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First Amendment Issues Surrounding the Trump Impeachment for Incitement

Date: February 10, 2021

Did Trump’s Jan. 6th speech amount to incitement under Brandenburg? Are his surrounding lies about the election relevant? Can Trump be criminally prosecuted? What would be the impact on social activism and other protests? With Professor Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law School; Suzanne Nossel, PEN America; and Lee Rowland, New York Civil Liberties Union.

Did Trump’s Jan. 6th speech amount to incitement under Brandenburg? Are his surrounding lies about the election relevant? Can Trump be criminally prosecuted? What would be the impact on social activism and other protests? With Professor Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law School; Suzanne Nossel, PEN America; and Lee Rowland, New York Civil Liberties Union.