Mary McCord is a former federal prosecutor now at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center, who created a pathbreaking lawsuit against extremist militias in the wake of the violent “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville that makes her a key example of the idea guiding this podcast: that just as extremism in America is home grown, the norms and institutions of American democracy can be marshaled to deal with it. We’ll find out why America’s founders wanted to protect the new country from violent groups like today’s militias and hear a bold new idea she is fighting for: a federal law that would, for the first time would make domestic terrorism a federal crime.