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Historians in the News

6/2/2020

Explaining the Insurrection Act of 1807 and Looking Back on Nixon’s Law & Order Campaign (Podcast)

This episode of the KPFA podcast Letters and Politics features historian Rick Perlstein and Constitutional lawyer Neil Kinkopf. Klinkopf evaluates Trump's threat to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, and Perlstein discusses the history of Nixon's Law and Order Campaign.

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