Are you ready for a DEEP DIVE? We’ve got an extended conversation today explaining the stakes and anticipating the outcomes in two cases argued in front of SCOTUS this week: Google v. Gonzalez and Twitter…
Hello, and welcome back to the National Security Law Podcast, with co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck! In this episode, we dig into the latest filings in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents/presidential records litigation, emphasizing the…
And we’re back, with yet another interminable window of extemporaneous frivolity at the front end of what otherwise is a somewhat serious show about the latest national security law developments and debates (seriously). Listen up…
Episode 205: Road Trip!
- June 28, 2021
- Tagged as: active hostilities, al-Shimari, Article 51, Article II, AUMF, Begani, Biden administr, border search, CACI, drone strike, Iraq, IRGC, jus ad bellum, Kata'ib Hizballah, KH, PPG, Presidential Policy Guidance, SCOTUS, self defense, Siddiqui, Syria, Torture, UN Charter, War Powers, WPR
We’re back, with one slightly-older co-host and another co-host who is ready to drive across the country! Tune in for discussion and debate relating to: The domestic and international law aspects of the Biden administration’s…
Episode 195: Sparkly Rainbow Snowboots!
- March 2, 2021
- Tagged as: 18 USC 875, 2001 AUMF, 2002 AUMF, Article II, AUMF, foreign relations, GTMO, Insurrection, Iraq, Islamic State, Kashoggi, military detention, national self defense, Navalny, OLC, sanctions, SDF, Syria, the Beatles, True Threats, War Powers, WPR
Well, it’s been a while, thanks to the ice/snow/power/water fiasco we recently underwent in Texas. But, though tired and not very prepared, we are back tonight! Tune in as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney…
Episode 192: So…What Do We Do Now?
- January 21, 2021
- Tagged as: AR 190-8, Avril Haines, birthright citizenship, Border Wall, Bybee, civ-mil relations, Court Martial, drone strike, First Amendment, GTMO, Hambali, Hoda Muthana, IEEPA, Islamic State, Jemaah Islamiya, JI, Larabee, Lloyd Austin, McCarthy, Military Commissions, national emergency, Syria, TPM regulation, WeChat, Zaidan
And then it was over. Wow. Here’s hoping we can focus on traditional national security law topics from now on! Today is a pretty good start. We’ve got: A new administration needs a welcoming gift…so,…
Episode 177: This Podcast Does Not Have a Navy
- August 21, 2020
- Tagged as: Attorney General Bar, Beatles, bomb plot, China, DHS, draft, espionage, Federal Vacancies Reform Act, Fifth Circuit, GAO, intermediate scrutiny, Iraq, Islamic State, LBJ, National Security Division, Patel, Postal Service, SDF, soundtracks, Steve Bannon, Syria, Tom Clark, USPS, VMI, Wolff
We are back with a new episode, bringing you respectful disagreements and discussion–not to mention heaps of frivolity–about the latest national security law news. This week, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss: Attorney General…
What fun! We recorded this one in front of a large live audience at the Annual Review of the Field conference run by the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, and we did…
Episode 139: Hello from Austin…Hall?
- October 17, 2019
- Tagged as: AUMF, Boston, botnet, Christopher Krebs, CISA, Cuccineli, DDoS, detention, DHS, Elsheikh, Executive Privilege, FVRA, GTMO, Guantanamo, Impeachment, Judge Rao, Kotey, material support, Military Commissions, military detention, MLAT, NDAA FY'12, Subpoena, Syria, the Beatles, Trumplandia, Turkey, US-UK
We recorded today before a live audience in Austin! Austin Hall, that is, on the campus of Harvard Law School! Special thanks to Matt Morris and the great students of the Harvard National Security &…
In addition to quoting They Might Be Giants lyrics, this week’s episode features cohosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck taking on three big issues: The Impeachment Inquiry & the White House Counsel’s Letter on Non-Cooperation…