Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 15
5/18/20261 hr 42 min
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and Roger Parloff to discuss Judge Boulee denying Fulton County’s motion for the return of the 2020 election ballots seized by the FBI, a judge ordering the National Endowment for Humanities to rescind DOGE-backed cancellation of grants, oral argument in Mark Kelly v. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and more.
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First 90 secondsBenjamin Wittes· Host0:00
[upbeat music] It is Friday, May 15th, 2026. It is 4:00 PM, and you are watching Lawfare Live. And I am Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, and it is the trials and tribulations of the Trump administration. I am here with not one, not two, but three Lawfare senior editors. In alphabetical order, Eric Columbus. No, sorry, Anna Bauer, Eric Columbus, and Roger Parloff. You see, I saw that C at the beginning of Columbus, and I thought to myself, "No one's gonna beat C." And then my eye fell on the B in Anna Bauer, and I thought, "Don't make assumptions." Um, [lip smack] you know, and it's, uh, been a bit of a week, so we're gonna jump right into it. Um, Anna, [keyboard clacking] um, let's start with, um, uh, the rumors, reports, indications, whatever they are, that Trump is going to, the president is going to drop his $10 billion, or settle his $10 billion suit against the IRS in exchange for