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Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Oct. 31

Benjamin Wittes, Scott R. Anderson, Eric Columbus, Matthew Olsen, Loren Voss
Wednesday, October 29, 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 Oct. 31 at 4pm ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Loren Voss, and Eric Columbus and Lawfare Contributor Matthew Olsen to discuss a district judge ruling at the acting U.S. attorney in Southern California was serving unlawfully, updates in the litigation over the federalization and deployment of the National Guard in Oregon, D.C., and Chicago, legal challenges to the Trump adminsitration’s plan to conduct mass firings of federal personnel during the government shutdown, 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.
Scott R. Anderson

Scott R. Anderson

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Scott R. Anderson is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow in the National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School. He previously served as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State and as the legal advisor for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
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.
Matthew Olsen

Matthew Olsen

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Matthew Olsen served as the Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2021 to 2025.
Loren Voss

Loren Voss

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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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