Jack Goldsmith and John Fabian Witt on 'To Save the Country'
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Jack Goldsmith sat down with John Fabian Witt, professor of law at Yale Law School to talk about Witt\\u2019s new book, "To Save the Country: A Lost Treatise on Martial Law," which features a previously undiscovered manuscript written by Francis Lieber, a legal adviser to Lincoln\\u2019s White House and key thinker in the development of American laws of war. Witt explained Lieber\\u2019s impact on the development of American war-time law and talked about what the manuscript has to say about Lieber\\u2019s views of martial law and his unorthodox understanding of military necessity. The two also discussed the famous Reconstruction-era military commissions precedent Ex parte Milligan, Lieber\\u2019s anxieties about congressional power, and more.
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