Hello friends! We’re back with a new episode. Tune in as Professor Steve Vladeck and Dean Bobby Chesney chat about (1) the fate of Twitter, (2) the national security implications of the election results, (3)…
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,…
What’s that? A new episode? What have these guys been doing all month… Well, whatever they’ve been doing all September since Episode 209, Professors Vladeck and Chesney are back at last with a new episode. …
Episode 174: Portland Trailblazing
- July 21, 2020
- Tagged as: 12333, 1806, 2332b, 2339A, 956(a), Bureau of Prisons, CBP, Chad Wolf, CJEU, collection, Customs and Border Protection, DHS, Diaz, Federal Protective Service, FISA, FPS, GTMO, IC, INA, Inspector General, intelligence, less-than-lethal round, Majid Khan, Michael Cohen, military commission, Monuments, MS-13, Ninth Circuit, non-lethal round, Portland, Schrems, Schrems II, Section 702, state secrets, statues, Trump
This week we don’t lack for topics, to say the least. Tune in for in-the-weeds discussion of: Trumplandia meets Portlandia 1: What’s the legal basis for DHS components engaging in law enforcement activity there? Trumplandia…
Episode 113 – 702 : Madison :: 215 : Hamilton
- March 6, 2019
- Tagged as: 1801(f), 1806, 1810, 50 USC 1861, areas of active hostilities, border emergency, bulk metadata, CFAA, Chelsea Manning, civilian casualties, contact chaining, electronic surveillance, EO 13732, Espionage Act, Fazaga, FBI, Game of Thrones, grand jury, Hamilton, indictment, Judge Berzon, Julian Assange, Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, mosque, National Emergency Act, NEA, Ninth Circuit, phone records, reasonable expectation of privacy, Reynolds, Section 215, SSP, state secrets, State Secrets Privilege, surveillance, USA Freedom Act, veto, wikileaks
So much to debate, so little time! Tune in as Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney plow through a host of recent (and not-so-recent) events in the world of national security law: Fazaga v. FBI –…
Episode 88: A Deep Dive into the Anwar al-Awlaki Case(s)
- August 28, 2018
- Tagged as: al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Anwar al-Aulaqi, Anwar al-Awlaki, AQAP, assassination, AUMF, Bivens, DOJ, drone, drone strike, Due Process, EO 12333, Eric Holder, FOIA, Fourth Amendment, Judge Bates, Judge Collyer, OLC, political question doctrine, Second Circuit, standing, state secrets, State Secrets Privilege, Targeted Killing, Unreasonable Seizure, White Paper, Yemen
We are back this week with a new “deep dive” episode, this time focused on the issues raised by the U.S. government’s use of lethal force against Anwar al-Awlaki–a U.S. citizen who became a key…
Episode 26: The Impenetrable Podcast Unit
- July 11, 2017
- Tagged as: awlaki, campaign finance, CMCR, Court of Military Commission Review, Donald Trump Jr., el-Shifa, GTMO, Guantanamo, Jaber, Jaber v. United States, Jared Kushner, Judge Pohl, justiciability, law of war, military commission, murder in violation of the law of war, national security, National Security Law, Paul Manafort, political question doctrine, Russia, state secrets, State Secrets Privilege
In today’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck focus on three sets of issues. First, they explore the D.C. Circuit’s June 30th ruling in Jaber v. United States, in which the court on political question grounds affirmed dismissal…