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Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Oct. 17

Benjamin Wittes, Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, Loren Voss
Thursday, October 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 Oct. 17 at 4pm ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Roger Parloff, and Eric Columbus and Lawfare Public Service Fellow Loren Voss to discuss a judge blocking President Trump from carrying out mass firings during the government shutdown, the ongoing weaponization of the Justice Department, 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.
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.
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.
Loren Voss

Loren Voss

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Loren Voss ia a senior editor at Lawfare. She 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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