May 23, 2019
Following the release of the Mueller Report, much of the media and
the public’s focus has been on potential obstruction of justice.
Yet, argues Georgetown University’s Marty Lederman, more attention
should be paid to whether President Trump’s conduct violated his
Constitutional oath of office and undermined the
counterintelligence investigation into Russian election
interference. As Democrats continue debating whether to file
articles of impeachment, Lederman joins Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang
to discuss how the report transcends Mueller’s decision-making on
obstruction of justice. Lederman was deputy assistant attorney
general in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel
(OLC) from 2009 to 2010, and an attorney advisor in the OLC from
1994 to 2002.