. Gore of 2000, and represented the deans of most major private law schools in Grutter v. Bollinger, the University of Michigan affirmative-action case that the Supreme Court decided in 2003.
While serving at the Justice Department, Katyal argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court, including his successful defense (by an 8-1 decision) of the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Northwest Austin v. Holder.[11] Katyal also successfully argued in favor of the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act and won a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court defending former Attorney General John Ashcroft against alleged abuses of civil liberties in the war on terror in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd. Katyal is also the only head of the Solicitor General's office to argue in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.[12]
As Acting Solicitor General, Katyal succeeded Elena Kagan, whom President Barack Obama chose to replace the retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens.[13] ....
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Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)I hope Congress members are taking notes
spanone
(135,832 posts)chowder66
(9,070 posts)whether to pursue charges based on your investigation?
If not, then why did you include the following?
"The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President's corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law."
If so, then do you disagree with Barr's summary?
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)Hope he gets a prominent role in a Democratic White House come 2021.
He also promoted the idea of the House defunding the Dept of Justice until they complied with House oversight requests right after the Mueller Report came out.
UTUSN
(70,695 posts)definitely - he's 49 years old right now, so 51 (in 2021) would be a great age for him to step in there for 30 or more years.
I'm assuming that as soon as we get a Democrat in the WH, Ginsburg and then Breyer will likely step down.