Donald Trump
The Jan. 6th Committee on Why Oaths Matter
The committee chair and vice chair told the story of Jan. 6 as a day of oaths upheld and broken.
Natalie Orpett is the executive editor of Lawfare and deputy general counsel of the Lawfare Institute. She was previously an attorney at the law firm Jenner & Block, where she focused on investigations and government controversies, and also maintained an active pro bono practice. She served as civilian counsel to a defendant in the Guantanamo Military Commissions for more than eight years. She also served as counsel to the National Security and Foreign Policy Legal Team of the Biden-Harris Transition Team.
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The committee chair and vice chair told the story of Jan. 6 as a day of oaths upheld and broken.
The episode looks at what Congress was doing in the days immediately after Jan. 6. We hear from experts and from people who were actually there, on both sides of the proceedings—Rep. Jamie Raskin, the lead impeachment manager, and David Schoen, the lead defense lawyer for Donald Trump.
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