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Lawfare Live: Discussing the Supreme Court's Fischer Decision

Benjamin Wittes, Roger Parloff, Quinta Jurecic
Friday, June 28, 2024, 11:46 AM
Join the Lawfare team today for a discussion of the Supreme Court's decision to weaken the use of an obstruction charge against Jan. 6 defendants

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Today at 3 p.m. ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Quinta Jurecic and Roger Parloff for a live discussion of the Supreme Court's opinion released this morning in Fischer v. U.S., narrowing the interpretation of an obstruction statute used by the Department of Justice to charge over 300 Jan. 6 defendants, including former President Trump.

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Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
Roger Parloff is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. For 12 years, he was the main legal correspondent at Fortune Magazine. His work has also been published in ProPublica, The New York Times, New York, NewYorker.com, Yahoo Finance, Air Mail, IEEE Spectrum, Inside, Legal Affairs, Brill’s Content, and others. An attorney who no longer practices, he is the author of "Triple Jeopardy," a book about an Arizona death penalty case. He is a senior editor at Lawfare.
Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.

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