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Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Nov. 14

Natalie K. Orpett, Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, Loren Voss
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 12:30 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 Nov. 14 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Roger Parloff and Eric Columbus and Lawfare Public Service Fellow Loren Voss to discuss a court hearing on whether Lindsey Halligan was appointed lawfully as U.S. attorney, a permanent injunction granted in the challenge to the National Guard deployment in Oregon, and more.

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Natalie Orpett is the executive editor of Lawfare and deputy general counsel of the Lawfare Institute. She was previously an attorney at the law firm Jenner & Block, where she focused on investigations and government controversies, and also maintained an active pro bono practice. She served as civilian counsel to a defendant in the Guantanamo Military Commissions for more than eight years.
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 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.
Loren Voss most recently served as Director for Defense Policy and Strategy at the National Security Council. She chairs the Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict at the American Society of International Law and previously served as a Senior Advisor for the Department of Defense and taught classes on domestic deployment of the military and disinformation at GW Law. Loren previously served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force.
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