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Lawfare Live, The Now: Judge Finds Potential Irregularities in Comey Grand Jury Proceedings

Benjamin Wittes, Roger Parloff
Monday, November 17, 2025, 1:39 PM
Watch the discussion at 5:30 pm ET.

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At 5:30 pm ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff to discuss Magistrate Judge Fitzpatrick ordering all grand jury minutes and recordings turned over to James Comey's defense team by close of business today due to potential irregularities in the proceedings.

Watch the livestream on Substack or YouTube.


Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
Roger Parloff is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. For 12 years, he was the main legal correspondent at Fortune Magazine. His work has also been published in ProPublica, The New York Times, New York, NewYorker.com, Yahoo Finance, Air Mail, IEEE Spectrum, Inside, Legal Affairs, Brill’s Content, and others. An attorney who no longer practices, he is the author of "Triple Jeopardy," a book about an Arizona death penalty case. He is a senior editor at Lawfare.
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