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Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Jan. 23

Benjamin Wittes, Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, Olivia Manes, Roger Parloff
Thursday, January 22, 2026, 3:10 PM
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On Jan. 23 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Roger Parloff, and Eric Columbus and Lawfare Associate Editor Olivia Manes to discuss the FBI searching the home of a Washington Post reporter, criminal inquiries into Minnesota state officials by the Justice Department, the Supreme Court oral arguments in President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve, 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.
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.
Olivia Manes

Olivia Manes

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Olivia Manes is an associate editor of Lawfare. She holds an MPhil in politics and international studies from the University of Cambridge and a dual B.A. in international relations and comparative literature from Stanford University. Previously, she was an associate editor of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
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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