The National Security Law Podcast – Unpacking the Legal Issues Behind the Headlines

Episode 179: This Podcast Is “Considerably Recalibrated”

So we took a week off without warning because, you know, 2020. But we’re back, and we sure don’t lack for things to discuss and debate! Tune in as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney... Read More

Episode 178: What Would Robert Jackson Do?

We are back after a week off, and apparently your co-hosts used the extra time to sharpen disagreements about old school topics like … GTMO! Tune in for: An extended debate over the D.C. Circuit’s Al... Read More

Episode 177: This Podcast Does Not Have a Navy

We are back with a new episode, bringing you respectful disagreements and discussion–not to mention heaps of frivolity–about the latest national security law news. This week, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss: Attorney General... Read More

Episode 176: This Podcast Won’t Play Football This Fall

We were out last week…what’d we miss? Oh. So, there was much we could have covered this week, but we decided to focus on these three: The First Circuit ruling vacating the Tsarnaev (Boston Marathon... Read More

Episode 175: The President Has No Authority to Delay This Podcast

We delay this program just fine without his help, thank you very much. Well, I guess you can see what we are leading with this evening. The run-of-show: President Trump’s suggestion about delaying the election... Read More

Episode 174: Portland Trailblazing

This week we don’t lack for topics, to say the least. Tune in for in-the-weeds discussion of: Trumplandia meets Portlandia 1: What’s the legal basis for DHS components engaging in law enforcement activity there? Trumplandia... Read More

Episode 173: This Is John Roberts’s Podcast

We’re back, with a Supreme-Court focused episode! Tune in for: The Supreme Court’s twin decisions in the New York grand jury and Congressional subpoena cases The consequences of those decisions for related litigation such as... Read More

Episode 172: Cleanup on Aisle Trump!

This week on NSL Podcast, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney review and debate the latest national security legal news, including: Russian “bounties” on U.S. forces in Afghanistan, including (theoretical) legal implications A district court... Read More

Episode 171: There’s a Spectrum of Corruption

We’re back with an evening recording, as co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck weigh in on: The D.C. Circuit’s Mike Flynn ruling, and the likely path ahead The bizarre process of removing SDNY US Attorney... Read More

Episode 170: This Podcast Is Not Subject to (Prior) Restraint

In the latest episode of the National Security Law Podcast, co-hosts Professors Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss: Juneteenth, the Emancipation Proclamation, and War Powers DOJ’s doomed effort to get a prior restraint preventing publication... Read More