In this week’s (first) episode of the National Security Law Podcast, Bobby Chesney and I do a deep dive on the seven pending cert. petitions in the Supreme Court that, in different ways, are challenging different aspects of the Guantánamo military commissions, including the major tests of those tribunals’ jurisdiction in the Al Bahlul and Nashiri cases, and the less-publicized, but perhaps equally important, challenges to the service of military officers as judges on the Court of Military Commission Review. The episode is available here, and also via your favorite podcast subscription services…

Episode 35 of the National Security Law Podcast: The Military Commissions Return to the Supreme Court
FEATURED IMAGE: JOMSOM, NEPAL - MAY 28: Microphones and other equipment in the recording room of the MBC radio station on May 28, 2014 in Jomsom, Nepal. The Mustang Broadcasting Community building which is financed by the Korea International Cooperation Agency and designed by Archium utilising locally available materials and labour is the first radio station of its kind in Mustang. Mustang is one of Nepal's most remote regions and the station sits 3000 metres above sea level, situated on a ledge close to the banks of the Kali Gandaki River. (Photo by Taylor Weidman/Getty Images)