The National Security Law Podcast: What Tattoo Should Steve Get?
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Welcome back! This week your co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate:
- The PCLOB’s report on Executive Order 12,333
- The government’s decision to shutter Camp 7 at GTMO, consolidating those detainees with others at Camp 5
- The proposed DC National Guard Home Rule Act
- The Supreme Court’s decision to vacate and remand (for dismissal on mootness grounds) the Second Circuit’s decision finding that President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking followers on his Twitter account–and Justice Thomas’s accompanying comments on ways that the First Amendment might be construed to apply to private social media platforms.
- A Fourth Circuit’s ruling rejecting a Fifth Amendment Due Process challenge to the Terrorist Screening Database system
All that, plus opening day for the Mets!
Robert (Bobby) Chesney is the Dean of the University of Texas School of Law, where he also holds the James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs at UT. He is known internationally for his scholarship relating both to cybersecurity and national security. He is a co-founder of Lawfare, the nation’s leading online source for analysis of national security legal issues, and he co-hosts the popular show The National Security Law Podcast.
Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law. A 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, Steve clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit. In addition to serving as a senior editor of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, Steve is also the co-editor of Aspen Publishers’ leading National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law casebooks.
