Dan Hemel and Gerard Magliocca on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment
In the wake of the January 6 mob attack on the Capitol, some have called for the invocation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Section 3 disqualifies anyone who has engaged in rebellion or insurrecti...
19 Jan 202147min
David Kris on the NSA Annex
The NSA this week released a long-awaited update to its signals intelligence policy, which had not been updated since 1988. David Kris, former assistant attorney general for the National Security Divi...
15 Jan 202144min
Jonathan Zittrain on the Great Deplatforming
Yesterday, January 13, the House of Representatives impeached President Trump a second time for encouraging the violent riot in the Capitol Building on January 6. And yet, the impeachment is probably ...
14 Jan 20211h
Late Impeachments
Jack Goldsmith sat down with Brian Kalt, a law professor at Michigan State University, to talk about an important issue in the news this week: late impeachments. In the current context, the issue of a...
13 Jan 202140min
The Incredible Vanishing President
Donald Trump is headed for a second impeachment, a whole lot of people have been charged in federal and local courts in Washington, and an even larger number are probably about to be. What's more, the...
12 Jan 202151min
Jamie Gorelick on Merrick Garland and the Justice Department Team
Jamie Gorelick was the deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno. In that capacity, she hired as her top aide and adjutant one Merrick Garland. This was befo...
11 Jan 202140min
Who Let the Barbarians Through the Gates?
The storming of the Capitol on Wednesday was a catastrophic failure of protective law enforcement, as rioters overran Capitol Police barricades and gained access to a building that a lot of police wer...
8 Jan 202146min
Emergency Edition: Insurrection at the Capitol
Today a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol following a rally at which the president spoke. Congressional efforts to count the electoral votes were suspended, and an armed standoff, in which a...
7 Jan 202150min
