Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 22
5/25/20261 hr 38 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 discussed the Department of Justice’s newly-announced “Anti-Weaponization Fund” which purports to “hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare,” oral argument in Anthropic v. U.S. Department of War before the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and more.
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[upbeat music] It is Friday, May 22nd, 2026. It is 4 o'clock PM in Washington, DC. And we got breaking news, folks. Uh, the first vindictive prosecution motion to dismiss of the second Trump administration, and probably the first one in a long time in any administration, as issued from the Middle District of Tennessee, uh, in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And that means that Abrego Garcia has beaten both Letitia James and James Comey. He takes the gold medal in the first, in the race to the first vindictive prosecution dismissal, uh, in these Olympics. Uh, a lot of people thought Comey had the inside track, um, but then, you know, he got sidetracked, as did James, by winning on the prosecutor was illegally appointed motion. And that actually set him off the-- both of them off in the wrong direction. Um, the re-indictment of Comey, the re-indictment of James just kinda kept