Good morning! Episode 236 covers: The Trump Indictment The Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Abusive Commercial Spyware A CENTCOM strike against an IS target in Syria The future of private prosecutors?
We are very excited for this week’s show, in which we interview Eric Goldstein–the Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at DHS CISA! We had a terrific conversation, with a focus on (1) understanding the specific…
Episode 186: Jumping the Kraken!
- December 8, 2020
- Tagged as: Colt McCoy, Defense Production Act, electoral college, executive order, free exercise, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, Ken Paxton, Liberty, National Cybersecurity Director, NDAA, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, Safe Harbor, Supreme Court, Texas v. Michigan, The Mandalorian, vaccines
It’s National Safe Harbor day (for all you Electoral College enthusiasts), and we’re here to celebrate with a new show. Join for spirited but respectful debate between Professors Chesney and Vladeck as they discuss: The…
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…
Episode 169: Now We’re a Third Amendment Podcast
- June 12, 2020
- Tagged as: 9/11 prosecution, civ-mil relations, civil-military relations, DC, DC Statehood, executive order, Fort Bragg, Fort Hood, General MIlley, GTMO, ICC, IEEPA, Insurrection Act, KSM, Majid Khan, Military Commissions, National Guard, NDAA, New York Times, Originalism, PCA, Posse Comitatus Act, President Trump, Secretary Esper, Third Amendment, TItle 10, Title 32, Tom Cotton, Watchmen
After an extra-long break, we are back…and swamped! Tune in for debate and discussion of, among other things: The National Guard deployments to Washington, DC, including questions of status, command, and authority The special circumstances…
Episode 52: Trump Derangement Syndrome or a Distraction from the Forever War?
- January 3, 2018
- Tagged as: Afghanistan, areas of active hostilities, Army Field Manual, Enemy Combatant, EO 13491, EO 13492, EO 13567, executive order, GCIII, GCIV, GTMO, Guantanamo, interrogation, Iraq, Last Jedi, NSA, Periodic Review Board, PPD 28, PPG, PRB, privacy, Privacy Shield, PSP, security internment, Somalia, surveillance, Syria, use of force, Waterboarding
Merry New Year! 2018 is underway, but in today’s episode we are looking back at 2017. More specifically, we are looking back to predictions made in early 2017 regarding the changes President Trump surely would…
Episode 32: Back to the Future…of Afghanistan and GTMO?
- August 22, 2017
- Tagged as: Adam Goldman, Afghanistan, AUMF, Charlie Savage, CMCR, Court of Military Commission Review, detention, executive order, Game of Thrones, Guantanamo, Islamic State, military detention, Mississippi v. Johnson, Periodic Review Board, PRB, presidential injunction, recusal, Rules of Engagement, Scott Silliman, Trump
Never a dull moment in 2017. In this week’s episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney take on four topics (well, four relevant topics…do try to stay with them past their musings on home runs at the Little League…
Episode 25: So Much National Security Law News…We’ve Reached Our Limitrophe
- June 28, 2017
- Tagged as: Aburakhmon Uzbeki, AQI, Bivens, Black Sites, Chris Paul, civil liability, Convening Authority, Establishment Clause, ETF, executive order, Expeditionary Targeting Force, extraterritorial, FARA, foreign agent registration, Fourth Amendment, GTMO, Guantanamo, Hambali, Harvey Rishikoff, Hernandez v. Mesa, Indiana Jones, Iran, Iraq, IS, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Justice Breyer, limitrophe, material support, Military Commissions, Paul Manafort, qualified immunity, SCOTUS, SOF, Syria, Travel Ban, Trump, Trump v. IRAP, UAE, Yemen
Had you seen the word “limitrophe” before Justice Breyer used it in his dissent in Herndandez v. Mesa? Neither had Professors Vladeck and Chesney, but that doesn’t stop them from exploring the Supreme Court’s action in…
Episode 23: She Could Be the Ruckelshaus to Rosenstein’s Richardson
- June 13, 2017
- Tagged as: Adam Smith, al Shabaab, AUMF, Bob Mueller, Comey, cyber operations, executive order, HASC, Hezbollah, IEEPA, Jeff Sessions, material support, oversight, Rachel Brand, recusal, Rosenstein, SASC, SCOTUS, Somalia, Supreme Court, Thornberry, Travel Ban, Trump
In this episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney come up with a tongue-twister of a title while exploring the legal fallout from the Comey testimony last week, including discussions of (1) whether Comey’s actions were illegal…
Episode 22: A Dose of Reality
- June 6, 2017
- Tagged as: Carpenter v. United States, Comey, ECPA, Espionage Act, executive order, Flynn, Fourth Amendment, Kuschner, Non-Content Information, Reality Winner, Riley v. California, SCA, Search, Smith v. Maryland, Stored Communications Act, Third Party Doctrine, Travel Ban, Trump, United States v. Jones, United States v. Miller
In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck have a full plate. The arrest of a contractor named Reality Winner (for having stolen classified information relating to Russian efforts to hack a voting-machine system and providing that…