The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition

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The Lawfare Podcast is the weekly audio production of the Lawfare staff in cooperation with the Brookings Institution. Podcast episodes include interviews with policymakers, scholars, journalists, and analysts; events and panel discussions.
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Lawfare Daily: What Is Happening with USAID?

Feb 04 2025 56 mins  
Today’s episode is a recording of Feb. 3 livestream that Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson hosted with George Ingram and Tony Pipa, both Senior Fellows in Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, and Jonathan Katz, Senior Director of the Anti-Corruption, Democracy, and Security project also at Brookings—all three of whom are also alumni of the U.S. Agency for

January Minipod: What Is the Judicial Conference of the United States?

Feb 03 2025 5 mins  
On this month’s minipod episode, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey discusses what the judicial conference of the United States is and their authorities to investigate potential ethics violations by judges.View the list of judges currently on the Judicial Conference here.Read the ProPublica article on the Judicial Conference here. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hos

Lawfare Daily: Should the U.S. Sanction the ICC, with Nema Milaninia

Feb 03 2025 44 mins  
Nema Milaninia, a former prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and a current partner at the law firm King & Spalding, joins Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to discuss legislation in the U.S. Congress and recent executive actions taken by the Trump administration to, once again, sanction the Inter

Lawfare Archive: Sejal Zota on ICE Tracking Technologies

Feb 02 2025 35 mins  
From May 9, 2022: Many individuals seeking asylum or other forms of immigration relief in the U.S. are subject to a program run by Immigration Customs Enforcement, or ICE, called the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, which uses various kinds of tracking technologies as a way of keeping tabs on individuals who are not detained in ICE custody.Stephanie Pell sat down with Seja

Lawfare Daily: Discussing the Kennedy, Patel, and Gabbard Confirmation Hearings

Feb 01 2025 66 mins  
In a live conversation on January 30, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff and contributing editor Renee DiResta about the confirmation hearings of Kash Patel to be FBI director, Tulsi Gabbard to be the director of national intelligence, and Robert F. Kennedy to be the health and hu

Lawfare Daily: How the Trump Administration is Using the Military to Enforce Its New Immigration Policies

Jan 31 2025 43 mins  
For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Chris Mirasola, an assistant professor at the University of Houston Law Center and former Defense Department lawyer, to talk through the ways that the Trump administration is using the military to enforce its new immigration policies.They discussed the steps the Trump administration has

Lawfare Daily: Understanding the Impoundment Crisis

Jan 30 2025 50 mins  
This week, the Office of Management and Budget announced a breathtakingly broad freeze on federal funds—before scrambling to clarify that freeze and seemingly rolling it back only two days later. The crisis touches on profound questions about the congressional power of the purse and limitations on presidential power under the Impoundment Control Act. To explain what’s going on,

Rational Security: The “Don’t Cry for Me, Lawfare” Edition

Jan 29 2025 75 mins  
This week, Scott was joined by his colleagues Kevin and Eugenia—in what is sadly her last episode before leaving Lawfare—as well as special guest Peter Harrell for a deep dive into the week’s national security news, including:“Tariff or Takeoff.” The Trump administration got into what is arguably its first major international spat this week when Colombia’s refusal to ac

Lawfare Daily: Peter Hyun on the Tech Supply Chain and National Security

Jan 29 2025 37 mins  
Peter Hyun, then-Acting Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission, discusses with Lawfare Contributing Editor Justin Sherman the FCC’s data security and cybersecurity enforcement authorities and how those authorities fit into addressing national security threats to the communications supply chain. He covers some recent enforcement actions and issues

Lawfare Daily: Nick Bednar on Trump's Civil Service Executive Orders

Jan 28 2025 64 mins  
In today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Z. Rozenshtein speaks with his University of Minnesota Law colleague, Nick Bednar, about the wave of Day 1 executive orders affecting the civil service. Bednar recently analyzed these orders in a piece for Lawfare. They discuss what the orders say, how they might be challenged in court, and what this means for the next four