Episode 182: This Podcast Will Keep Going Until They Come For Us!
The National Security Law Podcast
Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck
4.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
And we’re back, after a(nother) week off! What do we have to show for it? Tune is as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney as they review:
- Steve’s Supreme Court argument in Briggs — more military justice at SCOTUS!
- Speaking of the Court: whither the role of the Chief once he’s not obviously the fifth vote? Who will be the new swing justice? And what to make of the Court’s actions this week in the Pennsylvania and Alabama election cases?
- Meanwhile, over at the DOJ National Security Division:
- Russian military officers indicted for NotPetya and more
- A man convicted of material support who was nearing the end of his sentence just picked up an extra 25 years, for it turned out he was using his time to recruit others to carry out attacks and planning some future violence of his own
- Two web domains used by Kata’ib Hizballah–a sanctioned foreign terrorist organization–have been seized, for needless to say KH did not get themselves an OFAC license…
And then the long-awaited Tom Berenger frivolity! Jake, Barnes, Longstreet…much to discuss!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 182 of the National Security Law podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. |
| 0:17.1 | It's Wednesday night. |
| 0:18.5 | It's October 21st, 2020. |
| 0:20.8 | Halloween's the coming. So is the 21st, 2020. Halloween's coming. |
| 0:22.0 | So is the election. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm Bobby Chesney. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Steve Lottick. |
| 0:25.6 | I mean, it's not coming, Bobby, that millions of people, including yours truly, have already voted. |
| 0:31.1 | Yeah, I've done it. |
| 0:32.2 | We have had in Travis County, I don't know how today's numbers turned out, but I believe |
| 0:37.1 | that we've had an average of what, |
| 0:39.3 | like 30 something thousand per day? No, so the statistics I saw yesterday, which did not include |
| 0:45.3 | today's totals, was that 33% of registered voters in Travis County have already voted. |
| 0:53.3 | You're talking about the fact that the registration rate in Travis County. |
| 0:56.2 | Right. |
| 0:56.4 | Like 97%. |
| 0:57.7 | You're like, wait, what? |
| 0:59.8 | I mean, that's great. |
| 1:01.0 | Could that possibly be true? |
| 1:02.6 | That sounds like some stat from Balorussia or something. |
| 1:06.8 | So we've got this huge surge in registrations. |
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