Episode 81: The Road to 10,000

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

We're back after a one-week layoff! No SCOTUS announcement yet, alas, but we do have this to offer: Doe v. Mattis and the upcoming hearing on the government's plan to release Doe in Syria The military commissions and the retirement of Judge Spath Over in the civilian court system, Uzair Paracha, convicted back in 2005, just won a motion for a new trial based on newly-discovered evidence (involving CSRT and other statements from GTMO detainees) A roundup of other recent DOJ prosecution developments (including the extradition of El Chapo's successor) A deep dive into a set of tort suits involving overseas military activities and the role of civilian contractors, with an emphasis on the role the political question doctrine has played in defeating such cases A SCOTUS nomination preview Kudos to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) for its strong report documenting massive Russian intervention in the 2016 election And, as always, some pure frivolity (including an analysis of the Kawhi Leonard debacle in San Antonio and notes on our favorite things about the World Cup).

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 81 of the National Security Law podcast, brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. It's Monday afternoon, July 8th. I've not been nominated. July 9th. July 9th?
0:22.4	Yeah, well, I've still not been nominated. I'm still Bobby Chesney. Who are you?
0:25.7	I'm still Steve Lodick, and if we're both here, I think that means neither of us is the big reveal
0:30.4	in prime time. Neither of us is getting the rose, Bobby. Tell the police cars and news trucks
0:35.1	to leave my house. Have they been? I know there's been construction on your block.
0:40.8	I sure.
0:43.7	Actually, Karen Maddie, our older daughter, the other day, heard the ambulance siren,
0:51.3	and she turned to Karen and she said, what's that?
0:55.2	And I said to myself, that's living in Austin. That is not New York City. And she turned to Karen, she said, what's that? And I said to myself,
0:59.2	that's living in Austin. That is not in New York City. And not, or D.C. We're really living,
1:03.9	I mean, right? So there you go. Anyway, as you said, Monday, July 9th, we're back after a week away and, you know, nothing happened while we were gone. Not much to talk about. We'll try to fill it with what? Supreme Court speculation. World Cup.
1:11.7	World Cup? Okay, let's do frivolity on the World Cup. And of course, we will do some
1:15.2	scotus speculation. By the way, the All-NATO World Cup. The four NATO semifinalists playing for the
1:20.8	championship in Russia. They better hurry up in case NATO's not there the next week. Oh, the irony.
1:26.4	Or the British government, for that matter.
1:28.9	Well, I guess...
1:30.2	Borexit. Is that what I saw on Twitter?
1:32.2	Borexit.
1:32.8	Borexit.
1:33.5	I'm going to replace them with Barat.
1:34.9	Same difference.
1:35.8	Okay, we've got some sustaining members to check in with.
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