Episode 163: This Podcast Will Have a Very Powerful Reopening

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

And we're back, with discussion of the latest national security law news. (Video of the show here!) This week, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney nerd out with the details on: Can he do that? President Trump says he might adjourn Congress so as to be able to use his recess-appointment power. Inquiring minds want to know: is that a thing? Oh, also: can he do that? President Trump also says he has "total authority" over whether and when the economy should reopen, and Vice President Pence says that POTUS has "plenary" power in this emergency setting. Inquiring minds also want to know if that is a thing. So, we end up with a somewhat-deep dive into, of all things, the Supreme Court's decision in In re Debs. Wait, who's the judge now? There's yet another new trial judge for the 9/11 case at GTMO. What's the record for a single trial??? Meanwhile, it appears that this one has denied a defense request for access to otherwise-unavailable parts of the SSCI "Torture report." But forget all that. The real action, as usual, is the frivolity. Westworld's latest episode is on tap!

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 163 of the National Security Law Podcast.
0:14.5	We're brought to you by the Robert Strauss Center University of Texas.
0:18.0	It's Wednesday night, April 15th, 2020. I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve Lottick. I guess
0:23.2	it would have been tax day. I had a panic moment earlier where I couldn't remember if I imagined
0:29.8	or was real that they extended by 90 days the filing deadline. And I looked at my watch and saw it was
0:35.2	the 15th night. Completely completely freaked I was calling my
0:37.7	wife like we got to go get our taxes done so apparently there's a there's a there's a
0:42.1	oh marty leaderman is calling me hi marty visual evidence it would be really funny if you could get
0:47.7	enough sound quality there to pick it up and be like hey we're recording live marty what's you got
0:51.4	going on i suspect marty's calling me to talk about our first topic on tonight's episode.
0:55.2	But the, um...
0:55.9	Yeah, Roxy's on the pod.
0:58.9	I'll get Marty on the pod.
1:01.4	Karen on the pod.
1:03.0	Um, so the, um, I don't know if you've seen, there's this, there's this TV station in Cleveland
1:06.7	that has added a segment to its nightly local news broadcast and the segment is called
1:11.5	what day is it today um f i i the news is today is wednesday so they go to so they so they
1:21.0	cut to a reporter standing at like a weather screen and it's like, today is Wednesday.
1:27.8	Oh my God, that's brilliant.
1:29.2	And it's like, I have to say, you know, I feel that.
1:32.4	Like, you know, I, but for the fact that, you know,
1:35.1	but for our classes, like I would have no idea what day it was.
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