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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 20

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🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 99 minutes

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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and Anna Bower, Lawfare Public Service Fellow Troy Edwards, and Lawfare Contributor Peter Harrell to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs, a federal judge holding a government attorney in contempt, Fulton County’s suit over the FBI’s seizure of ballots from the 2020 election, and more..


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0:00.0

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act turns 40 this year, and it's showing its age.

0:06.0

On Friday, March 6th, Lawfare and Georgetown Law are bringing together leading scholars,

0:11.1

practitioners, and former government officials for installing updates to ECPA, a half-day event

0:16.6

on what's broken with the statute and how to fix it. The event is free and open to the public, in person and online.

0:23.2

Visit lawfaremedia.org slash ECPA event.

0:26.4

That's lawfaremedia.org slash ECPA event for details and to register. It is Friday, February 20th, 2000, 26. It is 4 o'clock p.m. Washington time, and you are watching

0:53.0

Lawfare live. I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare,

0:57.9

and I am here with Lawfare Senior Editors Roger Parloff and Eric Columbus, Lawfare Public Service

1:06.1

fellow Troy Edwards, visiting scholar at Georgetown and Lawfare contributing editor Peter Harrell,

1:15.3

and we are expecting Lawfare senior editors Molly Roberts and Anna Bauer presently.

1:24.0

Look, folks, we got a lot on the agenda today, but it's a big day at the Supreme Court, a 6-3 vote.

1:33.1

They have struck down the president's tariff initiative under Aipa.

1:41.7

Peter, I can't think of anybody I would rather talk tariffs with on a day like this.

1:48.6

Welcome back to Lawfare Live.

1:51.5

That's great to be back on.

1:53.0

And certainly the decision those of us in the trade law world have been waiting for ever since it was argued in November.

2:00.7

Right.

2:00.8

And it's more or less, I think, the decision that you would have predicted if you had defied

2:11.2

the rules that you can't predict decisions based on oral arguments, right?

2:16.0

Like it's basically if you came out of oral argument

2:20.2

and said, well, Kavanaugh looks like, no. And, and, but boy, Amy Coney Barrett and, and,

2:31.3

and, Neil Gorsuch looked pretty skeptical.

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