Lawfare Daily: Senator Menendez On Trial

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic checked in on the status of Senator Bob Menendez’s ongoing criminal trial in the Southern District of New York. Together with Dan Richman of Columbia Law School and Eric Columbus, who previously served as special litigation counsel at the U.S. House of Representatives’ Office of General Counsel, they discussed the challenges faced by prosecutors in bringing corruption charges against a sitting member of Congress.

The Justice Department alleges that Menendez took bribes in exchange for unregistered lobbying for the governments of Egypt and Qatar—among other incidents of unsavory behavior. But after the Supreme Court’s decision in McDonnell v. United States, and given the protections available to members of Congress under the Speech or Debate Clause, will prosecutors be able to make the charges stick?

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1:15.8	who was in some legal trouble.
1:18.1	And then secondly, some stuff involving Menendez's meanings and actions considering foreign aid to Egypt.
1:26.0	It's the Lawfair Podcast. I'm Quinta Jaresik, Senior Editor, with my fellow Law Fair Senior Editor Molly Reynolds, along with Dan
1:35.4	Richmond of Columbia Law School and Eric Columbus who previously served a
1:40.1	Special Litigation Council at the US House of Representatives Office of General
1:44.4	Council. I think the government's done a very nice job of all the facts here teasing
1:52.3	out how a number of the things that Menendez did arguably are
1:58.8	not legislative acts or something far short of it.
2:04.0	Today, we're talking about the ongoing corruption trial of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez.
2:11.0	Dan and Eric, thank you so much for joining us to talk about the only
2:14.9	prosecution at least that I know of that both involves a sitting senator and
2:18.8	literal gold bars. To begin with I think it would be useful to just have a brief overview of what
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