The National Security Law Podcast: This Podcast Has Lots of Jitter
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They may or may not have more presidential debates, but you’ll always at least have us! Tune in for this week’s episode as Professors Chesney and Vladeck review the latest national security law developments:
- The two so-called Islamic State “Beatles” have now arrived in Virginia to face criminal prosecution in civilian court.
- Meanwhile, the trial before a military commission of KSM and others charged with involvement in the 9/11 plot needs a judge, again.
- In a horrifying illustration of organized domestic terrorism, the FBI and DOJ today revealed the arrest of five men who were plotting to kidnap Michigan’s governor (apparently with plans to them hold some kind of show trial, which then presumably would lead to her murder).
- The Second Circuit will not quash the subpoena issued by New York City’s DA (Cy Vance Jr.) for Trump-related tax records.
- The 25th Amendment was in the news, bigly, last Friday as President Trump’s health situation deteriorated; we spell out how it works, and then argue over the wisdom of having the Speaker of the House in the statutory order of succession for the presidency
- Where in the world is Steve Vladeck…in terms of oral arguments? He was in the Texas Supreme Court this week, and will be in the Supreme Court of the United States next Tuesday (for Briggs).
Meanwhile, we have one word of advice and one homework assignment for y’all:
ADVICE: WATCH TED LASSO!
HOMEWORK: Be prepared to identify the top 5 best, and bottom 5 worst, Tom Berenger movies (for next week’s frivolity)!
Robert (Bobby) Chesney is the Dean of the University of Texas School of Law, where he also holds the James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs at UT. He is known internationally for his scholarship relating both to cybersecurity and national security. He is a co-founder of Lawfare, the nation’s leading online source for analysis of national security legal issues, and he co-hosts the popular show The National Security Law Podcast.
Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law. A 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, Steve clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit. In addition to serving as a senior editor of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, Steve is also the co-editor of Aspen Publishers’ leading National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law casebooks.
