it through enforcement, professor american history at yale university, and steven levitskiy is a professor of history at harvard university. two days before judge michael luttig got a phone call that may have changed the course of history for this nation. then, a capitol police officer who risked his life on january six is hoping to serve his country to different way, this time as an elected official. plus i will talk to california colorado secretary of state janet griswold on the heels of the decision to see whether trump is eligible to be on the stage primary ballot. another hour of velshi starts right now. good morning, it s saturday december the six. i m ali velshi. it s been three years since that mob attacked the united states capitol as part of donald trump s desperate attempt to cling to power after losing the 2020 presidential election. that attack lasted only a few hours, but the long shadow of the violent insurrection continues to loom large over american dem
think. there s a great freeze that a professor at princeton who studies hungry uses. which is authoritarian legal -ism. which means that the law is being used, not as a tool of the rule of law, or a tool of democracy, for even ensuring quality, but twisted in a very subtle and almost imperceptible ways. to change the functioning of democracy itself. so, when you look at some of the detailed stuff that you ve seen coming out for trump s second term, if he does in fact when, things like replacing large chunks of the federal bureaucracy. to a lot of, people that doesn t resonate. oh, chasing staff. who cares. but actually that matters a great deal. because those people determine, in very little ways, what the law means. they re the ones implementing it. so if trump is changing over a huge chunk of the department of justice staff, replacing long term salaried professionals with political cronies, all of a sudden, the law can be abused as a tool of going after s