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Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, March 14

Benjamin Wittes, Scott R. Anderson, Matthew Boaz, Anna Bower
Thursday, March 13, 2025, 11:22 AM
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation targeting actions from President Trump.

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On March 14 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Scott Anderson and assistant professor of law at the Univeristy of Kentucky Matthew Boaz to discuss the status of the civil litigation against President Trump’s executive actions, including the freezing of the disbursement of federal funds, the dismantling of USAID, and the firing of probationary employees.

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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 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.
Matthew Boaz is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law. He was previously the Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Washington & Lee University School of Law, prior to which he represented individuals held in immigration detention centers while in removal proceedings. His scholarship focuses on immigration detention, administrative enforcement, and criminal law.
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.
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