Judge J. Michael Luttig on January 6 and the Indictment of President Donald Trump

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Earlier this month, President Trump was indicted in federal court in Washington, D.C. for conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential elections. Judge J. Michael Luttig joins Jeffrey Rosen for a conversation about the constitutional and historical questions raised by the indictment. Resources: Jeffrey Rosen, “The Founders Anticipated the Threat of Trump,” Wall Street Journal (Aug. 4, 2023) “Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig on Jan. 6 indictment and American democracy,” Washington Post (Aug. 9, 2023) Indictment, United States of America v. Donald Trump, Department of Justice (Aug. 1, 2023) “How to Prevent Another January 6th,” We the People podcast (June 16, 2022) “The Mob, the Capitol, and the Constitution” We the People podcast (Jan. 7, 2021) Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.  Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr.    Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.    You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library.

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0:00.0	Earlier this month President Trump was indicted in federal court in Washington DC
0:05.2	for conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential elections.
0:11.3	Hello friends, I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National
0:15.2	Constitution Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of
0:18.9	constitutional debate. The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase
0:26.4	awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.
0:31.1	I wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal last week offering some historical
0:34.5	perspective for the latest federal indictment of President Trump. We're
0:38.3	posting that piece on the podcast resource page and because I've already weighed in
0:42.2	on the topic,
0:43.2	we're departing from our usual we the people format this week
0:46.1	for a conversation about the indictment with Judge J Michael Lutick.
0:50.2	We'll focus on the questions I raised in the piece,
0:52.5	including what would the framers think of the indictment
0:55.4	and the future of American democracy.
0:57.7	We'll return to our usual debate format
0:59.5	and host a range of diverse perspectives
1:01.6	on these important questions in the months ahead.
1:05.2	Judge J Michael Lutig is a member of the National Constitution Center's Board of Trustees.
1:10.0	He served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
1:13.2	He previously served as counselor and senior advisor
1:16.3	to the Boeing Company, as assistant attorney general
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