Episode 28: The North Remembers…the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998???

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck focus on two subjects: the extradition of Ali Damache and what it might portend for Trump administration counterterrorism policy, and the slate of issues surrounding the potential removal of Attorney General Sessions. The Damache case is interesting on its own terms in light of the underlying crime (a plot to kill the Swedish artist Lars Vilk, including the recruitment of three Americans to the conspiracy), and also because Ireland previously refused extradition of Damache on the ground that he would likely end up in the SuperMax in Colorado and there experience inhuman and degrading treatment (in the form of prolonged solitary confinement). Spain had no such qualms, and now Damache faces charges in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, speculation is mounting that President Trump is eager for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign, and that Sessions might be fired if he won't go of his own accord. Your hosts walk through the three major pathways to removal, each of which has its own set of legal and political complications. Finally...it may be summer in Austin, but it's winter in Westeros. Inevitably, this leads Steve and Bobby to close out the episode with their oh-so-expert comments on the first two episodes of Game of Thrones Season 7.

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 28 of the National Security Law podcast, brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:18.3	I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:19.5	And I'm Steve Lodick, and Bobby, should we have a motion to proceed to the substance of today's
0:24.6	episode?
0:25.3	But we have no idea what we're moving towards.
0:27.4	That hasn't stopped anybody.
0:29.2	It certainly never stops us.
0:31.1	So I say this because it's 2.13 in the afternoon, central time, on, what is today, Tuesday,
0:40.5	right? July 25th. And the Senate has just done something interesting, which is to proceed to a health care bill that doesn't
0:45.6	exist. Got to tell you, I don't follow it if it's not national security directly related,
0:49.5	but I hear there is a thing about health care. So, you know, I'm, I am genetically predisposed because my dad
0:56.0	actually used to run Medicare and Medicaid. Is that right? To, to, to, to, to care a lot about
1:01.2	the U.S. health care system. Of course I care. I just don't follow the minutia. What's the minutia?
1:06.4	Laid on me. We have no idea what the minutia is. The Senate just moved to, the Senate just voted to proceed without actually having a bill, without having a CBO score, without having any idea of what
1:15.7	they're proceeding on, even though it seems quite clear that the goal is to get rid of Obamacare
1:22.8	and, you know, to hell with the consequences. Well'm i'm definitely not in favor of voting on bills
1:28.3	people haven't read there there's national security law you could go out on a limb right there
1:33.8	right right you should or or how about voted on a bill that doesn't exist forget forget having not
1:37.7	read it right well which is worse that is there's a question all right but but bobby no one is
1:43.7	listening to this podcast to hear us talk about health care.
1:45.8	I think that's very true.
1:47.3	Um, so, so why don't we, why don't we tell the, the good folks at home what we have on tap for this special 104 degree summer episode?
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