It is Friday, April 3, 2006. It is 4 o'clock p.m. in Washington, D.C.

And you are watching Lawfare Live, the trials and tribulations of the Trump

administration. I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, here with Lawfare Senior Editors,

Roger Parloff, Molly Roberts, and Anna Bauer, and Lawfare Associate Editor, Catherine Pompilio.

And we're actually going to start with Catherine Pompilio today.

We've got a lot of ground to cover.

But for those of you who are unaware, we just released, I would say, a database of tribulations of the Trump administration in litigation,

which is a database of 300 cases in which federal judges have found in habeas cases that the Trump

administration has defied or failed to comply with court orders.

This database is largely the work of one Catherine Pompellio. She and I have a piece about it

that just went up along with the data. All of the data are available to the public. It is

searchable in a variety of forms. And you all should take it and do things with it because it is a very

interesting collection of cases. So, Catherine, tell us about this project and what trials and

tribulations it affects and to what extent it is, you know, what we know about these 300 cases.

Yeah. So this project was born out. you know, what we know about these 300 cases.

Yeah, so this project was born out of a situation column that you and I wrote together a few weeks back, kind of chronicling what federal judges were saying in habeas immigration cases.

And I noticed that a lot of them, specifically from in Minnesota,

there were complaints about noncompliance, threats of holding government lawyers and contempt

fines. And so I thought it would be helpful just for personal reasons to keep track of

all of the cases in which there were

issues of noncompliance. So this started from Judge Schultz's order in Minnesota,

which I think after, I think three orders came out to be 210 separate violations in 143 separate cases. And then from there, there was that

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