The official podcast of the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, featuring conversations with the journalists, politicians, leaders, academics and thinkers who shape our world. Hosted by Paris Jackson
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Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
In January 2017 Bob Ferguson became the first state attorney general to sue the Trump Administration. That was in response to the president's attempt to ban travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries. Since then, the Washington state attorney general has filed 40 additional lawsuits against the administration. So far, Ferguson has won around half of those case and the Trump administration hasn't won any. For this episode of Crosscut Talks, we invited Ferguson to discuss all of these efforts and the changing role of attorneys general in American politics. Speaking with Ferguson is Emily Bazelon, a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration.
This episode was recorded on May 4, 2019, at Seattle University for the Crosscut Festival.