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
Counting the Electoral Votes
It is electoral count voting day, and members of Congress in a joint session will open and count the electoral votes and declare Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the winners of the election. It will not be...
6 Jan 202146min
The Role of the Pardon Attorney
Jack Goldsmith sat down with Margaret Love, the United States Pardon Attorney in the Justice Department from 1990 to 1997. They discussed Donald Trump's very controversial pattern of pardons and commu...
5 Jan 202139min
Dr. Geoffrey Gresh on 'To Rule Eurasia's Waves'
Alexander Vindman sat down with Dr. Geoffrey Gresh to discuss his new book, "To Rule Eurasia's Waves: The New Great Power Competition at Sea." Dr. Gresh is a professor of International Security Studie...
4 Jan 202147min
Bye Bye, 2020
It is the last podcast of the year, and we are giving 2020 an appropriate send-off. Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare executive editor Susan Hennessey, managing editor Quinta Jurecic, senior edito...
30 Dec 202052min
Bob Bauer on the White House Counsel in an Antidemocratic Moment
Bob Bauer is a former White House counsel, and he has been leading the legal response for the Biden campaign and transition to the unprecedented onslaught of efforts on the part of the president to ov...
29 Dec 202037min
