Katyal clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts at Hogan Lovells law firm before Roberts went to the Supreme Court.
Katyal now RUNS the appellate practice at Hogan Lovells that Roberts used to run.
Katyal 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 endorsed President Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in an op-ed to The New York Times.
In addition to Gorsuch, Katyal also spoke highly of President Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.[26] In multiple tweets that were cited by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in favor of Kavanaugh's confirmation,[27] Katyal praised Kavanaugh's "credentials [and] hardworking nature,"[28] and described his "mentoring and guidance" of female law clerks as "a model for all of us in the legal profession."[29] Katyal has also described Kavanaugh as "very gracious"[30] and "incredibly likable."[31] “It’s very hard for anyone who has worked with him, appeared before him, to frankly say a bad word about him,” Katyal observed during a July 2018 panel on Kavanaugh's nomination sponsored by The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank.
Katyal lavished praise on Amy Covid Barrett:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/former-obama-acting-solicitor-general-neal-katyal-calls-amy-coney-barrett-a-brilliant-and-lovely-person/
He is a self-described "extremist centrist".
He also argued that US Corporations should not be liable for child slavery:
Neal Katyal Argues U.S. Corporations Should Not Be Liable for Using Child Slaves Abroad, But SCOTUS Appears Unconvinced
Barack Obama’s former acting Solicitor General and current litigator Neal Katyal appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court during oral arguments on Tuesday to defend multinational and U.S.-based corporations from liability for using child slaves abroad for profit.
Throughout the proceedings, most of the nine justices appeared skeptical of Katyal’s arguments on behalf of his corporate clients. But attorney Paul Hoffman, representing several former child slaves, often struggled before the high court himself–leaving the ultimate adjudication of the likely-to-be influential case anyone’s guess.
In two consolidated cases stylized as Nestlé USA v. Doe I and Cargill, Inc. v. Doe I, former child slaves forced to work on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast sued the companies in their corporate forms for aiding and abetting slave labor under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) of 1798.
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