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Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Aug. 1

Benjamin Wittes, Anna Bower, Renée DiResta, Michael Feinberg, James Pearce
Thursday, July 31, 2025, 11:30 AM
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation targeting actions from President Trump.
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On Aug. 1 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce, and Lawfare Contributors Renee DiResta and Michael Feinberg to discuss the Justice Department’s misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg, a preliminary injunction denied in the litigation over the firing of the director of the U.S. Copyright Office, 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.
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.
Renée DiResta

Renée DiResta

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Renée DiResta is an Associate Research Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown. She is a contributing editor at Lawfare.
Michael Feinberg

Michael Feinberg

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Michael Feinberg is a former Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he spent the overwhelming majority of his career combatting the PRC’s intelligence services. He is a recipient and multiple times nominee of the FBI’s highest recognition, the Director’s Award for Excellence, as well as numerous other Bureau honors and ODNI commendations. Prior to his service with the FBI, he was an attorney in both private and public practice. The opinions presented here are entirely his own and not that of the U.S. government.
James Pearce

James Pearce

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James Pearce worked at the Department of Justice for over a decade until January 2025. Pearce is now senior counsel at the Washington Litigation Group. In the Criminal Division at Main Justice, he worked in the Appellate Section and in the Public Integrity Section. He served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Offices in Maryland (Greenbelt) and in the District of Columbia. He also worked for Special Counsel Jack Smith.
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