Neal Kumar Katyal

So five answers on the Nixon precedent.

Tariffs are constitutionally special because our founders feared revenue raising unlike embargoes.

There was no Boston Embargo Party, but there was certainly a Boston Tea Party.

Oh, Justice Otamira, I wish I had an hour to talk about this with you, because this argument by the government is wrong every which way.

Heck yes, Justice Alito.

So, was the secret an improv coach who taught a lawyer to yes-hand the justices?

That would be a hell of a TED Talk, but no, that's not it either.

Liz taught me the power of connection.

And the fourth teacher, the fourth teacher, the one who taught me the most important thing, the thing we forget, to connect with yourself.

Enter Bob, my meditation coach.

Now, I am just about the last person to meditate.

I thought meditation was for people who own crystals.

I do not own crystals.

But...

Way before, way before the terrorist argument, I started working with Bob, and he had me 20 minutes a day focus on a single word.

He didn't send an app.

He actually rented an apartment a block from the court, and we worked together every day focusing on that word.

Bob didn't just give me a mantra.

He gave me a weapon.

When I walked into court that day, the static was cleared.