Jacob Schulz on Seditious Conspiracy
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It's been a big week for the seditious conspiracy statute, which has long been on the books, quietly forbidding violent interference with the lawful functions of the United States government. But on 60 Minutes this weekend, the former chief prosecutor supervising the January 6 investigation hinted not too subtly that the seditious conspiracy statute might come out of obscurity and enter into action. Benjamin Wittes sat down with Jacob Schulz, Lawfare's deputy managing editor who has written a series of articles for Lawfare on recent deployments of the seditious conspiracy statute, to talk through the law's recent enforcement history.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.9 | In 1954, there were members, four members of a Puerto Rican nationalist group and they |
| 0:39.9 | burst into Congress and started shooting into into Congress, active session of Congress. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm Benjamin Whitteson. |
| 0:47.9 | This is the LawFair podcast March 24th, 2021. |
| 0:53.6 | It's been a big week for the Seditious Conspiracy Statute, which has long been on the books |
| 0:59.9 | quietly forbidding the violence interference with the lawful functions of the United States |
| 1:05.8 | government. |
| 1:07.3 | But on 60 minutes this weekend, the former chief prosecutor supervising the January |
| 1:13.1 | 6th investigation hinted not to subtly that the Seditious Conspiracy Statute might come |
| 1:20.7 | out of obscurity and enter into action. |
| 1:25.0 | This has prompted a flurry of discussion of the statute and we happen to have on LawFair |
| 1:31.6 | staff a gentleman who has spent a fair bit of time researching the recent enforcement history |
| 1:38.6 | of the law. |
| 1:40.2 | That's deputy managing editor Jacob Schultz who has written a series of articles for LawFair |
| 1:45.5 | on recent deployments of the Seditious Conspiracy Statute. |
| 1:51.1 | One of them involves an attack on the Capitol actually. |
| 1:53.7 | Back in the 1950s, one of them involves the blind cleric who tried to blow up the World |
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