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Lawfare Live: Discussing Litigation over President Trump's Executive Actions

Benjamin Wittes, Anna Bower, Roger Parloff
Thursday, February 6, 2025, 1:48 PM
On Feb. 7 at 5pm ET, the Lawfare team will discuss the suits targeting recent orders from President Trump.

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On Feb. 7 at 5 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss all of the lawsuits targeting President Trump’s executive actions, including DOGE’s recent actions, the deferred resignation program, and the attempt to fire FBI agents and employees.

Find Lawfare’s litigation tracker here.

The start time of the livestream may change depending on when the 2:30 pm hearing in the lawsuit over DOGE’s attempt to access the Department of Labor. Any change to time will be announced on YouTube and Lawfare’s social media.

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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.
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 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.

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