Lawfare Daily: Evaluating January 6 Prosecutions with Greg Rosen

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Greg Rosen, now an attorney at Rogers Joseph O’Donnell, spoke with James Pearce, Lawfare Legal Fellow, about his time prosecuting federal crimes in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. He focused mostly on the investigation and prosecution that followed the attack of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. He discussed how the U.S. Attorney’s Office carried out the largest investigation in the history of the country, how it handled the multiple investigative and logistical challenges the prosecutions posed, and how to think about the Supreme Court’s decision holding that the congressional obstruction count charged in many Jan. 6 cases was misapplied. Rosen also weighed in on the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s under the second Trump administration.

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1:32.9	Nobody watched what happened at the US Capitol, just ignoring individual defendants.
1:41.2	Nobody watched what happened and said, either this is okay or this doesn't
1:45.6	constitute a crime. The question was, how are we going to investigate this and do so in a fair and thorough
1:51.1	matter? It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm James Pierce, Lawfare Legal Fellow, with Greg Rosen,
1:58.0	an attorney at Rogers, Joseph O'Donnell, and recently the head of the capital
2:02.5	seeds section at the DC U.S. Attorney's Office.
2:06.5	I mean, it is the most sort of intricate and successful discovery project in department history,
2:13.0	and I venture to say in criminal history, and that is largely because of public servants who realize, you know, we one, wanted to get this right.
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