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Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, July 18

Benjamin Wittes, Anna Bower, Nick Bednar, Roger Parloff
Wednesday, July 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation targeting actions from President Trump.

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On July 18 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff and Lawfare Contributor Nicholas Bednar to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing the Trump administration’s to fire Department of Education personnel, litigation over DOGE’s actions, and more.

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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 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.
Nicholas Bednar is an associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School. He writes in the areas of executive politics, administrative law, and immigration. He holds a PhD in political science from Vanderbilt University and a JD from the University of Minnesota Law School.
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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