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The National Security Law Podcast

Episode 62: Wait–We Have to Talk About GATT?!?

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It's not every week on this show that we get to talk about the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade!  And if that's not an appealing hook to get you to listen, we don't know what is.  Ahem.... Let's try that again.  On this week's show, Professors Vladeck and Chesney cover a mix of new and old topics: President Trump's invocation of national security to justify new tariffs on steel imports: is it plausible from a legal perspective? The war(s) in Yemen, a proposed joint resolution to limit America's military roles there, and a statement from DOD's GC providing a snapshot of views regarding the legal issues raised by those roles (including a gesture towards a Commander-in-Chief override argument should such a resolution somehow become law). Checking in with our crisis-ridden military commission system: Nashiri's last remaining attorney argues that the CMCR lacks jurisdiction to hear an interlocutory appeal from Judge Spath's abatement decision. FISA, the FISCOR, and SCOTUS (we love acronyms!): join us for some fed courts nerdistry on the surprisingly-limited pathways for a FISCOR ruling to make it to SCOTUS (prompted by the pending ACLU/MFIA litigation seeking increased transparency for FISC opinions). Did HSPCI staff leak a Senator's text messages?  We check in on the growing tensions between SSCI and HPSCI. Last (well, last for serious stuff), we take the occasion of the recent Hope Hicks testimony to remind listeners how executive privilege invocations in Congress are supposed to work. Actually last, frivolity is back, albeit briefly (what an odd sentence).  Your mission, should you choose to accept it: What are the greatest TV dramas of all time?  Mini-series excluded, but doesn't have to be broadcast network TV.  Listen to the end to see if you agree with our take!  And, finally: please spread the word about the podcast!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 62 of the National Security Law Podcast.

0:14.1

We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.

0:17.0

I'm Bobby Chesman.

0:18.1

I'm Steve Vladic.

0:19.0

Bobby, what day is it?

0:20.9

Well, it's a complicated question.

0:22.5

We're kind of recording in time capsule mode.

0:25.1

Uh-oh.

0:25.6

This is always a dangerous proposition, especially these days.

0:29.2

Now, to us, it's Friday, March 2nd, Friday of the week when we dropped episode 61.

0:36.2

What's going on, Steve?

0:37.2

Well, you and I have these perfectly counter-crossed mismatched schedules next week

0:42.3

because apparently there's a world out there that asks us to go do things.

0:46.4

Bad decision number one.

0:48.0

Seriously.

0:48.6

So we are going to try this crazy move of recording Friday afternoon

0:52.4

and dropping on Monday and hoping that, you know,

0:56.0

the narrative hasn't been totally overtaken by then?

0:58.5

So it'll help that we're going to drop it on Monday to get a jump on next week and maybe,

1:03.0

just maybe, there won't be a bunch of crazy stuff dropping at the close of the week on Friday

1:08.8

the second when we're actually recording just before that.

1:11.3

And if there is, this will be a super funny episode to listen to on Monday when it's like,

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