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The Lawfare Podcast features discussions with experts, policymakers, and opinion leaders at the nexus of national security, law, and policy. On issues from foreign policy, homeland security, intelligence, and cybersecurity to governance and law, we have doubled down on seriousness at a time when others are running away from it. Visit us at www.lawfaremedia.org. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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55:39

Lawfare Archive: Trade War Powers: Past, Present and...

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2025/02/08

From August 31, 2020: Earlier this month, the Trump administration re-imposed tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada, signaling a new salvo in the now years-long trade war it has been waging with countless U.S. trading partners. But what gives the president the authority to pursue such measures unilaterally, even when he lacks support from members of his own party in Congress? To talk through this question, Scott R. Anderson sat down with Kathleen Claussen of the University of Miami School of Law

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33:42

Lawfare Daily: Nayna Gupta on the Laken Riley Act

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2025/02/07

On today’s podcast,LawfareAssociate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey spoke to Nayna Gupta, Director of Policy at the American Immigration Council, about the Laken Riley Act, the first piece of legislation signed by President Trump in his second term, its start as a messaging bill in the last Congress, and its impact on the immigration detention system.We value your feedback! Help us improve by sharing your thoughts atlawfaremedia.org/survey. Your input ensures that we deliver what matters most

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28:47

Lawfare Daily: Understanding the War in Sudan

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2025/02/06

Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor and Georgetown professor Daniel Byman sits down with Holly Berkley Fletcher, a former Senior Africa Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, to discuss the complex and tragic situation in Sudan and her recent Lawfare article on the subject, “The Sudan War and the Limits of American Power.” They talk about the initial hope following the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir in 2019, the subsequent military conflicts in Sudan, the country’s humanitarian crisis, the role of

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1:17:01

Rational Security: The "Law and Order: Executive...

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2025/02/05

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Molly Reynolds, and Anna Bower to talk through another big week of national security news, including:“Checked Out and Off Balance.” Over its first two weeks in office, the Trump administration has pushed against the traditional limits of congressional authority by unlawfully impounding funds, terminating federal employees contrary to statute, and seeking to dismantle at least one federal agency contrary to statute. But the

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47:30

Lawfare Daily: The Legality of OPM's "Deferred...

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2025/02/05

On Jan. 28, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent out an email offering a “deferred resignation program” to over 2 million federal employees, encouraging them to resign effective Sept. 30. The offer is only open until Feb. 6—and in the intervening days since OPM announced the program, federal employees have received a blizzard of followup emails offering confusing and rapidly changing information.Writing inLawfare,Nick Bednar hasexamined the OPM offerandraised questionsabout whether federal

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56:28

Lawfare Daily: What Is Happening with USAID?

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2025/02/04

Today’s episode is a recording of Feb. 3 livestream that Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson hosted with George Ingram and Tony Pipa, both Senior Fellows in Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, and Jonathan Katz, Senior Director of the Anti-Corruption, Democracy, and Security project also at Brookings—all three of whom are also alumni of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Among other topics, they discussed the USAID’s tumultuous experience over the first two

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5:59

January Minipod: What Is the Judicial Conference of...

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2025/02/03

On this month’s minipod episode, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey discusses what the judicial conference of the United States is and their authorities to investigate potential ethics violations by judges.View the list of judges currently on the Judicial Conference here.Read the ProPublica article on the Judicial Conference here. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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44:12

Lawfare Daily: Should the U.S. Sanction the ICC, with...

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2025/02/03

Nema Milaninia, a former prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and a current partner at the law firm King & Spalding, joinsLawfareManaging Editor Tyler McBrien to discuss legislation in the U.S. Congress and recent executive actions taken by the Trump administration to, once again, sanction the International Criminal Court.Milaninia discusses what is motivating the most recent sanctions campaign, broke down the many

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35:50

Lawfare Archive: Sejal Zota on ICE Tracking Technologies

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2025/02/02

From May 9, 2022: Many individuals seeking asylum or other forms of immigration relief in the U.S. are subject to a program run by Immigration Customs Enforcement, or ICE, called the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, which uses various kinds of tracking technologies as a way of keeping tabs on individuals who are not detained in ICE custody.Stephanie Pell sat down with Sejal Zota, legal director of Just Futures Law, to talk about this program and the kinds of tracking technologies it

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1:06:36

Lawfare Daily: Discussing the Kennedy, Patel, and...

