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Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Oct. 3

Benjamin Wittes, Loren Voss, Roger Parloff, Eric Columbus
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 10:47 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 Oct. 3 at 4pm ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Public Service Fellow Loren Voss and Lawfare Senior Editors Roger Parloff, and Eric Columbus to discuss Judge Young’s ruling that the Trump administration unlawfully targeted noncitizens for pro-Palestinian views, immigration enforcement condition on federal grants, litigation over the deployment of National Guard in Portland, a suit challenging the expected reductions in force during the shutdown, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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