Freedom from Fear: The Assault on the Rule of Law

On April 10, 2025, we recorded this webinar discussing the administration’s assault on the rule of law, freedom of speech, and the new oligarchy.

Meet our panelists:

Deborah Pearlstein is the Director of the Program in Law and Public Policy and Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She is an expert on the U.S. Constitution, international law, democracy, and national security.

Suzanne Nossel is the former CEO of PEN America, a human rights advocate, and the author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All.

Richard W. Painter is the S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota. From February 2005 to July 2007, he served as the chief ethics lawyer for the George W. Bush administration.

Sidney Blumenthal is the co-chair of The Court of History. He is the former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln, is a member of the board of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, a columnist for The Guardian, former staff writer for The Washington Post, The New Republic and The New Yorker, and the author of The Permanent Campaign and The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, among other books.

Sean Wilentz is the co-chair of The Court of History. He is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University. His books have won, among other awards, the Bancroft Prize, and he also contributes work across the length and breadth of American journalism, from the New York Times to Rolling Stone to the New York Review of Books.

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