Episode 193: ‘Tis Better to Have Impeached and Lost …

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This week on NSL Podcast, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss The proposition that the First Amendment (particularly the Brandenburg rule) might matter for the Senate's trial of the impeachment of Donald Trump The D.C. Circuit's ruling rejecting subject-matter jurisdiction over Philip Sundel's attempt to gain access to a closed proceeding in the al Qosi litigation at the GTMO military commissions, with a special focus on the extensive dicta concerning the standing of agency employees to challenge the actions of their own agencies The controversy that erupted in light of news that KSM might be vaccinated The delay in the arraignment of Hambali and his co-defendants at GTMO The confirmation of Secretary Mayorkas at DHS, and the delay of a confirmation hearing for Garland to be AG The Biden administration's termination of certain Trump-era cases DOJ had been pressing to SCOTUS Canada's decision to formally list the Proud Boys as a terrorist organization, and why the same thing cannot (under current law) happen in the United States This, plus some lollygagging Bull Durham style, and dueling predictions about the Super Bowl!

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin.
0:09.9	Welcome to episode 193 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:14.3	We're brought to you at the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:17.2	It's Wednesday night.
0:18.7	It's February 3rd, 2021.
0:23.4	The kids are either asleep or maybe watching TikToks. I don't know. I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve Lottick. Randolph. Randolph, we're back.
0:30.2	Mortimer! Is this a GameStop reference?
0:34.6	No, it's just trading places has been on the television a lot in the last few days.
0:40.0	And so I just happen to catch.
0:41.1	Because of Robin Hood and GameStop, do you think?
0:43.1	Or is that?
0:44.1	I feel like the channel set their schedules so far in advance.
0:47.6	It can't have been that carefully orchestrated.
0:50.6	I think it's more about, you know, HBO is trying to push the HBO Max thing so much.
0:55.0	And I think they're trying to push coming to America. And so they've re-released the original
1:01.5	coming to America and trading places and are like running them all the time. All right. So tell me
1:05.5	if they're going to do a whole Eddie Murphy thing. I haven't seen 48 hours. Oh, I don't think
1:10.1	it's a whole Eddie Murphy thing. I think it's a coming to America trading places thing. All haven't seen 48 hours. Oh, I don't think it's a whole ID Murphy thing. I think it's a
1:11.6	coming to America trading places thing. All right. Well, interesting. Not as fun as a 48 hours
1:17.5	revival. But you got the random character crossover, right? When Randolph and Mortimer are the only
1:23.7	two characters who cross over. That was, that was arguably the best part.
1:29.9	Okay, raises it.
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