Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 6
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🗓️ 9 March 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 Roger Parloff, Molly Roberts, and Alan Rozenshtein, and Lawfare Public Service Fellow Troy Edwards to discuss the lawsuit challenges the deal for TikTok to be sold to American investors, updates in the litigation over the FBI seizing ballots from Fulton County, contempt hearings against the government in Minnesota, 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. |
| 0:51.6 | It It is Friday, March the 6th, 2020. It is 4 o'clock p.m. in Washington, D.C., and you, |
| 0:55.6 | and I mean you, are watching Lawfare Live. |
| 1:02.9 | I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, and I am here with three Lawfare Senior Editors, Alan Rosenstein, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff, joining from the Scantzz Studio and one Lawfare Public Service fellow, |
| 1:15.2 | the estimable Troy Edwards. |
| 1:17.5 | Guys, we got a lot of ground to cover today. |
| 1:21.6 | We're going to start with the subject that keeps on not going away. |
| 1:28.4 | It's TikTok. |
| 1:30.1 | And, Alan, it is finally in litigation. |
| 1:33.7 | The TikTok suit has finally been filed. |
| 1:39.4 | Bring us up to speed. |
| 1:42.4 | What, how did the TikTok thing that everybody thought was gone forever, you know, end up in court? |
| 1:52.0 | And what's the, what's the situation? |
| 1:54.8 | So the question is, do you want to talk about the case or you don't talk about my rapidly |
| 1:58.3 | deteriorating mental state now that I have to deal with? |
| 2:00.8 | I really thought TikTok was behind me and yet it comes back. Well, we're going to get to your. case or you don't talk about my rapidly deteriorating mental state now that I have to deal with. |
| 2:05.0 | I really thought TikTok was behind me and yet it comes back. Well, we're going to get to your rapidly deteriorating mental health in a minute. Let's start with the facts that are driving |
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