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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 28

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

In a live conversation on February 28Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center Chris Mirasol about the detention of immigrants at Guantanamo Bay, the dismantling of USAID and the foreign aid freeze, the firing of probationary employees across the federal government, and more.You can find information on legal challenges to Trump administration actions here.

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and The Aftermath.

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Every day, incredible women are working to keep the public safe from terrorism.

0:36.2

None of my family or friends would believe me

0:38.5

if I said, this is what I do for a job. I'm Amy and I work in communications at counterterrorism

0:43.7

policing. And to celebrate International Women's Day, I wanted to share the stories of some of those

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women. You don't know what people are capable of. You read about things or you hear about things

0:53.8

and you think, oh, I'll never

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experience that or I'll never have to deal with that and then you do.

0:57.6

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1:02.2

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1:07.5

didn't they? And you didn't just jump in the deep end? Someone taught you to swim.

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1:47.1

And so there's this accountability and oversight issue. It's very similar to the argument that was previously made before Judge Cannon,

1:55.2

ironically by Trump's defense counsel in his criminal cases. It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Benjamin Wittes, Lawfair's editor-in-chief, here with Lawfare senior editors Anna Bauer and Roger Parloff, and Chris Mirosola,

2:04.6

assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center.

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