The "Life After Cassidy" Edition
Rational Security
The Lawfare Institute
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare's new Managing Editor, Tyler McBrien, to hash through the week's national security news, including:
- “(John) Dean for a Day.” Surprise testimony by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson has shed unprecedented light on Donald Trump’s actions on Jan. 6th and reinvigorated discussions of possible criminal charges, among other consequences. Was this the smoking gun? What might it change moving forward?
- “The Prince and the Proffer.” A federal judge has asked the federal government to weigh in on whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has sovereign immunity in relation to civil lawsuits over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. What legal questions does this raise and what will the United States do?
- “When Federalism Gets Weird.” The Supreme Court has taken up Moore v. Harper, promising that it will soon weigh in on the controversial proposition that the Constitution gives state legislatures authority over federal elections that even state constitutions and courts cannot supersede. What could this case mean for American democracy?
For object lessons, Quinta endorsed a visual demonstration of the challenges of historical research posted by law professor Julian Mortenson. Scott urged listeners to think outside the box while using their grills this summer, most notably by making the most under appreciated grill option: grill pizza. And Tyler endorsed Rebecca Solnit's new biography of George Orwell as a gardener, Orwell's Roses.
Some of the other pieces we discussed in this episode include:
- Alan Rozenshtein and Jed Shugerman's article for Lawfare documenting how Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony convinced the former President Trump could be criminally prosecuted;
- Former federal judge and conservative legal luminary Michael Luttig's Twitter thread on the originalism and federalism issues with independent state legislature doctrine.
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| 0:00.0 | Tyler, I can see you are back in a room. I have not seen the shake carpeting walls of in a really long time and that is the actual jungle studio, the IRL jungle studio back at law fair offices. How is it in there? |
| 0:13.6 | I think I can tell that likewise the studio hasn't seen many people in a while. It seems like frozen in time. It's a little creepy. |
| 0:21.2 | I don't think it's it's quite so juggling anymore. I think the jungle died. |
| 0:26.7 | Not only is the jungle died. I think it is at this point decomposed back into soil. So we have some fertile fertilizer lying around on the ground in there sadly. I don't think we got a little light through those through those shade carpeting sound blockers that we have hung over the window. |
| 0:39.7 | There are over a lot of alcohol. |
| 0:41.7 | So enjoy yourself Tyler. |
| 0:43.7 | That's what I said. If you hear the clank of bottles in the background to ignore it. |
| 0:48.7 | If Tyler goes blind halfway through this episode we understand what is happening. Some of those are gifts from rational security listeners that that you know in house secret we're really scared to drink any of them. |
| 1:00.7 | So mostly they're mostly for display. So don't tap into them if they haven't been deaf to do yet. |
| 1:04.7 | Because those are ones we don't we don't know the providence of well to the lot to the rational security listeners. Thank you for making my afternoon that much more amusing. |
| 1:18.7 | Hello everyone. Welcome to rational security 2.0 aka rational security never reason. |
| 1:25.7 | I am one of your coasts got our Anderson and I am here with my other regular co host Quintet Resse. Hello. |
| 1:32.7 | And our third co host unfortunately is out a little under the weather today but we are thrilled to be joined in his rational security debut. |
| 1:40.7 | Lawfarer's new managing editor Tyler McBride Tyler. Thank you so much for joining us here today. |
| 1:45.7 | Hello. It's an honor. |
| 1:47.7 | We are. |
| 1:49.7 | Yeah. We finally got your voice on the rational security feed. Although I think you have made your law fair podcast debut at this point. |
| 1:54.7 | So we can't claim to be truly breaking you know the new stardom that is Tyler's velvet tones out on the radio waves as we would like to be. |
| 2:04.7 | But when you said unfortunately I thought you're going to say we're unfortunately joined by Tyler McBride managing editor. |
| 2:11.7 | But it is unfortunate that Alan is sick. |
| 2:14.7 | It is it is but we are thrilled to have you here and to rope you into the new rational security contributing community. |
| 2:20.7 | We have lots of new faces at law for for those who have not been following on Twitter. |
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