The Executive and the Rule of Law

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The controversy over the sentencing of President Trump’s former associate Roger Stone has raised larger questions about the role of the Department of Justice, presidential power, and the rule of law including: Should the president be able to influence sentencing in individual cases? What level of control should he have over DOJ? And, more broadly, how should the president exercise power? Host Jeffrey Rosen dives into those questions with Professor John Yoo, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department, and Professor Kim Wehle, former assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. Need a refresher on the Stone sentencing controversy? Here’s a timeline of events from ABC News. Questions or comments about the podcast? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome
0:07.9	to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:11.6	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress
0:16.7	to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people. In light of the recent sentencing of President Trump's former associate Roger Stone,
0:27.0	this episode of We the People will explore
0:30.0	the Department of Justice, the presidency, and the Rule of Law.
0:35.0	How independent, if at all, should the Department of Justice be from the President?
0:41.0	And what does the rule of law require joining us to discuss these
0:45.4	crucially important questions are two of America's leading experts on the
0:49.4	Department of Justice the rule of law and the Constitution and it is so wonderful to convene both of them.
0:55.1	John U is the Emmanuel S Heller Professor of Law
0:58.1	at Berkeley Law and the Director of the Korea Law Center,
1:01.3	the California Constitution Center,
1:03.3	and the Law School's program in public law and public policy.
1:07.5	He served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General
1:09.8	in the Office of Legal Counsel
1:11.2	at the US Department of Justice and his forthcoming book
1:14.8	coming out over the summer is defender-in-chief, Trump's fight for presidential
1:20.3	power. John it is wonderful to have you back on the show.
1:23.8	Oh, Jeff, thanks a lot.
1:24.8	It's great to be back.
1:26.7	And Kimberly Whaley is an author, lawyer, a media commentator, and professor of law at the University
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