Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Oct. 17

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🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Public Service Fellows Loren Voss and Michael Feinberg and Senior Editors Roger Parloff and Eric Columbus to discuss the legal challenges to the National Guard deployment in Chicago, the indictment of John Bolton, a judge preventing the firing of federal employees during the government shutdown, and so much more.You can find information on legal challenges to Trump administration actions here. And check out Lawfare’s new homepage on the litigation, new Bluesky account, and new WITOAD merch.

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0:30.3	1,180 schools have lost more than £1 million in real terms funding since 2010.
0:37.4	Go to schoolcuts.org.org.uk to find out if your school is on the list.
0:42.7	One million isn't just a number.
0:44.9	It's seven teachers, nine support staff and 211 laptops.
0:50.5	Find your school on schoolcuts.org.org.
0:52.5	And tell every parent you know. That's schoolcuts.org.com.
1:02.2	It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, with Lawfare Public Service
1:13.1	Fellows Lauren Voss and Michael Feinberg and senior editors Roger Parloff and Eric Columbus.
1:20.4	In the October 17th episode of the trials and tribulations of the Trump administration, we discussed the first indictment by the Trump administration,
1:30.9	accusing defendants of being part of Antifa,
1:34.8	the indictment of John Bolton,
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