Andrew Coan on 'Prosecuting the President'
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🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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As the nation braces for the forthcoming end of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into President Trump and his associates, The Lawfare Podcast decided to take a look back at the complete history of special prosecutors.
Benjamin Wittes sat down with Andrew Coan, a professor of law at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. Coan recently published "Prosecuting the President," which traces the history of how special prosecutors and counsels work to keep the executive branch accountable for its actions. Ben and Andrew discussed the book, the Teapot Dome Scandal, the Whiskey Ring, and what all of that might mean for the future of special counsels.
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.0 | The sort of key lesson of the heat-buttum scandal for special prosecutors today is the importance of democratic politics, |
| 0:44.0 | the fact that the American people reelected large Republican majorities to both houses of Congress and reelected Calvin Kool-Aid in 1924, |
| 0:54.0 | despite the cloud of scandal over the Republican party and the Kool-Aid administration at the time, |
| 1:02.0 | was a really big impediment to the ability of the special prosecutors to follow these charges to their logical conclusion. |
| 1:09.0 | The other really important takeaway here is the importance of political norms, |
| 1:16.0 | why spread, why be shared standards for presidential conduct, |
| 1:22.0 | which enables the American people to have it, |
| 1:25.0 | various subsequent points in the American history, |
| 1:27.0 | enable the people to make judgments and hold the president accountable for misconduct, |
| 1:32.0 | even if it might happen to be a president that they like. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm Michaela Fogo, and this is the LawFair podcast, March 12, 2019. |
| 1:42.0 | As the nation braces for the forthcoming end of special counsel Robert Muller's investigation into President Trump and his associates, |
| 1:50.0 | the LawFair podcast decided to take a look back at the complete history of special prosecutors. |
| 1:56.0 | Benjamin Wittis sat down with Andrew Cohn, a professor of law at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. |
| 2:04.0 | Cohn recently published Prosecuting the President, which traces the history of how special prosecutors and councils work to keep the executive branch accountable for its actions. |
| 2:15.0 | Then in Andrew discussed the book, The Tea-Bot Dome Scandal, The Whiskey Ring, |
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