Just in time for your weekend entertainment, NSL Podcast is back with a new episode. This time the show was recorded live before a (Zoom-based) audience of Texas Law alumni, which made for a nice…
Episode 193: ‘Tis Better to Have Impeached and Lost …
- February 3, 2021
- Tagged as: al Qosi, Brandenburg, Bull Durham, confirmation hearing, D.C. Circuit, DFTO, DHS, Durham Bulls, Garland, GTMO, Guantanamo, Hambali, Impeachment, incitement, Judge Walker, KSM, late impeachment, Mayorkas, military commission, Philip Sundel, Proud Boys, prudential standing, right of access, SCOTUS, terrorist organization, the Wall, Trump, vaccination, vaccine
This week on NSL Podcast, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss The proposition that the First Amendment (particularly the Brandenburg rule) might matter for the Senate’s trial of the impeachment of Donald Trump The D.C….
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…
We’re back, with a Supreme-Court focused episode! Tune in for: The Supreme Court’s twin decisions in the New York grand jury and Congressional subpoena cases The consequences of those decisions for related litigation such as…
Episode 172: Cleanup on Aisle Trump!
- July 2, 2020
- Tagged as: Adham Hassoun, ATS, AUMF, Boumediene, bounties, clear and convincing evidence, encryption, extraterritorial, freedom of the press, FSIA, going dark, Hamilton, Julian Assange, Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Kennedy, lawful access, LEAD Act, PDB, Removal, Russia, SCOTUS, Section 412, USA PATRIOT Act, Verdugo-Urquidez, wikileaks, Zadvydas
This week on NSL Podcast, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney review and debate the latest national security legal news, including: Russian “bounties” on U.S. forces in Afghanistan, including (theoretical) legal implications A district court…
We’re back with an evening recording, as co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck weigh in on: The D.C. Circuit’s Mike Flynn ruling, and the likely path ahead The bizarre process of removing SDNY US Attorney…
Episode 166: This Podcast Has Temporary Absolute Immunity
- May 13, 2020
- Tagged as: 1001, allocution, amicus, browser history, bulk metada, Clinton v. Jones, Cyrus Vance Jr., deep state, Executive Privilege, FBI, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48, FISA, FISC, HPSCI, Judge Gleeson, Judge Sullivan, lone wolf, Masking, Mazars, Mike Flynn, Roving Wiretaps, SCOTUS, Section 215, Subpoena, temporary absolute immunity, Trump, Unmasking, veto, War Powers, Westworld, WPR
Welcome back to the National Security Law Podcast, after a one-week hiatus! (You can actually watch the recording here, if you need more Zoom in your life). In this episode, Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney…
Is this our most-substantive episode ever? No, no it’s not. Is it a sign that co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney are going a bit stir crazy? Perhaps so. Does it feature cute cameos from…
Episode 158: What SCOTUS Can Learn from Franklin Barbecue
- March 11, 2020
- Tagged as: Afghanistan, AR 190-8, Army Regulation 190-8, Article II, Call Detail Records, CDRs, coronavirus, covid-19, CSC, Cyberspace Solarium Commission, Defense Department General Counsel, escalation risk, FISA, Franklin Barbecue, GTMO, Guantanamo, ICC, lone wolf, national self defense, Paul Ney, Picard, Roving Wiretaps, SCOTUS, Section 215, social distancing, Soleimani, sunset, Supreme Court, USA Freedom Act, war crimes, Westworld
Are you “working” from home now? Perhaps it’s time to take a break and enjoy the latest episode of the National Security Law Podcast. In a discussion that takes the goal of let’s-not-prepare-too-much to new…
Episode 155: This Podcast Is Not Wearing a Facemask (But It Did Wash Its Hands)
- February 26, 2020
- Tagged as: APA, Bivens, bulk metada, Call Detail Records, coronavirus, Costa Mesa, covid-19, FISA, FISC, Grenell, Hernandez, isolation, Judge Leon, Larabee, lone wolf, Maguire, ODNI, PCLOB, Picard, quarantine, roving wiretap, Sacramento v. Lewis, SCOTUS, Section 215, Trumplandia, USA Freedom Act, USA PATRIOT Act
This week in the wild world of national security law, your co-hosts Professors Vladeck and Chesney discuss and debate: The prospects for legislative change to FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), including notes on a…