A January 6 Anniversary
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It’s January 6—the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. There has been a lot of activity in those two years to account for what happened on that terrible day.
To go over it all, Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare executive editor Natalie Orpett and Lawfare senior editors Scott R. Anderson, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff. They discussed what has been done across the many diverse areas in which we have sought accountability for Jan. 6—to do justice, to tell the story, and to make legal and policy changes to prevent this from ever happening again. They talked about criminal investigations and prosecutions, the Jan. 6 committee, congressional storytelling, the legislative process, what is left to do, and what’s been left undone. And they consider a big question: are we safer now than we were then?
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.0 | You know, efforts to intimidate poll workers, |
| 0:37.0 | to intimidate people from going to vote. |
| 0:39.0 | We saw a lot of that in the run-up to the midterm. |
| 0:42.0 | So I think that, you know, these problems are still very, very much present. |
| 0:47.0 | But overall, I feel better now than I did as of, you know, November 1st, 2022. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast January 6th, 2023. |
| 1:03.0 | Yes, it's January 6th, which means it is an anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. |
| 1:11.0 | In fact, it is the second anniversary of the insurrection. |
| 1:15.0 | And there has been a lot of activity in those two years to account for that terrible day. |
| 1:23.0 | To go over it all, we thought we would bring together the LawFair crew, |
| 1:29.0 | Natalie Orpet, our executive editor, and Scott R. Anderson, |
| 1:35.0 | Quinted Jurassic, and Roger Parloff, senior editors, all joined me in the virtual jungle studio to discuss |
| 1:44.0 | what has been done across the many diverse areas in which we have sought accountability for January 6th |
| 1:54.0 | to do justice, to tell the story, and to make policy adjustments. |
| 2:00.0 | We talked about the criminal process. |
| 2:02.0 | We talked about the January 6th committee and the congressional storytelling process. |
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