3900 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Monday, March 10, 2025
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | Teplitz Memorial Courtroom | Ground Floor
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
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Special Guest:
Harry Litman
Lawyer, law professor, and legal commentator. A former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and Assistant U.S. Attorney in various offices. Litman is the creator, host, and executive producer of the Talking Feds franchise, which includes a roundtable podcast, weekly one-on-one discussions, Talking Books conversations with authors, Talking San Diego discussions with national figures, Talking Feds Substack, and Talking Feds daily youtubes. A Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy at the University of Southern California, Litman also is the senior legal columnist for the New Republic and a frequent commentator for MSNBC, CNN and CBS News.
In Conversation with:
Mark Nordenberg
Chancellor Emeritus, Chair of the Institute of Politics, Director of the Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law & Public Policy
Introductions by: Jerry Dickinson, Professor of Law, Dean Pitt Law.
The early weeks of the second administration of President Trump have brought a surge of executive orders and other actions that have triggered issues about the future of agency oversight and long-accepted norms for federal law enforcement. These include the blanket pardoning of nearly 1600 individuals sentenced for what had been found to be criminal actions in the Capitol on January 6, 2021; the launch of investigations of federal employees who had participated in the January 6 prosecutions; and the firing of inspectors general. They also include the dismissal of the criminal prosecution of the Mayor of NYC, which led to multiple resignations within the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice, and even the NYC Mayor’s Office. This flurry of activity has left many struggling to understand both the significance of individual actions and where collectively they may be taking us.
Co-sponsored by: Pitt Law, Pitt Cyber, David C. Frederick Honors College
Thank you to the Richard King Mellon Foundation for its generous support of the Dick Thornburgh Forum's governance programs.
Original source can be found here.