Episode 166: This Podcast Has Temporary Absolute Immunity

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to the National Security Law Podcast, after a one-week hiatus! (You can actually watch the recording here, if you need more Zoom in your life). In this episode, Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate: This week's SCOTUS oral arguments in the Trump business subpoena cases. Is a pragmatic compromise in the works? Will the DA and HPSCI emerge winners? DOJ called, and they want to abandon their successful prosecution of Mike Flynn because...well, res ipsa loquitor. Speaking of Mike Flynn, the "unmasking" pseudo-controversy is back. FISA amendment mayhem! A bid to prevent use of Section 215 for browser records *just* fails to make it into the Senate bill, and then a boost to the amicus system--and the rules on disclosure of exculpatory evidence and on Woods procedures compliance--makes it over the goal line easily. But will the House follow suit? Something about war powers something something veto or something...is anyone watching??? And then there was the season finale of Westworld. It's like they just ran out of good ideas...

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 166 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:16.0	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center University of Texas.
0:20.0	Wednesday night, it's May 13th. I'm Bobby
0:22.4	Chesney. I'm Steve Vladik and Bobby, it's been a while. Yeah, where were we last week? What happened?
0:29.2	We couldn't have gone anywhere. I haven't gone anywhere. We just, we just were too tired.
0:36.6	Finals. Finals.
0:37.9	We got two more days of exams.
0:40.1	That's true.
0:40.7	I wrote a pretty fun exam.
0:42.5	It's been administered in two days.
0:44.4	I say fun.
0:45.3	That may not be how it's experienced by everyone, but, you know.
0:48.5	I wrote, you know, I wrote, so my federal court's exam is a floating exam, and so I can't
0:52.6	say much about it, especially because I
0:54.2	understand that a majority of my students have left it for last.
1:00.1	But I'll just say, there certainly were a lot of candidates for ripped from the headlines,
1:07.3	you know, questions about the federal courts.
1:10.0	Well, yeah, we, so mine was con law.
1:12.1	So I had, I had inspiration.
1:14.4	A growth industry, you might say.
1:16.5	Or is it shrinking?
1:17.7	I don't know.
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