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Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Sept. 5

Scott R. Anderson, Anna Bower, Roger Parloff, Benjamin Wittes
Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 5:10 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 Sept. 5 at 4pm ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Anna Bower, Roger Parloff, and Lawfare Public Service Fellow Loren Voss to discuss the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’s ruling finding that President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members was unlawful, the U.S. strike on an alleged “drug boat” in Venezuela, an update on the administration’s efforts to remove migrant children to Guatemala following Judge Sooknanan's ruling in L.G.M.L. et al. v. Kristi Noem, Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. and possibly Chicago, the gathering of U.S. troops and warships in the Caribbean, and more.

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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