It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, with Lawfare

senior editors, Anna Bauer, Molly Roberts, and Eric Columbus, and public service fellow, Lauren

Laws. In the December 19th episode of the trials of the Trump administration, we talked about

the government's failure to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James.

We talked about a jury finding that Judge Hannah Dugin is guilty of obstructing immigration

agents.

We talked about legal challenges to the White House ballroom construction, and so very much more.

It is Friday, the 19th day of December 2025.

It is 4 o'clock p.m. in Washington. You watching Lawfare Live.

I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, and I am here with four, three Lawfare Senior Editors and one Lawfare Public Service Fellow,

Anna Bauer, Eric Columbus, Molly Roberts, and Lauren Voss.

And we are talking, this is our last Lawfare Live, regularly scheduled anyway, Lawfare Live of the year.

We will not be having a show next week.

We will probably be having a show on January 2nd, but we don't know that for sure.

So we may actually go three whole weeks without a lawfare live.

We are going to start with Dan Richmond, who has had a better week than Lindsay Halligan has,

Anna Bauer. We're going to talk about both of their weeks, but we're going to start with

Dan Richmond. Anna, bring us up to speed. He kind of

pulled off a bit of a stunt. Yeah. I mean, it's honestly fascinating. And I'm looking forward to,

I know, Orrin Care is, I think, planning to write on this at some point about the Fourth Amendment stuff.

It's a really fascinating area of law.

But beyond that, it has major potential implications for the Comey case.

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