Episode 181: This Podcast Has Lots of Jitter

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

They may or may not have more presidential debates, but you'll always at least have us! Tune in for this week's episode as Professors Chesney and Vladeck review the latest national security law developments: The two so-called Islamic State "Beatles" have now arrived in Virginia to face criminal prosecution in civilian court. Meanwhile, the trial before a military commission of KSM and others charged with involvement in the 9/11 plot needs a judge, again. In a horrifying illustration of organized domestic terrorism, the FBI and DOJ today revealed the arrest of five men who were plotting to kidnap Michigan's governor (apparently with plans to them hold some kind of show trial, which then presumably would lead to her murder). The Second Circuit will not quash the subpoena issued by New York City's DA (Cy Vance Jr.) for Trump-related tax records. The 25th Amendment was in the news, bigly, last Friday as President Trump's health situation deteriorated; we spell out how it works, and then argue over the wisdom of having the Speaker of the House in the statutory order of succession for the presidency Where in the world is Steve Vladeck...in terms of oral arguments? He was in the Texas Supreme Court this week, and will be in the Supreme Court of the United States next Tuesday (for Briggs). Meanwhile, we have one word of advice and one homework assignment for y'all: ADVICE: WATCH TED LASSO! HOMEWORK: Be prepared to identify the top 5 best, and bottom 5 worst, Tom Berenger movies (for next week's frivolity)!

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin. Welcome to episode 181 of the National Security Law podcast. We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. It's Thursday afternoon, October 8th, 2020. I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:24.6	I think I'm Steve Vloddick. Mr. Chief Justice may please the court? Is that this?
0:30.9	Are you only used now to being online to talk to various levels of Supreme Court justice? Is that the deal?
0:39.4	No, but it is funny that I was on,
0:44.1	I went from a zoo, so I did the Zoom argument in the Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday. And then my next Zoom was like a reunion planning call for the, for Amherst College for our 20th reunion next year.
0:50.9	And it was like, you know, when you're on the Zoom with the Texas Supreme was like, Chief Justice, Hecht, when you're on the Zoom with parents of small kids who have been
0:58.0	using their Zoom accounts for schooling, it's like, you know, Jonah's mom. Well, hopefully you
1:04.7	kept the different styles distinguished. We should note, dear listeners, that Steve has, he's just off arguing to the Supreme
1:13.1	Court of Texas and is on the verge of arguing to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1:18.4	We'll have to have sort of a, where is Steve arguing now segment later in the show to recap
1:23.7	how it's going to go.
1:25.8	I'm looking forward to this time next week when the answer is only with Karen.
1:32.7	Nice. Well, well, well played, sir. The best part is the technological inversion. So the Supreme Court of Texas is Zoom, and it's like live video, and they put it up on the internet. it's a live stream video on the internet and then
1:44.7	there's the supreme court of the united states and i bobby i have spent more time than i care to
1:49.0	admit in the last 24 hours trying to find somewhere in austin where i can have a speaker phone that
1:55.3	is not connected to voice over internet protocol but is actually an old-fashioned landline interesting
2:00.7	guy you would think uh the university would be filled with that, but I guess...
2:04.2	You would like to think that, wouldn't you? But actually, in fact, I have learned that there is not
2:09.1	a single hardwired landline phone anywhere on the premises of the University of Texas School of Law.
2:14.7	So did you find one?
2:16.1	Eventually.
2:17.0	Why is this necessary for the
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