Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 27
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Roger Parloff, Molly Roberts, Anna Bower, and Alan Rozenshtein, and Lawfare Public Service Fellow Troy Edwards to discuss the superseding indictment in the case against Don Lemon and his co-defendants in Minnesota, the standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, the firing of FBI agents who worked on the classified documents case, 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, |
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| 0:51.8 | It is Friday, February 27, 2006. It is 4 o'clock p.m. in Washington, D.C. You are watching Lawfare Live, the trials of the Trump administration. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, and I am here with an unruly collection |
| 1:02.2 | of Lawfare senior editors and public service fellows, Anna Bauer, Molly Roberts, Scott R. Anderson, Roger Parloff, and Troy Edwards. |
| 1:18.2 | We got a lot of ground to cover today. So let us start in Minnesota, Anna Bauer, |
| 1:25.5 | where there is a superseding indictment of Don Lemon and others to supersede |
| 1:33.2 | one indictment to supersede them all. What's going on? |
| 1:39.3 | Well, you know, Ben, we're leading off the show with this, but I honestly think the thing that's the most notable about it is that is what they didn't change in this superseding indictment. |
| 1:53.2 | So the thing that is kind of the big change, substantive change is just the number of defendants. For a long time in this case, |
| 2:05.2 | previously that involved, you know, nine or ten defendants, including Don Lemon and Georgia |
| 2:11.2 | Fort, who is an independent journalist. The government has said that, you know, it has an ongoing investigation, that it |
| 2:20.1 | wants to track down and arrest every single one of the protesters who were present in |
| 2:25.3 | City's Church on that day. And sure enough, what they appear to have done is now indicted a total of 39 people in relation to |
| 2:37.6 | this protest. |
| 2:40.6 | But, you know, we've talked before about some of the potential problems in this indictment, |
| 2:48.1 | including things like the way that they've framed the conspiracy |
| 2:54.9 | against rights charge, the predicate of it being, you know, framing it as like a First |
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