Neal Katyal is the lead attorney representing Hawaii against President Trump, and he actually volunteered to defend Osama Bin Laden’s bodyguard in court.The suit Katyal is leading against President Trump attacks his executive order to postpone new visa issuances for travelers from six countries plagued with terrorism.
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Katyal is well known for being a potential nominee for the Supreme Court under the Obama administration, and for volunteering pro-bono to be Osama Bin Laden’s bodyguard and driver Salim Hamdan’s attorney.
Hamdan admittedly swore allegiance to Bin Laden and “faithfully served him from 1996 to 2001,” according to Weekly Standard.
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Weekly Standard continues:
He [Hamdan] was captured with two SA-7 shoulder-fired missiles in his trunk while driving to a battlefield in Afghanistan. (See below.) Moreover, only the most trusted al Qaeda personnel would be allowed to serve bin Laden for so long — protecting the terror master as he plotted to kill thousands of civilians.
Katyal won that case, arguing comparing Hamdan and other captured al Queda terrorists to regular, legal U.S. green card holders.
Katyal is now heading Hawaii’s suit against the temporary six-country travel ban. It’s rather obvious that a man who believes captured al Quada terrorists are innocent also thinks the travel ban is a disgrace.
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Free Beacon reports:
On Tuesday, Neal Katyal, a former acting solicitor general of the United States during the Obama administration, filed suit on behalf of the state of Hawaii against the Trump administration, seeking to block the president’s latest executive order.
Katyal, whose name was once floated as a possible Obama Supreme Court nominee, but whose consideration was ultimately withdrawn due to perceived trouble that his nomination would encounter in the Senate, argues in Hawaii’s filing that this new executive order suffers from the same legal problems of the original order.
Neal Katyal sued the U.S. government in 2006 on behalf of Osama Bin Laden’s bodyguard, Samir Hamdan in the landmark legal case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. In his arguments however, Katyal made several questionable arguments, including equating the criminal justice rights of legal U.S. green card holders to captured foreign al Qaeda terrorists under the military commission system at the time.
Katyal’s voluntary case to defend Hamdan is a disgusting mark on his reputation as a lawyer. He’s the perfect choice to take on the case against the travel ban as well.
Since he’s obviously not concerned with defending Americans from terrorists, he certainly has the right attitude the case against the travel ban needs.
