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The National Security Law Podcast

Episode 75: I Hereby Demand, & Tomorrow Will Officially Order, That You Listen to This Podcast

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Never a slow week in this business... This week we've got breakdowns and debates over some familiar topics: Military Commissions: The convoluted proceedings in the al-Nashiri prosecution became a bit less tangled this week, as the government backed off its attempt to preclude intervention by a pair of al-Nashiri's erstwhile attorneys.  Are we any closer to resolving the overall set of issues set off by claims of government monitoring of attorney-client communications though? Doe v. Mattis: We are now drawing close to a ruling on the merits of the government's claim of authority (under the 2001 and 2002 AUMFs) to use military detention with respect to a US citizen the government asserts is an Islamic State member. The issue has been fully-briefed for some time, in fact, and now Judge Chutkan has scheduled a hearing.  June 20th will be a big day. Al-Shimari v. Duggan/CACI: This Alien Tort Statute suit against a private military contractor for abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib has been around forever.  The latest?  A motion to dismiss based on the idea that the Supreme Court's recent Jesner v. Arab Bank ruling (precluding ATS liability for suits against foreign corporations involving conduct overseas) should be extended to domestic corporations for actions overseas.  Oral argument on June 15. GTMO habeas cases: We also note the unfolding litigation schedules for some key GTMO cases (yes, there still are some!), including Hamidullin's bid for en banc review of his request for POW status.  We also check in on the al-Alwi D.C. Circuit appeal and the various petitions grouped under al-Bihani. Trumplandia: We go deep on the Intelligence Identities Protection Act in relation to the exposure of the name of an FBI confidential informant who interacted with Trump Campaign members in 2016, and we also wrestle with the authority of a president to direct DOJ to open an investigation in a particular case. Admit it, though: You're tuning in this week for an extended debate over the criteria that define a "one-hit wonder," and to see whether your favorite songs made their good and bad one-hit lists.  The question you have to ask yourself is: What do you wanna do with your life?

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0:00.0

Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 75 of the National Security Law podcast, brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.

0:19.2

It's Tuesday morning, May 22nd. I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve

0:23.1

Lodick. The Mets have won four in a row. I hereby demand that we support the Mets and tomorrow

0:28.5

we'll officially order that we support the Mets. I hear it by demand. I mean, you realize that's

0:32.6

the title of this episode. How could it not be? I think we're done, right? I hear by demand

0:36.7

that more people listen to this podcast, and tomorrow I will order that.

0:40.3

Well, except unlike us who do, who have no power to compel anybody listen to this podcast,

0:44.3

the president actually does sort of have sub power to order people in the Justice Department

0:48.3

to do some things.

0:49.3

Sounds like we have some topics under our familiar heading of Trumplandia.

0:52.3

Our other, so I think we have three sustaining members, right?

0:56.0

We've got Nashir, we've got Dover's Mass, we've got Trumplandia, and I think they are all present

1:00.0

today.

1:01.0

That's why they get the mug.

1:02.0

Bobby, it's the third quarter quell.

1:04.0

It's episode 75.

1:06.0

So I started to say this is like a...

1:08.0

We're the victors? A semi-Suscentennial, but it's not centennial, it's not years.

1:13.0

We need sort of a weekly version of this.

1:14.7

Is there a word that...

1:17.0

What was when Queen Elizabeth had her 70th anniversary as queen?

1:20.7

It was like the...

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