Episode 155: This Podcast Is Not Wearing a Facemask (But It Did Wash Its Hands)

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week in the wild world of national security law, your co-hosts Professors Vladeck and Chesney discuss and debate: The prospects for legislative change to FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), including notes on a currently-pending bill in the House Trumplandia and the ODNI: The statutory deadline for the Acting ODNI (now Richard Grenell) to continue to perform that function is March 12. That deadline will be tolled by an actual nomination, but failing a nomination what then? Tune in to find out. Trumplandia and the courts The City of Costa Mesa sues everybody after learning that the CDC might send asymptomatic but covid-19 positive individuals into isolation there. SCOTUS rejects Bivens status in Hernandez, the cross-border shooting case Judge Leon declines to dismiss the Larabee suit (challenging the idea that retired servicemembers remain subject to UCMJ jurisdiction. And then, for frivolity: a review of the new Star Wars ride (Rise of the Resistance) at Disneyland; a review of Come From Away; and a review of the latest episodes of Picard.

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 155 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:15.7	We're brought to you by the Robert Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:18.9	It's Wednesday morning.
0:20.4	It's February 26th,
0:21.5	2020, and I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve Lottick. Steve, welcome back. Thank you. How was Disney?
0:28.7	Disneyland was good. It was tired and was exhausting. I rode the resistance. Did you rise with the
0:36.0	resistance? I rode the rise of the resistance.
0:38.3	That's very alliterative.
0:39.3	But that was the most difficult and challenging part because it broke down twice while we were in line.
0:44.3	Oh, no kidding.
0:45.3	Oh yeah.
0:46.3	So there's even in one of the, we took the girls to one of the many live, live little shows.
0:51.3	And there was a, there was a Rapunzel version where one of the jokes in the show was when the,
0:57.1	when the, when the, Rapunzel's mother sort of, you know, exit stage left, you know,
1:02.1	I didn't even get to ride the rise of the resistance.
1:06.9	Mother Gossel, Mother Gossel.
1:09.1	That's awesome.
1:09.7	Well, we'll have a review in our frivolity section of the latest going on at Disney.
1:13.7	Of the rise of the resistance.
1:15.1	Especially that, yeah.
1:16.1	And my, wait, I got to find my thermal detonator Diet Coke bottle.
1:19.2	Oh, do you have one?
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