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Episode 184: Make Rule 11 Great Again!

• November 11, 2020
• Tagged as: Boston Massacre, Brandenburg, ByteDance, CFIUS, Christopher Miller, Cohen-Watnick, Defense Department, Federal Vacancies Reform Act, General Services, GSA, Guantanamo, IEEPA, incitement, John Adams, Jones Day, Kash Patel, Mets, Michael Ellis, presidential transition, Secretary of Defense, Tata, TikTok, True Threats, vacancies

In this week’s episode, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate: The array of firings and appointments of senior Defense Department officials The law governing the General Services Administration and support for presidential…

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Episode 183: It’s Late, and We’re Loopy

• November 5, 2020
• Tagged as: election

We are back, but alas we’re here to talk about the election!  If you were hoping for a national security-focused escape from the election, well, we’ll make it up to you soon)!

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Episode 182: This Podcast Will Keep Going Until They Come For Us!

• October 21, 2020
• Tagged as: Briggs, Chief Justice Roberts, election, IEEPA, Kata'ib Hizballah, National Security Division, NotPetya, OFAC, sanctions, Sandworm, SCOTUS, Tom Berenger

And we’re back, after a(nother) week off!  What do we have to show for it? Tune is as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney as they review: Steve’s Supreme Court argument in Briggs — more military…

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Episode 181: This Podcast Has Lots of Jitter

• October 8, 2020
• Tagged as: 25th Amendment, 9/11, Beatles, Berenger, Briggs, Domestic Terrorism, GTMO, IS, Islamic State, kidnapping, KSM, Michigan, military commission, Succession, tax returns, Trump, Whitmer

They may or may not have more presidential debates, but you’ll always at least have us!  Tune in for this week’s episode as Professors Chesney and Vladeck review the latest national security law developments: The…

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Episode 180: This Podcast Really Should Be Weekly…

• September 29, 2020
• Tagged as: 702, 9/11 trial, ACB, Amy Coney Barrett, Anti-Riot Act, Berghdahl, Brandenberg, debate, FBI, First Amendment, FISA, FISC, Fourth Amendment, Ginsburg, GTMO, IEEPA, Immigration Judge, incitement, metadata, military commission, Miselis, Moalin, NSA, RAM, RBG, rule of law, Section 215, Smith v. Maryland, TikTok, Trump, Trump Taxes, WeChat

We’re not a biweekly show, we promise!  It just seems that way sometimes…like this week, when we are bringing you: Discussing the passing of Justice Ginsburg and potential implications of the Amy Coney Barrett nomination…

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Episode 179: This Podcast Is “Considerably Recalibrated”

• September 15, 2020
• Tagged as: al Shabaab, al Shabab, Assad, assassination, Associated Forces, AUMF, Baby Yoda, break in service, CFIUS, Charlie Savage, defamation, double-jeopardy, drone strike, EO 12333, Eric Schmitt, Espionage Act, Federal Tort Claims Act, FTCA, IEEPA, John Bolton, Kenya, Lochner, Manda, Mandalorian, New York Times, public health, rational basis review, Somalia, TikTok, Trump, UCMJ, WeChat, Westfall Act, Williamson v. Lee Optical

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…

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Episode 178: What Would Robert Jackson Do?

• August 31, 2020
• Tagged as: al Hela, AUMF, Boumediene, Charming Betsy, Due Process, Eisentrager, Fifth Amendment, GTMO, Guantanamo, Hatch Act, Judge Lamberth, Judge Rao, material support, Military Commissions, military detention, NDAA FY'12, security internment, substantial support, Uthman, Verdugo-Urquidez

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…

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Episode 177: This Podcast Does Not Have a Navy

• August 21, 2020
• Tagged as: Attorney General Bar, Beatles, bomb plot, China, DHS, draft, espionage, Federal Vacancies Reform Act, Fifth Circuit, GAO, intermediate scrutiny, Iraq, Islamic State, LBJ, National Security Division, Patel, Postal Service, SDF, soundtracks, Steve Bannon, Syria, Tom Clark, USPS, VMI, Wolff

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…

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

• August 10, 2020
• Tagged as: Boston Marathon, CDC, covid-19, death penalty, executive order, First Circuit, HHS, IEEPA, jury bias, Secretary of Commerce, separation of powers, TikTok, Tsarnaev, voir dire, WeChat

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…

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

• July 30, 2020
• Tagged as: Cohen, D.C. Circuit, DHS, election, election delay, Federal Vacancies Reform Act, Flynn, Hassoun, I&A, mandamus, PATRIOT Act, Portland, Tata, Trump, Wittes

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…