Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 20
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and Kate Klonick to discuss Judge Boasberg’s opinion quashing subpoenas to Fed Reserve chair Jerome Powell, the government’s response to Anthropic’s suit challenged the Defense Department’s designation of it as a supply chain risk, Judge Lambert reinstating many U.S. Agency for Global Media employees, the video depositions of DOGE employees, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Friday, March 20th, 20, 26. It is 4 o'clock p.m. in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:18.4 | And if you can't hear it in my voice, I am a bit under the weather. |
| 0:24.3 | So be patient. You know, if I start coughing, that's the way life works. |
| 0:33.4 | I am, you are watching Lawfare Live, and I am Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, |
| 0:42.2 | here with Lawfare Senior Editors, Kate Clonic, Anna Bauer, Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and Molly |
| 0:51.4 | Roberts, which I think makes this the first time there have ever been five |
| 0:56.3 | law fair senior editors on the show at the same time. I'm not sure about that. Usually we have |
| 1:02.0 | a public service fellow sprinkled in or something, but this time it's an all senior editor |
| 1:08.8 | cast, and we've got a lot to cover. |
| 1:13.1 | So let's get started with our latest example of cases where, you know, the government just |
| 1:23.8 | kind of spins a wheel, turns around, and points at somebody and says, this is the part |
| 1:30.3 | where we destroy your life or business, and that is, of course, the AI industry and the |
| 1:38.1 | anthropic case. So, Kate, we have government responses now to anthropropics suits in both the Northern District of |
| 1:48.3 | California and the D.C. Circuit. Are there any surprises and what is the government saying in |
| 1:56.6 | these responses? Yeah, so they filed, the government filed responses to the Anthropics |
| 2:02.8 | on Tuesday before a judge riddled in in the Northern District of California. |
| 2:06.7 | And there will be a hearing on this. |
| 2:09.6 | What is the 24th? |
| 2:11.1 | It is going to be on the 24th on Tuesday. |
| 2:15.1 | So one week from the data filing of the of their answers. It was not, |
| 2:21.0 | there was nothing like hugely surprising, I would say. Alan Rosenstein, a senior editor who |
| 2:26.6 | covers all this, who no doubt any, all listeners are familiar with, has written a really |
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