Today on Boston Public Radio:
Renée Landers shared her legal analysis of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and discussed the importance of Congress establishing a timeline of what happened during the Jan. 6 Capitol siege. Landers is a professor of law and faculty director of the health and biomedical law concentration at Suffolk University’s School of Law.
Next, we opened the phone lines to hear listeners’ thoughts on Trump's acquittal.
Gerly Adrien spoke about her recent Boston Globe op-ed, where she discussed the higher standards she is held to as a Black woman in politics. She also talked about her ongoing campaign for reelection. Adrien is an at-large city councilor in Everett.
Jeannie Suk Gerson weighed in on whether the Capitol rioters could be charged with treason and shared her thoughts on the legal strategy of Trump’s defense team. Gerson is a professor at Harvard Law School and a contributor to The New Yorker.
We talked with listeners about Trump’s impeachment trial.
The Rev. Irene Monroe and the Rev. Emmett G. Price III talked about the messaging behind Trump’s “Stop the Steal” narrative. They also discussed President Joe Biden’s Lunar New Year message condemning racism against Asian Americans. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail and a visiting researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program at the Boston University School of Theology. Price is executive director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Together, they host GBH’s All Rev’d Up podcast.
Shirley Leung talked about the Baker administration’s handling of unemployment benefits, small business assistance and Boston’s racial wealth gap. Leung is a business columnist for The Boston Globe.
We wrapped up the show by asking listeners how they were spending school vacation week during quarantine.
