Lawfare Daily: Behind the Scenes of Lawfare's Trump New York Trial Coverage
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The first criminal trial of a former president of the United States began in April and reached a verdict on May 30. As Lawfare readers and listeners know, we covered the trial in great detail. Normally based in Washington, D.C., we opened a temporary “bureau” in New York City so that we could report on each and every day of the proceedings from inside the courtroom. We produced written and oral dispatches every day on top of our usual deep-dive analysis of the legal issues at stake. So we’ve talked a lot about the trial itself. This time, we’re talking about the experience of covering the trial. Executive Editor Natalie Orpett spoke with Legal Fellow Anna Bower, Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic, Managing Editor Tyler McBrien, and Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes about how it all worked, why Lawfare’s coverage was unique, and what it was like to actually be there.
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| 0:31.8 | He was just very different seeing it in person and seeing it at its full scale for all the |
| 0:37.8 | sliminess and sleaziness that was involved in this trial. |
| 0:42.0 | It's the Law Fair Podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Natalie Orpet, |
| 0:46.0 | executive editor of Law Fair, |
| 0:48.0 | with my colleagues, |
| 0:49.0 | Legal Fellow Anna Bauer, |
| 0:51.0 | Senior Editor Quinta Jurassic, managing editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittis. |
| 0:57.0 | The idea was to have one group of people that were really doing the chronicling and then one group of people |
| 1:06.0 | that was boring in on issues that needed more attention. |
| 1:12.0 | About seven weeks ago, Lawfair opened our quote unquote New York Bureau to cover the criminal |
| 1:17.6 | trial of Donald Trump. |
| 1:19.8 | Some combination of us sat through every single day of proceedings from pretrial motions and |
| 1:24.9 | jury selection through the verdict. Today we're talking about how it all worked, why |
| 1:30.2 | our coverage was different, and what it was like to be there. |
| 1:34.4 | So to get us started, I want to hear from each of you two sentences or less. |
| 1:40.0 | How would you describe the experience of covering the first criminal trial of a former president of the United States? |
| 1:47.0 | Anna Bauer. |
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