
Emergency Edition: The Trump Jan. 6 Indictment
The Lawfare Podcast
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The Justice Department's Understanding of the Clear Statement Role of the President
A 1995 memo from Walter Dellinger sets out the Justice Department's understanding of the clear statement role of we've been as we've been discussing it. I personally would make the case that interfering in the electoral count in an effort to unlawfully retain control of the presidency when it's obviously been won by the opposing candidate is not within the presidentialWithin the president's constitutional role and applying the statutes to the president in that context would not limit that role.
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