Unfinished Business at the Department of Justice
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
It's been a busy few weeks at the Justice Department. There was a major indictment of the chair of the former president's inaugural committee. There have been new policies promulgated on subpoenas to media organizations and on Justice Department White House contacts. There's been a decision not to defend a member of Congress for his role in the Jan. 6 uprising, and there are questions about what positions the Justice Department is going to take as the Jan. 6 committee begins its work. To talk about it all, Lawfare executive editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes, former Justice Department official Carrie Cordero, now with the Center for a New American Security, and Chuck Rosenberg, who served at both DOJ and FBI.
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| 0:29.0 | There is nothing about a policy that binds a corrupt president, |
| 0:37.0 | and that's the danger. |
| 0:39.0 | Another corrupt president can easily ignore any policy, |
| 0:43.0 | can also ignore any statute, not lawfully, but practically. |
| 0:48.0 | And so what Mr. Garland is doing is reiterating the expectations |
| 0:53.0 | of the Department of Justice and the longstanding practices |
| 0:56.0 | of the Department of Justice. |
| 0:58.0 | But in no way would it bind another president, Trump? |
| 1:02.0 | In fact, it doesn't even bind President Biden, |
| 1:05.0 | other than that he seems to be a good and decent man, |
| 1:08.0 | understands the norms, understands the historical practices. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittis, and this is the LawFair podcast August 6th, 2021. |
| 1:18.0 | It's been a busy few weeks at the Justice Department. |
| 1:22.0 | There was a major indictment of the chair of the former president's |
| 1:26.0 | inaugural committee. |
| 1:28.0 | There have been new policies promulgated on subpoenas to media organizations |
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