Lawfare Archive: Exploding Pagers and Air Strikes

Lawfare Daily: Can State Laws Protect Against Misuse of the National Guard?

On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sits down with Liza Goitein and Joseph Nunn of the Liberty and Security Program at the Brennan Center, and Lawfare Senior Editor Loren Voss. They talk about the state laws governing the National Guard—what they allow, what they prohibit, and what it means for domestic deployments in the United States. What is the National Guard allowed to do, especially when operating in a hybrid status where the mission is defined by the president but the governor retains command and control? State laws are complex, varied, and sometimes facially unconstitutional.  The Brennan Center recently published a compendium of those state laws at https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/state-and-territorial-laws-governing-national-guard [https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/state-and-territorial-laws-governing-national-guard].  ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Ask Lawfare Anything: July 2026

On this month's Ask Lawfare Anything, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Foreign Policy Editors Dan Byman and Dana Stuster to answer questions submitted by Lawfare material supporters. Access to this event is available exclusively for Lawfare material supporters. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Lawfare Daily: Inside Zelensky’s Disastrous Decision to Fire Ukraine’s Minister of Defense

On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to Francis Farrell, a front line reporter at the Kyiv Independent, about the Ukrainian president’s decision to replace the country’s Minister of Defense, the mass protests it caused, and how the decision will impact the course of the war. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Lawfare Daily: How To Make a Patriot, with Fabian Hoffman

On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to Fabian Hoffman, a senior research fellow at the Programme for Ukraine and Full-Spectrum Threats at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, about what it would take for Ukraine to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, if the United States had given it the license to do so. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 17

In a live conversation on YouTube [https://youtube.com/live/jixC-a72Jfo], Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff to discuss the confirmation hearing for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, subpoenas sent to New York Times reporters, a judicial opinion voiding President Trump’s settlement with the IRS, and more. You can find information on legal challenges to Trump administration actions here [https://www.lawfaremedia.org/trumplitigationtracker]. And check out Lawfare’s new homepage on the litigation [https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/trials-of-the-trump-administration], new Bluesky account [https://bsky.app/profile/trumplitigation.lawfaremedia.org], and new WITOAD merch [https://thelawfarestore.com/]. To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare [http://www.patreon.com/lawfare]. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.