It's the Lawfare podcast.

I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, with Lawfare contributor James

Pierce and senior editors, Scott R. Anderson, Molly Roberts, Roger Parloff, and Eric Columbus.

In the October 24th episode of the trials of the Trump administration, we talked about the

arraignment of Letitia James, legal challenges to the appointments of Lindsay Halligan and

Alina Haba as U.S. attorneys, litigation over the federalization and deployment of National Guard troops,

and so much more.

It is Friday, the 24th of October, 2025. It is 4 o'clock p.m. in Washington, and you are watching

Lawfare Live. I'm Benjamin Wittes,

editor-in-chief of Lawfare, and I am here with Lawfare Senior Editors, Roger Parloff, Molly Roberts,

Scott R. Anderson, and Eric Columbus, and former Lawfare Public Service Fellow James Pierce.

Now, what is your title at the Washington Litigation Group?

I'm a Senior Counsel.

Senior Counsel at the Washington Litigation Group.

And folks, we got a packed week to go over.

So let's get right into it.

We're going to do things not necessarily in the expected order today

because different panelists have to leave at different times. And so we're going to

start with all things, Scott Anderson, who has the first of our hard outs. And Scott is handling

domestic deployment matters today. So Scott, bring us up to speed on goings-on in the Ninth Circuit,

where a panel reversed the injunction against the deployment in Portland, Oregon.

And now we may have an end bank reconsideration of that.

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