Ah, well, that took a bit longer than expected! We promise we don’t mean to let this become a quarterly show, or even a monthly. Too much national security law for that! In today’s episode,…
Our latest episode is shorter than normal because…well, we recorded most of it and then lost the file. Suffice to say we were a bit tired by the time the re-recording was done! Or maybe…
Episode 81: The Road to 10,000
- July 9, 2018
- Tagged as: ACLU, Brett Kavanaugh, CMCR, CSRT, detention, Doe v. Mattis, DOJ NSD, El Chapo, Enemy Combatant, GTMO, Guantanamo, habeas, Judge Spath, Kavanaugh, Kawhi Leonard, Military Commissions, military detention, National Security Division, SCOTUS, SDF, Senator Burr, SSCI, Syria, Trump, Trumplandia, United States v. Paracha, Uzair Paracha
We’re back after a one-week layoff! No SCOTUS announcement yet, alas, but we do have this to offer: Doe v. Mattis and the upcoming hearing on the government’s plan to release Doe in Syria The…
Episode 62: Wait–We Have to Talk About GATT?!?
- March 5, 2018
- Tagged as: abatement, ACLU, al Qaeda, AQAP, Article II, Associated Forces, AUMF, Bill Castle, Burr, China, commander in chief, Commerce Department, DOD GC, dumping, Executive Privilege, FISA, FISC, FISCOR, GATT, GTMO, Hope Hicks, HPSCI, interlocutory appeal, IS, ISIS, Islamic State, military commission, Nashiri, Nunes, override, sanctions, SCOTUS, Secretary Ross, sole organ, spath, SSCI, Steel, Tariffs, Trade Expansion Act, Trump, USA Freedom Act, War Powers Resolution, Warner, WPR, WTO, Wyden, Yemen
It’s not every week on this show that we get to talk about the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade! And if that’s not an appealing hook to get…
Episode 61: Judge Pohl Says: “Hold My Beer”
- February 27, 2018
- Tagged as: 9/11, ACLU, anti-terrorism act, Arab Bank, ATA, Convening Authority, DACA, Darbi, data, extraterritoriality, FISA, FISC, FISCOR, FISCR, HPSCI, JASTA, Judge Pohl, Judge Spath, MCA, McCarthy, Microsoft. CLOUD Act, Military Commissions, Nashiri, Nunes, Patchak, Rishikof, Rubin, Russia, SCA, Schiff Memo, SCOTUS, Senator Kaine, Stored Communications Act, territoriality
No shortage of topics this week, but then again there was no shortage last week, or before that, or…ever. So, what’s on tap? Tune in to hear Professors Chesney and Vladeck explore: A host of…
Episode 55: #ReleaseThePodcast
- January 23, 2018
- Tagged as: #releasethememo, 702, 702 renewal, about collection, abouts collection, ACLU, ACLU v. Mattis, Anti-Deficiency Act, Appropriations, Carter Page, CFAA, Chesney, Chutkan, cybersecurity, Doe v. Mattis, Enemy Combatant, extradition, FISA, FISA Amendments Reform Act, FISC, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Fourth Amendment, Iraq, John Doe, Judge Chutkan, Max Boot, Minimization, Mueller, Munaf, National Security Act, Nunes, REAL ID Act, SCOTUS, Section 702, Supreme Court, Syria, Title I, to/from collection, Travel Ban, Travel Ban 3.0, Valentine, Vladeck, warrant
Happy anniversary, y’all! It’s been one full year since we launched this podcast, and we are very grateful for all our listeners. Here’s hoping there is *less* to discuss in our second year! This week,…
Episode 53: Tanks, Bombs, Bombs, and Guns
- January 9, 2018
- Tagged as: 702, ACLU, ACLU v. Mattis, AQI, AUMF, Breyer, Dalmazzi, Doe v. Mattis, Dual-Office Holding, Enemy Combatant, FISA, FISC, FISCOR, Golden Globes, habeas, habeas corpus, Hamdi, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Marbury v. Madison, NFL, Non-Detention Act, O'Connor, Pitch Perfect, Pitch Perfect 3, surveillance
In this week’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck take on three sets of issues under the national security law heading: ACLU v. Mattis (the US citizen enemy combatant case): Since the last episode, the government…
Episode 46: The $15 Million Dollar Man
- November 15, 2017
- Tagged as: ACLU, covert action, cyber, cybersecurity, detainee, FARA, FISA, FISC, Flynn, GTMO, Guantanamo, Gulen, Mattis, NDAA, nuclear codes, oversight, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sensitive military cyber operations, sensitive military operations, standing, Terminator 2, Thornberry
In this week’s episode, your devoted hosts dig into a bonanza of national security law odds-and-ends. First up is an en banc decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review involving the standing of…
It has only been a few days since Episode 19, but Steve and Bobby are worried that fellow national security law geeks won’t have enough @nslpodcast to enjoy during long Memorial Day Weekend roadtrips. That, plus…
In this hour-long episode, Professors Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney open by unpacking the ins-and-outs of two Guantanamo military commissions cases currently seeking Supreme Court review: the al-Nashiri case (which could give the Court a…