Cohen, Trump, and Campaign Finance Law

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🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to several crimes, including illegally making hush money payments to two women alleging affairs with then-candidate Trump. On this episode, campaign finance law experts Rick Hasen, a law professor at UC Irvine and co-editor of Election Law Journal, and Brad Smith, former chair of the FEC and founder of the Institute for Free Speech, debate the campaign finance laws at issue, explore precedents like the John Edwards case, and consider possible legal liability for President Trump. They also dive into other current election and campaign finance law issues, including the case involving Donald Trump Jr. Jeffrey Rosen hosts.

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0:46.4	AXI ios dot com I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:50.1	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress
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1:00.2	Recently, President Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for pleading guilty to several crimes including violations of campaign finance laws.
1:12.0	On today's podcast we're going to discuss those campaign finance
1:15.2	violations and there are possible implications for President Trump. And joining us
1:21.0	are two of America's leading election law and campaign finance experts,
1:25.4	great friends of the We The People Podcast, and I'm so honored to welcome both of you back.
1:30.2	Rick Hassan is Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California Irvine.
1:37.0	He was the founding co-editor of the Election Law Journal and Blogs of the Election Law Blog.
1:42.0	Rick, thank you so much for joining.
1:44.3	Great to be with you.
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