{"id":104,"date":"2026-06-02T13:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:42:25","slug":"lawfare-daily-inside-the-upheaval-of-the-second-trump-administration-with-emily-bazelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Lawfare Daily: Inside the Upheaval of the Second Trump Administration with Emily Bazelon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On today\u2019s episode, <em>Lawfare<\/em> Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Emily Bazelon, a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School, and the co-host of Slate\u2019s weekly podcast, \u201cPolitical Gabfest.\u201d They discuss three stories Bazelon and her colleagues recently published in the New York Times Magazine. For this trilogy of oral histories, they spoke with dozens of current and former government employees at the Department of Justice (\u201cThe Unraveling of the Justice Department\u201d), FBI (\u201cA Year Inside Kash Patel\u2019s F.B.I.\u201d), and Department of Homeland Security (\u201cThe View From Inside Trump\u2019s D.H.S.\u201d) about their experiences navigating the upheaval of the second Trump administration from the inside.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=101\">Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 29<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"110px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a18a81871443cf04ac9fe58\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>To receive ad-free podcasts, become a <em>Lawfare <\/em>Material Supporter at www.patreon.com\/lawfare. You can also support <em>Lawfare <\/em>by making a one-time donation at .<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=100\">Locked In: How African Data Protection Laws Move from Shield to Lever<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emil Bazelon discusses her reporting on the DOJ, DHS, and FBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-executive-branch"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lawfare Daily: Inside the Upheaval of the Second Trump Administration with Emily Bazelon - National Consumer Reports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=104\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lawfare Daily: Inside the Upheaval of the Second Trump Administration with Emily Bazelon - 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