Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath - The Aftermath S2E5 - With Liberty and Justice for Some - Podcast Addict
Listen to Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath - The Aftermath S2E5 - With Liberty and Justice for Some by Lawfare & Goat Rodeo on Podcast Addict. The fate of Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 prisoners are intertwined. The prisoners' biggest hope for freedom is if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, takes office and makes the federal cases go away. But the people who stormed the Capitol committed straightforward crimes that were easier to investigate, easier to indict, easier to prove. Three years after Jan. 6, the story of how t
Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath - The Aftermath S2E4 - The Hidden Insurrection - Podcast Addict
It’s December 2020. Donald Trump continues to deny that he has lost the election. He and his inner circle are working feverishly to try to overturn it while Trump is getting more and more irate. Then, on Dec. 21, he meets a man named Jeffrey Clark. Suddenly, the full might of the Justice Department is within reach. And he plans to use it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv
The Aftermath • The Aftermath S2E3 - #StormtheCapitol • Podcast Addict
Social media was key to Jan. 6. End to end. It was key to gathering the crowd that stormed the Capitol. It was key to generating the sentiment that led people to drop their lives to come to Washington willing to commit crimes. It was key to sending them home when the deed was done. Of course, we’re all on social media. But how does social media propel people to action, even
Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath • The Aftermath S2E2 - Lawyers for the Coup • Podcast Addict
In December 2020, The President and his advisors are still fighting to overturn the results of November’s presidential election. Then, in the middle of the month, a lawyer in Wisconsin sends a memo to the president’s legal team. This memo marks the beginning of a scheme that works its way through state legislatures and the halls of Congress, then to Trump himself. It is a schem
The Aftermath- Episode 5: Who Tells Your Story? • Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath - via Podcast Addict
In this fifth episode of The Aftermath, we explore another aspect of Congress’s response to Jan. 6: efforts to create an investigative body to find out what had happened. Proposals for a national commission began the day after the attack and continued to gain traction with support from both Democrats and Republicans. After a months-long negotiation, the House passed a bill establishing a bipartisan national commission on the model of the 9/11 Commission, which had conducted a widely-respected investigation of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. But by the time the bill came to the floor, the political winds had shifted, and Senate Republicans ensured its ultimate failure. This led, perhaps surprisingly, to the creation of the now-famous Jan. 6 Select Committee—which was no one’s first choice. But why did it come to this? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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