Episode 60: TL;DL – This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

An over-long episode with a short title to reflect a very busy--and somewhat bizarre--eight day stretch in the wide world of national security law. This week, your hosts Professors Chesney and Vladeck weigh in on: The Supreme Court's decision in Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran The Supreme Court's denial of cert. in CareFirst The Supreme Court's telling inaction on the government's request for cert.-before-judgment in the DACA litigation The Defense Department's failure to transfer al Darbi from GTMO to Saudi Arabia in accordance with his plea agreement (oh how you'll enjoy the part when Steve reads extended passages from the 2016 NDAA and Bobby narrates the 2014 plea agreement!) Judge Spath's mil com mic drop ("I'm out!"), as well as the military commission prosecutor's office attempt to secure interlocutory review (spoiler alert: probably should be a petition for supervisory mandamus) A short review of the past few weeks of DOJ counterterrorism prosecution results The government's factual case against US/Saudi dual-citizen John Doe, currently in military detention in Iraq, and the question of how to calibrate the burden of proof when it is a citizen Mueller's Russia indictment and what it does (or does not) signify. All that, plus disparaging remarks about Olympic competitors who do not appear to be skilled, at all, in "their" sport.

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 60 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:13.9	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:17.4	I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:18.5	I'm Steve Blodick.
0:19.4	It's been eight days.
0:20.6	Bobby, has anything happened?
0:22.0	No, I feel like we should just do frivolity. We don't know. Spring training. Will Tim Tebow be on the
0:26.4	opening day roster? We could talk about Black Panther, but you haven't seen it yet.
0:30.4	Oh. Just letting me down. Yeah. I got nothing other than my, my sister and my brother-in-law and my two my niece and nephew were here
0:38.7	all right and and they let it slide this time I guess we'll talk national security law instead
0:43.7	what is there to say it's been a quiet thing right check let me let me Google that for you
0:48.8	yeah by the way have you actually ever used that website let me Google that for you no I know
0:53.8	about it it's pretty great I actually did that once to let me Google that for you? No, I know about it.
0:54.1	It's pretty great.
0:55.1	I actually did that once to someone I was on a committee with.
0:57.7	So someone I was on a committee with asked a question of like on this list that like had 30
1:02.6	people on it.
1:04.2	Like the top line Google result would have answered his question.
1:08.0	And so I sent him to let me Google that for you link right
1:11.1	and if you guys don't know at home right let me go that for you the link will
1:15.0	send the person who clicks on it to Google type in the query and highlight the
1:20.3	top answer did this person get it they like oh cool thanks they responded just
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