Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon, former solicitor general Neal Katyal scoffed at the idea the Supreme Court would accept an appeal from Donald Trump's lawyers about presidential immunity after they are expected to lose at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Speaking with MSNBC host Jen Psaki, Katyal was asked to use his history of speaking before the nation's highest court to predict how it will all play out.
"You have argued, you spent a lot of time in the Supreme Court, arguing cases, thinking about the Supreme Court a lot of time. What is your thought on here and what could happen?" host Psaki pressed.
''I don't think the Supreme Court is likely to hear the case, Jen," he replied. "I mean, Trump's claims are so unhinged that the president can do whatever he wants and murder people with Seal Team Six— this is crazy."
"The Supreme Court, I don't think, is going to have much appetite for this," he continued. "So I'm looking for three things. I'm looking for the rationale of the Court of Appeals decision, the timing of the Court of Appeals decision, and then technically, do they stay the mandate? Do they allow the March 4th trial date to proceed as is."
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"I'm suspecting that they're going to do all of those things and basically hew closely to what Judge [Tanya] Chutkan found already, which means that this trial can go forward. I think it's doubtful at this moment," he added.
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