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2025/02/01

In a live conversation on January 30,LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke toLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff and contributing editor Renee DiResta about the confirmation hearings of Kash Patel to be FBI director, Tulsi Gabbard to be the director of national intelligence, and Robert F. Kennedy to be the health and human services secretary. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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43:47

Lawfare Daily: How the Trump Administration is Using...

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2025/01/31

For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Chris Mirasola, an assistant professor at the University of Houston Law Center and former Defense Department lawyer, to talk through the ways that the Trump administration is using the military to enforce its new immigration policies.They discussed the steps the Trump administration has taken thus far, from transporting migrants on military flights to threatening to send them to Guantanamo Bay; the legal

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Lawfare Daily: Understanding the Impoundment Crisis

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2025/01/30

This week, the Office of Management and Budget announced a breathtakingly broad freeze on federal funds—before scrambling to clarify that freeze and seemingly rolling it back only two days later. The crisis touches on profound questions about the congressional power of the purse and limitations on presidential power under the Impoundment Control Act. To explain what’s going on, Lawfare Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic spoke with Eloise Pasachoff, a professor at Georgetown Law School, and Zachary Price

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1:15:33

Rational Security: The “Don’t Cry for Me, Lawfare”...

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2025/01/29

This week, Scott was joined by his colleagues Kevin and Eugenia—in what is sadly her last episode before leaving Lawfare—as well as special guest Peter Harrell for a deep dive into the week’s national security news, including:“Tariff or Takeoff.” The Trump administration got into what is arguably its first major international spat this week when Colombia’s refusal to accept a U.S. military flight returning migrants to that country led President Trump to threaten an array of punitive measures, from

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37:39

Lawfare Daily: Peter Hyun on the Tech Supply Chain...

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2025/01/29

Peter Hyun, then-Acting Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission, discusses with Lawfare Contributing Editor Justin Sherman the FCC’s data security and cybersecurity enforcement authorities and how those authorities fit into addressing national security threats to the communications supply chain. He covers some recent enforcement actions and issues in this area, ranging from the FCC’s data breach notification rule to submarine cables to rip-and-replace efforts

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Lawfare Daily: Nick Bednar on Trump's Civil Service...

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2025/01/28

In today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Z. Rozenshtein speaks with his University of Minnesota Law colleague, Nick Bednar, about the wave of Day 1 executive orders affecting the civil service. Bednar recently analyzed these orders in apiece forLawfare. They discuss what the orders say, how they might be challenged in court, and what this means for the next four years and beyond. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Lawfare Daily: Discussing President Trump’s First...

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2025/01/27

In a live conversation on January 23,LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke toLawfareSenior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Alan Rozenshtein and assistant law professor at Pace University Amelia Wilson about the first batch of executive orders by President Trump in his second term, including suspending enforcement of the TikTok ban, the use of the military at the border, the birthright citizenship order, and the legal challenges some of these orders are facing. Get

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57:02

Lawfare Archive: A Jan. 6 Committee Staffer on...

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2025/01/26

From February 15, 2023: The Jan. 6 committee’s final report on the insurrection is over 800 pages, including the footnotes. But there’s still new information coming out about the committee’s findings and its work.Last week, we brought you aninterview with Dean Jackson, one of the staffers who worked on the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation into the role of social media in the insurrection. Today, we’re featuring a conversation with Jacob Glick, who served as investigative counsel on the committee and

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55:57

Lawfare Archive: The West Bank and the Israel-Hamas War

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2025/01/25

From November 3, 2023: Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the Israel-Hamas war has largely been fought in Gaza, a small strip of land along the border of the Mediterranean Sea. But farther inland, there has been an uptick in hostilities between Israelis and Palestinians in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem says that at least 13 Palestinian herding communities in the West Bank have been forcibly displaced since the beginning of the war due

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Lawfare Daily: Aram Gavoor on the Trump...

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2025/01/24

Aram Gavoor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at GW Law, joins Kevin Frazier, a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to summarize and analyze the Trump administration’s initial moves to pivot the nation’s AI policy toward relentless innovation. The duo discuss the significance of Trump rescinding the Biden administration’s 2023 executive order on AI as well as the recently announced Stargate Project. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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37:56

Lawfare Daily: Former Deputy Chief of the Justice...

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2025/01/23

Alexis Loeb,the former Deputy Chief of the Capitol Siege Section of the Department of Justice, sits down with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff to talk about President Trump's blanket pardons and commutations for everyone her unit prosecuted.She discusses how she became involved with the cases; how they were handled by prosecutors, judges, and juries; a couple of cases she personally prosecuted; and her views on the impact of Trump's pardon proclamation. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast

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