Episode 169: Now We’re a Third Amendment Podcast

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

After an extra-long break, we are back...and swamped! Tune in for debate and discussion of, among other things: The National Guard deployments to Washington, DC, including questions of status, command, and authority The special circumstances of the DC National Guard (and, relatedly, the issue of DC statehood) The Third Amendment, hotels, and originalism??? Civ-Mil relations and the weird weeks for General Milley and Secretary Esper The Tom Cotton Op-Ed and the NY Times' response to the fallout from it The NDAA and proposals to mandate renaming of US military bases named for Confederate Generals GTMO, military commissions, the Majid Khan ruling (to the effect that torture can be cited as grounds for mitigation at sentencing), and implications for the 9/11 prosecution and capital punishment President Trump's Executive Order declaring a national emergency vis-a-vis the prospect of ICC action against U.S. personnel, and the corresponding creation of a sanctions regime against not just ICC personnel involved in such actions but also against those who materially support them. And a surprisingly belated-yet-timely review of HBO's Watchmen series. Seriously, if you haven't watched it yet, get started!

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 169 of the National Security Law Podcast.
0:13.3	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center University of Texas.
0:16.4	It's Friday, it's June 12th, 2020.
0:19.3	I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:20.3	I'm Steve Vladik.
0:21.6	It is day 99 of no daycare if you're scoring at home.
0:25.6	And, you know, who's counting?
0:26.6	Are your kids at this point in a good rhythm?
0:29.6	Are you and Karen feeling like you have a regular household rhythm of things?
0:33.6	Or is it, is it, are you on the precipice of complete a breakdown of order in your house?
0:39.0	Why can't both things be true?
0:42.3	You've already gone over the precipice.
0:44.2	It's easy enough to, I mean, you know, keeping the girls on a rhythm has actually been
0:47.5	not as impossible as I thought.
0:48.8	The problem is, you know, Karen and I both have unpredictable work schedules.
0:54.0	So Karen will have like what she thinks is a quiet morning and then a work emergency
0:57.3	pops up.
0:58.3	I'll have where I think it was a quiet morning and then the Insurrection Act pops up.
1:02.9	There has not been a quiet morning for national security and rule of law topics for quite a long time now.
1:10.9	But also I mean just as I mean we recorded last, you know, in our joint episode with
1:14.4	with Ben last Monday night. And I mean, the, the amount of, so Karen calls it nerd prom,
1:21.7	right now, Karen calls it national security nerd prom.
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