Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 1
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🗓️ 4 May 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 Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff and Lawfare Contributing Editor Nicholas Bednar to discuss the second indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, a judge finding that he has jurisdiction over Maureen Comey’s litigation challenging the Justice Department’s firing of her last her, oral argument at the Supreme Court over the cancellation of TPS, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Friday, the first day of May, |
| 0:11.9 | Happy May Day to those who celebrate. |
| 0:17.3 | It is 4 o'clock p.m. Eastern Time. |
| 0:24.6 | And you are watching Lawfare Live. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, and I am here with Lawfare Senior Editors, Anna Bauer, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff, and Lawfare contributing editor joining us from the University of Minnesota, |
| 0:51.1 | Nick Bednar. He is the only member of the Lawfare editorial cinematic universe who has his own bat signal. And when we, when something happens in the world of personnel, we, we even have a phrase, |
| 1:00.6 | we're sending up the Nick Bednar bat signal. |
| 1:04.4 | And that is what happened this week. |
| 1:07.5 | And so we are, it is a pleasure to have you with us, Nick. |
| 1:12.7 | That's great to be back. |
| 1:15.6 | All right. |
| 1:16.7 | We're going to do something we don't usually do. |
| 1:19.4 | We usually break up Lawfare Live thematically. |
| 1:24.6 | But this week, we are starting with a family. Everything in Section 1 is about the Comey family, |
| 1:32.8 | because the trials and tribulations of the Trump administration this week do seem to involve a single |
| 1:41.9 | family a great deal. And Nick, get us started. It started with not Jim |
| 1:47.4 | Comey, but Maureen Comey, his daughter, former AUSA in the Southern District of New York, |
| 1:54.9 | prosecutor of Jelaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, who won a big victory. |
| 2:04.2 | Tell us about Maureen Comey's win in federal court this week. |
| 2:10.5 | Yeah. |
| 2:11.5 | So Marine Comey, as many listeners are probably aware, was removed from her position towards the start of the |
| 2:20.2 | second Trump administration for, quote, Article 2 reasons and no other reason was cited. So she |
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