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Lawfare Live: Confirmation Hearings, Day Two

Benjamin Wittes, Scott R. Anderson, Anna Bower, Tyler McBrien
Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 10:42 AM
Join the Lawfare team for a discussion of day two of confirmation hearings at 4 pm ET.
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On Jan. 15 at 4 p.m. ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will speak to Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Senior Editors Anna Bower and Scott Anderson about the confirmation hearings of Pam Bondi to be attorney general, John Ratcliffe to be CIA director, and Marco Rubio to be secretary of state.

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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.
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.
Tyler McBrien

Tyler McBrien

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Tyler McBrien is the managing editor of Lawfare. He previously worked as an editor with the Council on Foreign Relations and a Princeton in Africa Fellow with Equal Education in South Africa, and holds an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago.

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