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Oct 26, 2026
Benjamin WittesHOST
right.
Benjamin WittesHOST
Finally, today, I want to return us to last week's Lawfare Live, where we had coverage of the DC Circuit anthropic DOD litigation.
Benjamin WittesHOST
I refuse to call it the Department of War, even though anthropic and the DC Circuit both do.
Benjamin WittesHOST
And I bemoaned on air.
Benjamin WittesHOST
right.
Benjamin WittesHOST
Finally, today, I want to return us to last week's Lawfare Live, where we had coverage of the DC Circuit anthropic DOD litigation.
Benjamin WittesHOST
I refuse to call it the Department of War, even though anthropic and the DC Circuit both do.
Benjamin WittesHOST
And I bemoaned on air.
Janice Marie HuntNARRATOR
The issue may ultimately be settled by the Supreme Court.
Janice Marie HuntNARRATOR
Friday's hearing before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit highlighted President Trump's belief that White House records should essentially be treated as the president's personal property.
Janice Marie HuntNARRATOR
Over more than an hour, John Bailey, a government lawyer, argued that the entire Presidential Records Act was an unconstitutional intrusion and on the presidency.
Janice Marie HuntNARRATOR
The law, he said, had become obsolete in the polarized and partisan times we live in.
Janice Marie HuntNARRATOR
The issue may ultimately be settled by the Supreme Court.
Janice Marie HuntNARRATOR
Friday's hearing before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit highlighted President Trump's belief that White House records should essentially be treated as the president's personal property.
Janice Marie HuntNARRATOR
Over more than an hour, John Bailey, a government lawyer, argued that the entire Presidential Records Act was an unconstitutional intrusion and on the presidency.
Janice Marie HuntNARRATOR
The law, he said, had become obsolete in the polarized and partisan times we live in.
Caleb NelsonGUEST
and were strong believers in the unitary executive theory.
Caleb NelsonGUEST
And I don't think it hurt Justice Kavanaugh's chances that he, as a judge on the DC Circuit, had been a strong proponent of unitary executive theory.
Caleb NelsonGUEST
I think President Trump would have liked that.
Caleb NelsonGUEST
So I think it has kind of filtered from Reagan-era Republican circles to the modern Supreme Court, perhaps for political reasons as well as for legal reasons.
Hillary ClintonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I continue to believe that he is holding photos, videos, whatever it might be.
Ben MeiselasHOST
Now, in the Katie Fang litigation against the Trump regime, the Trump regime filed an appeal to the DC Circuit Court of Appeal trying to block Katie Fang and saying that she doesn't have jurisdiction and that the Epstein Transparency Act that Trump was forced to sign into law after it overwhelmingly passed the House and the Senate, that it didn't provide standing to actually file lawsuits, in the first place.
Ben MeiselasHOST
So remember this as well.
Ben MeiselasHOST
There's the second Epstein Transparency Act discharge petition.
Tony KinnettHOST
Guess.
Tony KinnettHOST
Have you guessed? Have you guessed which judge of the DC Circuit Court has been randomly assigned to this case? I'm picturing the little blue arrow from Dora the Explorer to click on that.
Tony KinnettHOST
That's right.
Tony KinnettHOST
It's Judge James Boasberg.
Keegan BillingsHOST
Judge Lamberth directed the Bureau of Prisons to keep providing hormone treatments and related accommodations to inmates who have gender dysphoria diagnosis and to inmates who later receive one.
Keegan BillingsHOST
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit later declined a stay Lamberth's order.
Keegan BillingsHOST
Sauer said, In nullifying BOP's exercise of its statutorily conferred authority to adopt a policy that prison administrators have determined is necessary to maintain institutional security, the court's order causes irreparable harm to the government and to the public.
Keegan BillingsHOST
The policy came after one of President Trump's executive orders on Inauguration Day in 2025.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
had to fight in court all over the summer.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
The, um, s- uh, appellate court in the DC Circuit denied their, uh, appeal to allow them to continue, um, using the SAVE database and verifying the eligibility of the people receiving Social Security.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
Uh, September 25th, they, uh, they lifted the block, and then today, so just less than one month later ...
Ashe in AmericaHOST
Or yesterday, not today, um, they were, they were able to, uh, to finish the job.
Don BrownGUEST
It is the correct decision.
Don BrownGUEST
The court decided not to even hear the decision of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed, by the way, the Military Commissions Tribunal and the military judge who were trying to allow these defendants, particularly Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to get out of this plea deal.
Don BrownGUEST
And so the death penalty is on the table.
Don BrownGUEST
That is a good thing.
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