The National Security Law Podcast

Episode 87: The D.C. Circuit Ain’t Inquorate

08.21.2018 - By Bobby Chesney and Steve VladeckPlay

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And we're back, with much to discuss in the wacky world of national security law.  Join Professors Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney as they wrestle with:

* A *huge* ruling by Judge Pohl in the Military Commission 9/11 prosecution, barring the government from using at trial statements made by the defendants at GTMO to FBI "clean team" interrogators (in what amounts to a CIPA-style sanction in response to government restrictions on defense access to CIA personnel)

* The government in the Tanvir case (alleging that the plaintiffs were put on the no-fly list by the FBI as punishment for refusing to become informants) has decided to go for en banc review on the RFRA damages question

* Criminalizing the provision of information about explosives with intent that it be used for a "federal crime of violence"--United States v. Marlonn Hicks as a case study both in First Amendment and vagueness concerns

* Notes on other recent DOJ national security cases (Iranian spies and an IS fighter who made it to the US)

* President Trump, Signing Statements, and the NDAA: How does Trump compare to his recent predecessors?

* John Brennan and Security Clearance Revocations:  Are their constitutional limits that can be litigated?

And for your weekly frivolity? Tips for all the 1Ls starting at law schools this fall!

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