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Has Trump Undermined the DOJ's Independence?
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Has Trump Undermined the DOJ's Independence?

Emily Bazelon recaps this week's news from the DOJ and offers analysis about what it might say about the state of judicial independence.

The Brian Lehrer Show

January 16, 202641m 29s

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Show Notes

Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019) , recaps this week's news from the DOJ – including the investigation into Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell, the resignation of six prosecutors over the Renee Good shooting, and the recent raid of a Washington Post journalist's home – and offers analysis about what it might say about the state of judicial independence. 

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