Episode 198: What Tattoo Should Steve Get?

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back! This week your co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate: The PCLOB's report on Executive Order 12,333 The government's decision to shutter Camp 7 at GTMO, consolidating those detainees with others at Camp 5 The proposed DC National Guard Home Rule Act The Supreme Court's decision to vacate and remand (for dismissal on mootness grounds) the Second Circuit's decision finding that President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking followers on his Twitter account--and Justice Thomas's accompanying comments on ways that the First Amendment might be construed to apply to private social media platforms. A Fourth Circuit's ruling rejecting a Fifth Amendment Due Process challenge to the Terrorist Screening Database system All that, plus opening day for the Mets!

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 198 of the National Security Law Podcast.
0:14.6	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:17.5	It's Monday afternoon. It's April 5th, 2021. I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve Lodick. It's opening day.
0:24.8	Opening Mets Day for the Mets and nobody else. That's right. Yeah, that's a little reminder that
0:34.1	for Major League Baseball, COVID is going to continue to be a rocky ride.
0:39.4	And of course, it was the Mets and the Nats who got disrupted right off the bat.
0:44.3	Nothing. I mean, it's the, come on, it's the Nats fault. I mean, this wasn't a Mets thing.
0:49.7	It was totally the Nats fault, but it feels very Metsy that it would happen.
0:53.6	Well, right, because all these people like us were so excited.
0:56.2	Like, we were actually affirmatively excited for opening this year.
0:58.5	Like, the Mets are going to be good this year.
0:59.7	We're excited.
1:00.3	We're excited.
1:00.8	We're excited.
1:01.4	We're just not going to start.
1:02.8	No.
1:04.0	Well, and I especially wanted to see that DeGrom Scherzer matchup.
1:07.4	That was going to be fun. We'll see it again this year. Yes, we will. And maybe again
1:11.0	in the postseason. In exchange, we got, I think, one of the great college basketball games of all
1:15.0	time. Boy, yeah. I made the right call staying up to watch that game. That really was a jaw-dropping
1:24.3	finish. I mean... Not just the finish. I mean, the... No, the whole game was good.
1:28.5	Like, this is... So, you know, of course, everyone on Twitter wants to, you know, wants to show how smart
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