This week on the National Security Law Podcast, we mark 20 years since the 9/11 attacks. Tune in as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney share their views on the major legal developments unleashed by…
Episode 170: This Podcast Is Not Subject to (Prior) Restraint
- June 19, 2020
- Tagged as: 13th Amendment, Administrative Procedure Act, APA, Chief Justice Roberts, China, constructive trust, DACA, DAPA, DOJ, EMAC, Emancipation Proclamation, Espionage Act, force protection, Frese, General Granger, Governor Wolf, IAC, IEEPA, India, John Bolton, Juneteenth, Justice Kavanaugh, Lincoln, national defense information, National Guard, Near v. Minnesota, Pentagon Papers, pre-publication review, President Xi, Prior Restraint, Reconstruction, surveillance, Trump, Uighur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020, Uighurs, War Powers, Xinjiang
In the latest episode of the National Security Law Podcast, co-hosts Professors Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss: Juneteenth, the Emancipation Proclamation, and War Powers DOJ’s doomed effort to get a prior restraint preventing publication…
Welcome back to the nerdiest national security law show around! Tune in this week for debate and discussion between Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney regarding: Inspector General firings Presidential Emergency Action Documents Mike Flynn’s sentencing…
This week’s episode features an extended discussion of domestic terrorism as a legal category and as a policy category, in light of the attack in El Paso. Among other aspects, we discuss: Substantive criminal charging…
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 –…
This week we’ve got the concluding episode in our trilogy of deep dives exploring the history and evolution of our foreign-intelligence collection legal architecture (see here and here for the two earlier episodes). Our focus…
Episode 94: The Enemy of My Friend Is My Enemy
- October 10, 2018
- Tagged as: Anti-Nepotism Act, Article 2(4), Article 8, AUMF, Big Brother Watch, China, collective self-defense, Doe v. Mattis, ECHR, extradition, Greta Van Fleet, Indigo Girls, Iran, IS, Islamic State, Ivanka, Jamal Khashoggi, Magnitsky Act, MBS, Ministry of State Security, MSS, Nikki Haley, OEF, Operation Enduring Freedom, Paul McCartney, privacy, Saudi Arabia, surveillance, Syria, Tim Kaine, Trump, UN Ambassador, United Kingdom, War Powers, WPR
It’s a late-night, mid-week episode of the National Security Law Podcast! We’ve got: Senator Kaine’s letter to DOD raising questions about the theory of collective self-defense as applied in the domestic law context, in relation to the…
Ep. 54: Family Ties or Family Matters?
- January 17, 2018
- Tagged as: 30 Rock, 702, about collection, armed conflict, Arrested Development, AUMF, backdoor search, Big Bang Theory, CCR, Center for Constitutional Rights, Cheers, Cosby, Dalmazzi, DNI, DNI Coats, Dual-Office Holding, duration of hostilities, Family Matters, Family Ties, FBI, Fourth Amendment, Frasier, Friends, Growing Pains, GTMO, Guantanamo, habeas, IAC, LOAC, MASH, Modern Family, NDAA, NIAC, NSA, ODNI, President Trump, privacy, Reprieve, SCOTUS, Section 702, Seinfeld, sitcoms, Supreme Court, surveillance, The Goldbergs, Trump, Unmasking, warrants
And we’re back, with another weekly dose of national security legal news and analysis. Fresh off the stove this week we have: Dalmazzi – Steve is just returned from his first Supreme Court argument, in…
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 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…