Treason! A Conversation w/ Carlton F.W. Larson

Good Law | Bad Law

Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Professor Carlton F.W. Larson, of the University of California Davis School of Law, to discuss the events of January 6th and the siege on the U.S. Capitol. Aaron and Carlton have an incredibly important and timely conversation on the legalities of treason, insurrection, sedition and seditious conspiracy, as well as Trump’s responsibility, involvement and failure to protect.

Today’s conversation is of the utmost importance after the tragedy of Wednesday’s attack on Capitol Hill. The world watched in horror as a violent mob stormed the steps of Capitol Hill and seized possession of the Nation’s Capitol on one of America’s darkest days, Aaron and Carlton talk about what happened and the aftermath that we are now forced to sort through. Carlton and Aaron have a conversation about accountability, the history of treason and treason law, the incoming Biden Administration and the new Justice Department, and levying war. Aaron and Carlton touch on the Founders, case law, Article III, and more. What happens next? Is this treason? Is Trump responsible?

Carlton F.W. Larson is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis, as well as a scholar of American constitutional law and Anglo-American legal history. Professor Larson’s scholarship addresses a wide range of issues, including enemy combatant detentions, legacy preferences in public universities, the historical basis of Second Amendment rights, and parents’ rights to name their children. A graduate of both Harvard University and Yale Law School, Professor Larson is one of the nation’s leading authorities on the law of treason and is the author of the books On Treason: A Citizen’s Guide to the Law (Ecco/HarperCollins) and The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press). Professor Larson’s scholarship has been cited by numerous federal and state courts and has been profiled in The New York Times, The Economist, TIME, and others. He is a frequent commentator for the national media on constitutional law issues and recently published a piece in The Washington Post, “The framers would have seen the mob at the Capitol as traitors.”

Prior to joining the UC Davis law faculty, Professor Larson served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Daly Hawkins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and spent three years as a commercial litigator at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.

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To read Professor Larson’s recent Washington Post article, “The framers would have seen the mob at the Capitol as traitors,” please click here.

To check out Professor Larson’s book, On Treason: A Citizen’s Guide to the Law, please click here.

To check out Professor Larson’s book, The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution, please click here.

Host: Aaron Freiwald

Guest: Carlton F.W. Larson

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