Welcome back to Talking Feds, a prosecutor's round table that brings together prominent

former federal officials for a dynamic discussion of the most important legal topics of the

day.

I'm Harry Littman.

I'm a former United States attorney and deputy assistant attorney general and a current

Washington Post columnist.

We are here this week in Washington DC to take a series of podcast episodes in front

of a live audience just blocks from the White House and the Congress.

All of this thanks to our gracious hosts at George Washington University Law School

and our co-sponsors for this episode in particular the American Constitution Society.

All right, so in pursuing articles of impeachment the House of Representatives has chosen

wisely I think to focus on a narrow band of conduct by President Trump that amounts

to a nearly airtight fact pattern and an overwhelming case, isolated case though of abuse of presidential

powers for personal advantage.

But of course critics of the administration see this little chapter as an extension

of a three year assault on the rule of law, democratic institutions and basic American

values.

And today we turn to another such assault one that will certainly be counted as among

the administration's moral and political failings when the ledger is counted.

And that's its treatment of migrants and migrant families.

We have a superbly qualified circle of public interest advocates and scholars to break

it down for us and explain the legal policy and moral repercussions of the administration's

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