capital take the unprecedented step of subpoenaing fellow members of and, did the select committee even have the authority to do it. do you think you are going to have to subpoena a sitting member of congress? i think that there is some questions of whether we have authority to do it. we are looking at it. if the charges are there, there will be no reluctance on our part. with the authorities there, there will be no reelecting from our part. at the time, benny thompson was reluctant to issue subpoenas. i doubt it, he told the associated press, there is no precedent to force that compliance. with the months since, revelations have come to light, which would force the committee to grapple with a different question. how could the committee not subpoenaed these members? because after conducting nearly 1000 witness interviews on obtaining over 100,000 documents, one thing has become clear: efforts to contest joe biden s legitimate election victory were not limited to the t
it s about overly aggressive law enforcement, a soup pine judiciary and almost comically ineffective representation. and how all of these things remain on death row who nearly everyone now agrees is innocent. even the man who prosecuted him now doubts his guilt. it s a story about the lives ruined along the way. and it s about the murder of a much like deputy that because of all this, remains unsolved. all of those aspects of the story were true three years ago and given a setback to mr. johnson s case this week one of state appeals court upheld his conviction, they remain true today. the case is far from over, though. the district attorney is trying to get a new trial. alabama s governor could pardon johnson. and the attorney general could drop the case. joining us now is readily bilk, oh he s the washington post columnist who wrote that piece for the washington post and help johnson s case corner national tension. mr. bell co-, thank you for being here tonight and thank you for bring
drop the case. joining us now is radley balko, he s the washington post columnist who wrote that piece for the washington post and help helped johnson s case corner national tension. mr. radley balko, thank you for being here tonight and thank you for bringing the story to the nations attention. how did you get started on this? would first review to toforest johnson s case, given that there are many people on death row who claim to not be there for the right reasons. part of my beat as a criminal justice system and part of that is reaching out to defensive tierney s and keeping in regular touch with a few of them throughout the country. and so a couple of attorneys that i had interviewed that were correspond with on other cases reached out to me. and one thing i found over the course of my career covering the speed, defensive tierney s attorneys handle a lot of cases in a lot of people that they represent are guilty. even though the system can be unfair, they tend to only reach out t