{"id":14743,"date":"2023-08-02T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T01:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14743"},"modified":"2023-08-02T18:06:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T01:06:19","slug":"overdue-accountability-finally-arriving-for-the-biggest-constitutional-crime-in-our-history-bradcast-822023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=14743","title":{"rendered":"Overdue Accountability Finally Arriving for ‘The Biggest Constitutional Crime in Our History’: ‘BradCast’ 8\/2\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

The quote in the headline for today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a> comes, according to one of our guests today, from former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal<\/b>, who knows quite a bit about both Constitutional crimes and American history. Finally, Donald J. Trump<\/b> is facing accountability for his worst (known) crime of all: Attempting to overthrow American democracy itself by stealing a Presidential election from the American people before our very eyes. Luckily, he was as bad at that as he is at everything else. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n

“This is a momentous legal event. It’s the most significant legal event of our lifetimes, one of the most significant legal events ever in the history of this country. It is up there with Marbury vs Madison<\/i>, Brown vs Board of Education<\/i>, Dred Scott<\/i> as a defining case for the times,” Katyal told MSNBC<\/a> after the new indictment against the the disgraced former President was handed up in D.C. yesterday. “This indictment lays out a case that a guy who was President of the United States — while he was President of the US — leveraged his office, used his power to thwart the will of the people in the most solemn thing they do in our country, vote. This is the biggest constitutional crime in our history.”<\/p>\n

We’re joined today discuss that crime and Trump’s latest indictment (his third in four months, and his second at the federal level) for it by two favorite BradCast<\/em> special coverage guests. HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b> is the award-winning columnist at Salon<\/a> and founder of Digby’s Hullabaloo<\/a> blog; and our old friend “DRIFTGLASS”<\/b> is otherwise known as both @Mr_Electrico<\/a> on Twitter and simply “Bill” at home in “Flyover Country, Illinois” where he has long and proudly produced The Professional Left Podcast<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith<\/strong>‘s new, very readable 45-page indictment [PDF]<\/a> against Trump just minutes before airtime on Tuesday<\/a> — including four felony fraud, obstruction and conspiracy charges related to his attempt to steal the 2020 election before, during, and after the January 6, 2021 insurrection he incited at the U.S. Capitol — we’ve had a bit of time to finally read the charges and evidence presented with them in full.<\/p>\n

Also, we’ve had some time to learn about the judge assigned to the case, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan<\/b><\/a>. And, boy howdy, is Trump not gonna like her<\/a>. She was appointed by President Obama, has been particularly tough<\/a> on January 6 insurrectionists, and famously (and correctly) wrote<\/a>, in a 2021 ruling allowing the bipartisan House Jan. 6 Select Committee access to documents from the Trump White House that “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.”<\/p>\n

As noted, he’s not gonna like her one bit. Oh, well. Perhaps it balances out the Trump-appointed federal judge\/stooge<\/a> overseeing<\/a> his federal indictment on 40 felony charges related to his theft and retention of national security documents and his attempts to obstruct the government’s investigation and attempts to retrieve them down in Florida. <\/p>\n

Among the topics discussed with “Digby” and “Driftglass” on today’s special coverage…<\/p>\n