The National Security Law Podcast: This Podcast Will Keep Going Until They Come For Us!

Robert Chesney, Steve Vladeck
Friday, October 23, 2020, 12:39 PM

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And we’re back, after a(nother) week off! What do we have to show for it? Tune is as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney as they review:

  • Steve’s Supreme Court argument in Briggs—more military justice at SCOTUS!
  • Speaking of the Court: whither the role of the Chief once he’s not obviously the fifth vote? Who will be the new swing justice? And what to make of the Court’s actions this week in the Pennsylvania and Alabama election cases?
  • Meanwhile, over at the DOJ National Security Division:
    • Russian military officers indicted for NotPetya and more
    • A man convicted of material support who was nearing the end of his sentence just picked up an extra 25 years, for it turned out he was using his time to recruit others to carry out attacks and planning some future violence of his own
    • Two web domains used by Kata’ib Hizballah—a sanctioned foreign terrorist organization—have been seized, for needless to say KH did not get themselves an OFAC license…

And then the long-awaited Tom Berenger frivolity! Jake, Barnes, Longstreet…much to discuss!


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.

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