Lawfare Daily: Nick Bednar on Trump's Civil Service Executive Orders

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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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 a piece for Lawfare. They discuss what the orders say, how they might be challenged in court, and what this means for the next four years and beyond.

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