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Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 31

Benjamin Wittes, Peter E. Harrell, Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff
Thursday, July 30, 2026, 1:00 PM
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation surrounding the Trump administration.
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On Friday, July 31, at 4 p.m. ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Contributing Editor Peter Harrell and Senior Editors Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and Roger Parloff to discuss litigation over President Trump’s new tariffs, a hearing in Anthropic’s suit challenging the Pentagon’s supply chain risk designation, recent filings by James Comey in the “86” seashells prosecution, and more.

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Benjamin Wittes

Benjamin Wittes

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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.
Peter E. Harrell

Peter E. Harrell

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Peter E. Harrell is a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown’s Institute for International Economic law and an attorney in private practice. His scholarly research focuses on the intersection of international economics and U.S. national security. Harrell previously served at the White House in 2021-2022.
Anna Bower

Anna Bower

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Anna Bower is a senior editor at Lawfare. Anna holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Cambridge and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School. She joined Lawfare as a recipient of Harvard’s Sumner M. Redstone Fellowship in Public Service. Prior to law school, Anna worked as a judicial assistant for a Superior Court judge in the Northeastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia. She also previously worked as a Fulbright Fellow at Anadolu University in Eskişehir, Turkey. A native of Georgia, Anna is based in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
Eric Columbus

Eric Columbus

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Eric Columbus is a senior editor at Lawfare. He previously served as special litigation counsel at the U.S. House of Representatives’ Office of General Counsel from 2020 to 2023. During the Obama administration, he served in political appointments at the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security.
Roger Parloff

Roger Parloff

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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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