Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 10
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Eric Columbus, and Roger Parloff to discuss Judge Friedman rejecting the Defense Department’s revised press rules, the D.C. Circuit denying Anthropic’s petition for a stay pending review of the enforcement of its supply chain designation, Judge Sorokin rejecting the Justice Department’s attempt to obtain Massachusetts voter records, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Friday, April 10th, 206. It is 4 o'clock p.m. in Washington, D.C., and you are watching Lawfare |
| 0:20.2 | Live. I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, |
| 0:25.2 | and I am here with three Lawfare senior editors, Roger Parloff, Eric Columbus, and Molly Roberts. |
| 0:34.2 | And we have got a bevy of cases to go over this week on the tribulations and trials of the Trump |
| 0:41.8 | administration. |
| 0:44.1 | And we're going to start with the always affable Judge Friedman, senior judge Paul Friedman, who can make a scathing opinion feel like a friendly lunch over drinks. |
| 1:00.7 | Molly Roberts, he wrote a long opinion saying that the government was not complying with his order. |
| 1:10.6 | Was he as affable in the opinion as he was |
| 1:13.7 | at the hearing? |
| 1:15.2 | No, I wouldn't say so. |
| 1:16.8 | I mean, when you read it, you know, you don't have the benefit of observing his countenance. |
| 1:21.6 | So you only have the words, and I think anyone would read into these words, less affability |
| 1:27.1 | than affability with which he might |
| 1:29.6 | actually deliver it if he were, you know, reading it from the bench or something. But he didn't, |
| 1:34.2 | he just wrote it. So not quite as cheery, which is no surprise because of what happened, |
| 1:41.6 | which was the government trying to give him the runaround. |
| 1:46.6 | All right. So what, for those who didn't hear Lawfare Live, the trials and tribulations |
| 1:54.3 | of the Trump administration last week, what did he do last week? What did he order and, I guess it was two weeks ago, |
| 2:04.1 | what did he order and what did he now find that the government did not comply with? |
| 2:10.4 | Yeah, so if I recall correctly, we discussed it two weeks ago when the motions had been filed, and then the hearing was last week, |
| 2:19.3 | and I think we didn't discuss because we were awaiting the order and thought it would be imminent, |
| 2:23.7 | and now here it is. So the background here is that the New York Times sued against the Pentagon's changes to its press policy. The Pentagon had revoked the |
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