Roger Parloff on the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Prosecutions
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Roger Parloff is a senior editor at Lawfare and the author of the recent article, “What Do—and Will—the Criminal Prosecutions of the Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters Tell Us?” It is a deep dive on the demographics, the charges and the adjudications of the Capitol riot cases so far. Roger sat down with Benjamin Wittes on Lawfare Live to talk about who the Capitol rioters were, why some of them have been allowed to plead out to misdemeanors, what characterizes the misdemeanor pleas and who is left among the bigger fish.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:34.1 | But my impression is that among the new the arrests that are being made now, there's still |
| 0:39.4 | arrests, you know, the number goes up every couple days. |
| 0:45.4 | There's a much higher percentage of felonies among the new arrests, too, because they're |
| 0:50.7 | finding, you know, the people that assaulted the officers. |
| 0:54.2 | They've got, you know, the FBI has a list of, I think, 350 people, they're still looking |
| 0:59.7 | for it. |
| 1:00.7 | And the people that I think in the last 10 days, I've seen six new arrests and I think |
| 1:06.5 | four of them were for assault against law enforcement, something like that. |
| 1:10.9 | So it looks like it's more, it's a higher percentage of felonies now. |
| 1:17.3 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast November 15th, 2021. |
| 1:25.6 | Roger Parloff is a senior editor at LawFair and the author of the recent article, What |
| 1:32.4 | Do and Will, the criminal prosecutions of the January 6th Capitol rioters tell us. |
| 1:39.8 | It is a deep dive on the demographics, the charges and the adjudications of the Capitol |
| 1:47.4 | riot cases so far. |
| 1:50.3 | Roger joined me and a live LawFair audience on Friday in the virtual jungle studio for |
| 1:56.8 | a Q&A with LawFair material supporters. |
| 2:01.1 | We talked about who the Capitol rioters were, why some of them have been allowed to plead |
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