In today’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in Ziglar v. Abbasi in more detail than you could possibly want. What’s that one even about, you ask?Damages for alleged violations of…
Episode 23: She Could Be the Ruckelshaus to Rosenstein’s Richardson
- June 13, 2017
- Tagged as: Adam Smith, al Shabaab, AUMF, Bob Mueller, Comey, cyber operations, executive order, HASC, Hezbollah, IEEPA, Jeff Sessions, material support, oversight, Rachel Brand, recusal, Rosenstein, SASC, SCOTUS, Somalia, Supreme Court, Thornberry, Travel Ban, Trump
In this episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney come up with a tongue-twister of a title while exploring the legal fallout from the Comey testimony last week, including discussions of (1) whether Comey’s actions were illegal…
Episode 22: A Dose of Reality
- June 6, 2017
- Tagged as: Carpenter v. United States, Comey, ECPA, Espionage Act, executive order, Flynn, Fourth Amendment, Kuschner, Non-Content Information, Reality Winner, Riley v. California, SCA, Search, Smith v. Maryland, Stored Communications Act, Third Party Doctrine, Travel Ban, Trump, United States v. Jones, United States v. Miller
In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck have a full plate. The arrest of a contractor named Reality Winner (for having stolen classified information relating to Russian efforts to hack a voting-machine system and providing that…


