Neal Kumar Katyal

Ben says, you know, change the vowel.

Use an E instead of an O.

He says, what do you get to do?

And instantly, it pours out of me.

I get to defend the Constitution of the United States.

I get to, the son of immigrants, remind the country of what it's about.

I get to defend my parents' vision of America.

One letter, the terror didn't disappear, but it transformed into joy.

So was Ben the secret, an elite sports coach who teaches people about mindset?

No.

But he got me ready.

The second thing I needed was connection to information at scale.

I assembled the most relentless legal team in the country.

They stress-tested every argument until only the best one survived.

But I needed more.

I needed someone who is absolutely relentless.

I found Harvey.

Harvey reads the 200th tariff case the same way as he reads the first.

You know, a month before the argument, Harvey told me that I should expect a question from Justice Barrett about license fees, and it's almost verbatim what Harvey told me to predict and what Justice Barrett actually said at the argument.

So Harvey taught me peripheral vision, the idea of if you read a lot, you can see patterns and come up with stuff and anticipate the angles of attack before it arrives.