Holiday edition! Tune in as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss the rapid demise of the attempt by Donald Trump’s lawyers to use Executive Privilege in relation to the classified documents found at Mar…
Well, the original idea was to have a short episode about the strike that killed al Zawahiri, and to recap the D.C. Circuit’s Larabee ruling. But then just before showtime, we learned of the FBI…
Episode 204: [Insert Inscrutable Title Here]
- June 14, 2021
- Tagged as: active hostilities, Afghanistan, CFAA, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, exceeds authorized access, Fazaga, First Amendment, FISA, GTMO, IEEPA, Larabee, Leaks, Mets, Mike Flynn, Nosal, PPG, Presidential Policy Guidance, Reporter's Privilege, SCOTUS, State Secrets Privilege, Subpoena, supermax, TikTok, Van Buren, WeChat
Hello from Austin! We’re back with a new episode! Tune in as your co-hosts Professor Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate: SCOTUS narrows the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in Van…
Thanks so much to everyone who attended (virtually) tonight’s live recording of episode 200! It was a blast. We covered: The drawdown in Afghanistan and its legal implications (for the AUMF, detention, habeas litigation, the…
Episode 199: Why Is There No SJA Aboard the Starship Enterprise?
- April 12, 2021
- Tagged as: al Hadi, al-Tamir, Anne Neuberger, Chris Inglis, cooperating witness, Domestic Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, DT, DTPA, GTMO, Guantanamo, ISIS, Islamic State, Mets, military commission, military judge, minority report, National Cyber Director, prosecutorial discretion, Senator Durbin, Shadow Docket, Tandon, undercover officer
In this week’s episode, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate: The proposed Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act (and DOJ’s January 2021 response to an earlier version of the DTPA) A pair of recent…
We had great fun recording this one, thanks to special guest Greg Gisvold (consultant and senior fellow with the Rule of Law Collaborative at the University of South Carolina) is the winner of a recent…
Episode 191: The Biggest Fiasco of Them All
- January 12, 2021
- Tagged as: 2001 AUMF, 2002 AUMF, 25th Amendment, al Qaeda, Chad Wolf, Constitutional Republicans, coup by massive fraudulent persuasion, DHS, disqualification, Domestic Terrorism, Impeachment, incitement, Insurrection, Iran, Lindor, Liz Cheney, Luxembourg flexes, Mets, Mike Pompeo, Mike Sherwin, national defense information, Pence, Pete Gaynor, Rebellion, seditious conspiracy, Trump
We’re back with further discussion of the insurrection: Is it constitutional for the Senate to carry on with trial of an Article of Impeachment if the impeached official is no longer in office? Yes, yes…
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…
Episode 69: Friday Was Quite a Month
- April 16, 2018
- Tagged as: airstrike, Andy McCabe, armed attack, Article 2(4), Article 51, Attorney-Client Privilege, Black Panther, Category III, chemical weapons, Comey, humanitarian intervention, Justice Jackson, Libya, Mets, Michael Cohen, New York Mets, OIG, OLC, Prize Cases, Rod Rosenstein, Russia, SDNY, Search Warrant, security council, Steel Seizures, Syria, tripartite framework, Trump, UN Charter, unwilling/unable, WMD
In light of the amazing developments last Friday, we decided to move the show up to today. Tune in for discussion of five things that happened just that one day: A deep dive on the…