And we are back with more debate and discussion concerning the latest national security and law news! In this week’s episode, co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck explore: The legal complexities that followed from the…
This week’s episode features an extended discussion of domestic terrorism as a legal category and as a policy category, in light of the attack in El Paso. Among other aspects, we discuss: Substantive criminal charging…
Episode 130: In Case of Vacancy, Who Becomes Our Acting Podcast Host?
- July 31, 2019
- Tagged as: 25th Amendment, 9/11, Acting DNI, border emergency, Border Wall, Claire Gordon, Cuccineli, Dan Coats, DHS, DNI, Federal Vacancies Reform Act, FVRA, GTMO, Guantanamo, Hamid Hayat, IRTPA, John Ratcliffe, KSM, Military Commissions, National Security Division, National Security Law, nationwide injunction, NSD, ODNI, PDDNI, SCOTUS, Succession, Sue Gordon
And we’re back with a new episode, with co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discussing and debating the latest national security law news (and, let’s face it, engaging in *lots* of digressions). This week we’ve…
Episode 129: This Is Quite the War Powers Podcast
- July 24, 2019
- Tagged as: 2339B, 9/11, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, AQIM, Article II, Asainov, associated force, AUMF, Bill Barr, CID Treatment, Doe v. Mattis, Executive Privilege, going dark, GTMO, Guantanamo, Iran, Islamic State, KSM, Marik String, material support, Military Commissions, National Security Law, outrageous government conduct, Rochin, SCOTUS, shocks the conscience, State Department Legal Advisor, United States v. Nixon, War Powers, West World, Westeros World
This week on the National Security Law Podcast, with co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck: War Powers: Congressional testimony from the State Department’s Acting Legal Advisor confirms that the administration has placed AQIM on the list…
Episode 128: Now Witness the Power of this Fully Armed and Operational [PCLOB]!
- July 17, 2019
- Tagged as: 12333, 215, 702, Border Wall, Bowe Bergdahl, CDRs, Common Article 3, ECJ, Hamdan, Harvard Law Review, Justice Stevens, Luxembourg, Mad Libs, Military Commissions, National Security Law, NDAA, Noel Francisco, Padilla, PCLOB, Pegasus, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Privacy Shield, Rasul, Schrems, Shadow Docket, Solicitor General, Star Trek, UCI, Unlawful Command Influence, USA Freedom Act, Will Baude, XKEYSCORE
For our latest episode, we offer you NSL Podcast Mad Libs in lieu of show notes! We’re back after a __ [number]-week break, and there have been some ____ [noun] security law developments in the…
Episode 127: It’s Bobby Bonilla Day!
- July 1, 2019
- Tagged as: 2808 funds, Border Wall, Charlie Savage, Chief Justice Roberts, Crypto Wars, deference, Department of Commerce v. New York, Doe v. Mattis, going dark, Iraq, MFIA, military construction, National Security Law, Phone Metadata, Saudi Arabia, SCOTUS, Section 215, Sierra Club, transparency, USA Freedom Act
Welcome back to the National Security Law Podcast, where co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck cross-swords with courtesy and nerdistry while reviewing the latest national security legal news (along with a healthy does of frivolity…
Episode 126: Sometimes, “Nothing” Is Important
- June 26, 2019
- Tagged as: 10 USC 394, Article II, Auer Deference, AUMF, Boumediene, confidential informant, counterterrorism, Curtiss-Wright, cyber, Cyber Command, CYBERCOM, DOJ NSD, Enemy Combatants, Federal Vacancies Reform Act, Fifth Amendment, GTMO, Guantanamo, habeas, Iran, ISIS, Islamic State, Johnson v. Eisentrager, Judge Millet, Judge Randolph, Justice Breyer, Kiyemba, material support, National Security Division, National Security Law, non-delegation doctrine, Pentagon, procedural due process, Qassim, SCOTUS, Secretary Esper, separation of powers, Supreme Court, Trump, Uighurs, War Powers, Westworld, Zadvydas
We are back with the latest in national security legal developments, with Professors Chesney and Vladeck agreeing where they can and arguing respectfully (and, let’s face it, nerdishly) where they can’t. On tap this week:…
Episode 125: Worst of Both Worlds
- June 18, 2019
- Tagged as: Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act, Article II, Borg, citizen rescue, CMCR, countermeasures, CYBERCOM, declaration of war, defense of nationals, double-jeopardy, GTMO, Guantanamo, hackback, hostage rescue, hostilities, internationally wrongful act, Iran, Libya, Military Commissions, Nashiri, national self defense, Persian Gulf of Tonkin, Rep. Graves, Russia, SCOTUS, separate sovereigns, sovereignty, stare decisis, STTNG, War Powers, WPR
We are back with the latest national security law news, with your co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney explaining, debating, and–let’s face it–geeking out. This week we’ve got: War Powers: The latest events in the…
And we are back, after a one-week hiatus, with loads of national security law debate and discussion, not to mention some Grade B frivolity! On tap for Professors Vladeck and Chesney: Detention of Enemy Combatants:…
Episode 123: Our Gym Was Named for the Espionage Act Guy???
- May 28, 2019
- Tagged as: Bivens, Border Wall, cross-border shooting, Espionage Act, First Amendment, Hamas, Hernandez v. Mesa, ITLOS, Judge Ellis, Judge Gilliam, Julian Assange, Kerch Strait, Mark Domingo, material support, Pentagon Papers, Russia, SCOTUS, Section 2808, Section 284, Sierra Club v. Trump, Thomas Watt Gregory, Ukraine, UNCLOS, United States v. Domingo, United States v. Rosen, United States v. Xie
In a final episode before taking a one-week travel break, co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck discuss and debate an array of recent national security law developments including: Assange & the Espionage Act: DOJ has…
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