White House Pressure, the Justice Department and the Election

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🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The majority staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee has issued an interim report, entitled “Subverting Justice: How the Former President and His Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the 2020 Election.” A lot of it covers ground we knew about previously, but it contains a raft of new details about the president's pressure on the Justice Department to support his election fraud claims, the resignation of a U.S. attorney in Georgia, and the bizarre attempt to install as acting attorney general a Justice Department official who might actually support the president's ambitions.

To go over it all, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare senior editors Alan Rozenshtein and Quinta Jurecic, and Lawfare associate editor Bryce Klehm, who has been reading all of the depositions in the matter. They talked about what the committee found, what aspects of it are new and what we might do about this dramatic turn of events.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:31.6	Clark gets out of the Oval Office and he says to everyone else there to
0:39.3	Rosen, to Donnie U, Patsyplone, he says, I know we were all in there just doing
0:44.6	what we thought was best for the country, so no hard feelings.
0:48.1	And they all just look at him completely dumbfounded.
0:50.2	So it's not even clear that he understands the ramifications of what he was proposing.
0:56.6	I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast special edition October 9th, 2021.
1:05.7	The majority staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee has issued an interim report entitled
1:13.0	subverting justice, how the former president and his allies pressured DOJ to overturn the
1:20.8	2020 election.
1:23.0	A lot of it covers ground we knew about before but it contains a raft of new detail about
1:31.4	the president's pressure on the Justice Department to support his election fraud claims.
1:38.0	The resignation of a U.S. attorney in Georgia and the bizarre attempt to install as acting
1:45.6	attorney general, a Justice Department official who might actually support the president's
1:51.8	ambitions.
1:53.5	To go over it all, we convened in the virtual jungle studio, Alan Rosenstein and Quinted
2:00.2	Jurassic, LawFair senior editors and Bryce Clem, LawFair associate editor who has been
2:07.8	reading all the depositions in the matter.
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