Chatter: Covering the January 6th Trials with Roger Parloff
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Since joining Lawfare in November 2021, Roger Parloff has been a constant presence at the January 6th trials. Now based in Washington, D.C, he had, earlier in his career, served as a staff writer for Fortune and American Lawyer Magazine, and has been published in The New York Times, Yahoo Finance, ProPublica, New York, NewYorker.com, and Air Mail News. As a senior editor at Lawfare, he's focused on January 6 related matters, including covering the more than 1,000 federal criminal cases that have been filed while also keeping up on the pending investigations of higher-ups.
In his conversation with Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare’s editor in chief and this week’s Chatter guest host, Roger talks about giving live play-by-play of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers trials, the Venue Transfer Motions filed by many Jan. 6th defendants, the other journalists and "sedition hunters" who have been crucial in gathering information and reporting on the Jan. 6th cases, and more.
Parloff’s latest essay on Lawfare on this subject is entitled: “Should Nine Oath Keepers Receive Terror-Enhanced Sentences?”
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | This is chatter. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm Benjamin Wittes, LawFair's editor-in-chief. |
| 0:41.1 | This week on chatter, LawFair's senior editor Roger Parloff on covering the January 6th |
| 0:48.7 | trials. |
| 0:52.0 | If you don't have the resources, maybe you don't need to charge 500 misdemeanor cases. |
| 0:58.8 | If something has to go by the wayside, I would think maybe the nonviolent misdemeanor cases |
| 1:05.8 | rather than crump. |
| 1:09.2 | The only hope they have is your unilification, which is why they want desperately to move |
| 1:14.5 | the case someplace else. |
| 1:16.6 | They want to get a trial where even though they're guilty, somebody will disregard the law |
| 1:22.4 | and the facts. |
| 1:26.1 | If the Republican is elected, probably all these things go away. |
| 1:31.9 | If Trump is elected, all these things go away. |
| 1:35.3 | And so we don't have lots of time. |
| 1:43.5 | You are currently covering January 6th trials and litigations for LawFair. |
| 1:54.2 | And I want to come back to that presently. |
| 1:58.2 | But I want to start if I could with how you got into the business of legal reporting |
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