Episode 122: That Didn’t Fly for Buchanan…

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney discuss and debate: The district court ruling in Trump v. Committee on Oversight, in which the court rejects an attempt to quash a subpoena directed at an accounting firm that handled work for various Trump organizations. The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion asserting blanket testimonial immunity for former White House Counsel Don McGahan. The prospect that President Trump might invoke the Insurrection Act in order to have authority either to bring state National Guard forces of federal armed forces into service in relation to the capture and removal of migrants inside the United States. The prospect that President Trump will issue pardons to U.S. servicemembers subject to court martial for war crimes. The prospect that SCOTUS or Congress might one day modify the Feres doctrine, which precludes servicemembers from suing under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The conviction of a naturalized U.S. citizen from Lebanon who had became an agent for Hezbollah's external operations arm. The 20-year sentence meted out to a former CIA and DIA officer who passed classified information to Chinese authorities. And of course we have something to say about the finale of Game of Thrones!

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 122 of the National Security Law podcast, brought to you by the Strauss Center, the University of Texas.
0:18.0	Today is Tuesday, May 21st, 2019.
0:21.8	I'm Bobby Chesman.
0:23.9	I'm Steve Lottick.
0:26.7	That was a pregnant pause there. That was a delayed reaction.
0:27.8	It was like, is there a mystery guest?
0:29.1	No, it's just me.
0:29.9	I'm just, you know, I'm wallowing in misery over the latest Mets news.
0:34.0	Oh, I thought you were going to finish that sentence by saying you were wallowing in misery
0:37.7	over the Game of Thrones finale.
0:39.4	No, I'm really not.
0:40.6	We'll talk more about it.
0:41.6	I thought, so I thought it was really, really good up until a particular moment and it
0:46.8	just should have ended there.
0:48.2	And then, spoiler alert, like, you know, I think if they just lopped off the back
0:52.0	X number of minutes of the episode, it actually would have been fantastic.
0:54.4	Yeah, it really was two things.
0:55.3	Well, we'll get into the details.
0:56.4	But I will say, the highlight of the Game of Thrones season finale was the last teaser
1:01.9	before it started.
1:04.8	Okay.
1:05.6	Well, I cannot wait to.
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