Episode 214: What Month Is This Anyway?

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We are back, and even though one of us apparently cannot work this new tech called a "calendar," we're excited to bring a shorter-than-usual episode without having a whole month go by! Tune in as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate: The Biden Administration's change of position on the availability of coerced statements for use in pre-trial proceedings in military commissions The news of the capture, repatriation to the United States, and federal court prosecution of a woman from Kansas who apparently had traveled to Syria to take up arms on behalf of ISIS--and the questions this raises about how long she was held pre-transfer, and in whose custody Civil suits against private military contractors, the varied legal obstacles they face, and updates on some current lawsuits in which Steve is involved--and interesting questions they raise, such as the precise scope of the "combat activities" limitation All that, plus a grab-bag of frivolity including the new Netflix movie based on Robert Harris's Munich book, and of course NFL sportsball happenings!

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 214 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:14.8	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. It's January 31st, 2022. I'm Bobby Chesney. It's actually February 1st,
0:23.0	and I'm Steve Vlodic. Wait, well, okay, start this over. Shit.
0:30.1	Should we leave it there? You know what? Let's not start this over. That's great. We're human.
0:34.8	What day is this? I don't know. Is it Monday?
0:38.3	Is it Friday?
0:40.8	That's awesome.
0:42.0	I should overlay some, I should overlay some Sonny and Cher on top of it.
0:45.8	I got you, babe.
0:47.5	I was so happy to have actually written up the intro for once, so I can just read it out.
0:52.8	That's awesome.
0:53.6	All right.
0:53.9	Well, whatever day it is,
0:55.3	here we are. Who are you? Who am I? I think I said I'm Steve Lodick. What day is it, Steve?
1:01.0	I'm someone who knows what day it is. You've got that on me, that's for sure. Episode 214. What day is
1:06.3	it anyway? Yeah, that actually is the leading contender for show title. Oh, man, that's so funny. Well, hey, we're back and it's not even been a month. I was going to say, we actually almost recorded last, we had time to record last week. We just didn't think we had enough to talk about it. Is this the Fortnite episode in the original sense of that? Oh, I guess so. It's been a Fortnite. has been a fortnight. Hey, Steve, you taught in person today.
1:29.7	I did. How was your first class? It was weird. I had not been in a room with that many people
1:34.5	in a class in, you know, almost two years. How many students do you have in Fed Courts?
1:40.0	60s some odd, 62, 60s, somewhere in the low 60s. It was good.
1:44.6	I enjoyed it.
1:45.5	It was unfortunate that today was like one of the two worst topics that I teach in the whole semester.
1:51.7	Today we did severability and facial versus as-applied challenges.
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