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  Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, October 9th

  Listen to Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, October 9th from The Lawfare Podcast. Benjamin Wittes is joined by Anna Bower, Roger Parloff, Molly Roberts, and Eric Columbus for a fast-moving tour of the week’s most important Trump-era litigation. They break down the CNN v. Trump press-pool case and why Judge Kelly may be headed for a due-process ruling; the twin Harvard cases over grants and visas, where Paul Clement makes a forceful First Amendment argument;

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  Lawfare Archive: President Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza

  Listen to Lawfare Archive: President Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza from The Lawfare Podcast. From October 2, 2025: In a live conversation on October 1,Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson spoke to Managing Director at S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace Joel Braunold about President Trump’s proposed peace plan for Gaza and what it means for the future of Iraeli-Palestinian relations.To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare.

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  Lawfare Daily: The U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq and the Future of the Iraq-U.S. Relationship

  Listen to Lawfare Daily: The U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq and the Future of the Iraq-U.S. Relationship from The Lawfare Podcast. For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Dr. Omar Mohammed, a senior researcher with the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University and the author of the blog Mosul Eye, which anonymously documented life under ISIS control in Iraq; Amb. Doug Silliman, President of the Arab Gulf States Institute and a former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq;

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  Rational Security: The “Too Much Molly” Edition

  Listen to Rational Security: The “Too Much Molly” Edition from The Lawfare Podcast. This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Editor in Chief and cohost emeritus Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare Senior Editor Molly Roberts, and Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution Molly Reynolds to talk through the week’s big news in national security, including:“Pocket Change.” Late on Friday, September 25, the White House sent Congress an $810 million “pocket rescission”—a request to cancel already-appropriated federal funding,

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  Lawfare Daily: Gulf Countries Hedging Amid Iran War Debacle

  Listen to Lawfare Daily: Gulf Countries Hedging Amid Iran War Debacle from The Lawfare Podcast. Lawfare Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee talks with former CIA analyst Shawn Howard and Ariane Tabatabai of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs about Shawn’s new Foreign Policy essay on how the Gulf states are coping with a war they didn’t start. They discuss why U.S. protection has made the Gulf states targets, how Tehran sees them, Iran’s strikes on the mediators, the possibility of a UAE side deal, and what a post-midterm return to U.S.

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