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WaPo: "Neal Katyal's TED talk spins a remarkable tale."
"The implication that McConnell put me up to writing the piece is simply false."
Josh Blackman | 5.10.2026 11:51 AM
Neal Katyal at Burning Man. It is unclear if Harvey AI powered the propeller on his hat.
The fallout from Neal Katyal's TED Talk continues. I have received messages from judges, Supreme Court practitioners, members of the Supreme Court press corps, law professors, law students, and more. The universal consensus is that Katyal's performance was a complete and total embarrassment. Usually my takedowns infuriate half the crowd and enrapture the other half. But for Katyal, the verdict is unanimous.
One of the more bizarre aspects of the talk is that Katyal took a shot at Judge Michael McConnell. Katyal also suggested that McConnell lobbied Jason Willick of the Washington Post to write the column urging the former judge to argue the case before the Supreme Court.
Three weeks before that argument, one of my own teammates decided to try and take me down so that he could argue the case. He campaigned, he lobbied, he made calls. Just a few days before the argument, about two weeks, The Washington Post........