Lame-duck executions

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🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Why the Justice Department is pushing executions before the inauguration. The secret centrist revolt that could mean a second stimulus. And, how a top official tasked with helping Americans through the pandemic could benefit from hundreds of evictions.

Under the Trump administration, the Justice Department is pursuing several federal executions during a lame-duck period ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration. Reporter Matt Zapotosky explains.

Last week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers released a $908 billion relief proposal. But, as reporter Jeff Stein explains,

not everyone is on board.

Hundreds of families living on property owned in part by senior White House adviser Jared Kushner are facing eviction during a pandemic. Jonathon O’Connell reports on how the management company associated with Kushner is filing to remove tenants who are behind on rent by Dec. 31.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, this is Ben Terris coming from the Washington Post.
0:09.0	Hi, Jeff. This is Winfrey Oprah.
0:11.0	Hi there. How are you?
0:13.0	It's Lisa Bones, coming from the Post.
0:14.0	This is Post Reports. I'm Martin Powers.
0:19.0	It's Monday, December 7.
0:24.0	Today, lame duck executions, stimulus talks on Capitol Hill,
0:29.0	and the people who could be evicted at the end of the month.
0:36.0	We have to bring back the death penalty.
0:39.0	They have to pay the ultimate price.
0:43.0	They have to pay the ultimate price. They can't do this.
0:47.0	They can't do this to our country.
0:49.0	The Justice Department is scheduling several executions.
0:54.0	Kind of in the couple of months here, we have before former Vice President Biden,
0:58.0	now President-elect, Biden's inauguration.
1:01.0	Joe Biden opposes the death penalty even for cops who...
1:05.0	I mean, duck, you have to see, even for these cop killers who go around the predators, they murdered children.
1:12.0	This is drawing a lot of criticism from the anti-death penalty advocates,
1:15.0	civil liberty advocates who say that the Attorney General Bill Barr is sort of trying to rush these executions through
1:22.0	before a new administration comes in and might take a different posture towards the death penalty.
1:31.0	I'm Matt Sapatowski. I'm a National Security Reporter who covers the Justice Department for the post.
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