Aganga-Williams ’08 figures large in PBS ‘Frontline’ documentary

Furman University alumnus Temidayo Aganga-Williams ’08 joined several contributors in the PBS “Frontline” documentary “Trump’s Power and the Rule of Law,” which aired July 15. Aganga-Williams, a former assistant U.S. attorney and senior investigative counsel for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, spoke about Trump’s measures to test the efficacy of the U.S. judicial system.

The program included insights from across the political and judicial spectrum with commentary and clips from Trump loyalists and advisers, members of Congress, former and sitting judges, columnists from The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, authors, former inspectors general, former and sitting attorneys general, legal analysts and more.

Aganga-Williams was featured throughout the documentary focused on the clash between the executive and judicial branches. He said, “All American people should be worried about what we are seeing.” Toward the end of the 1.5-hour program, he said, “What is our system of government that we are all going to subject ourselves to? Do we have the rule of law, or do we have royal decrees? That’s what’s at stake here.”

Aganga-Williams is a partner at Selendy Gay PLLC in New York. A political science and philosophy graduate of Furman University, he earned a juris doctor from Cornell University in 2011.