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Episode 36 of the National Security Law Podcast: NSA General Counsel Glenn Gerstell on Section 702
We have a special treat in this off-cycle episode! National Security Agency General Counsel Glenn Gerstell is in Austin to speak to our students here at UT, and (no doubt against…
Trump’s Moscow Tower and Back-Channel Ukraine Dossier: Both Began During the Election, Evidence Suggests
Congressional investigators are reportedly exploring any connections between two deals brokered by Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen and Felix Sater which directly raised Russian…
Episode 35 of the National Security Law Podcast: The Military Commissions Return to the Supreme Court
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…
Ousted NSC Official Takes Job at Oracle
Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who was fired from the National Security Council in August, has landed a new job at the Washington, D.C. office of Oracle, the Silicon Valley software giant,…
National Security-Related Congressional Hearings, September 11-16
Tuesday, September 12 9:30am – Senate Foreign Relations Committee – Nominations: Mr. Eric M. Ueland of Oregon to be Under Secretary of State (Management); The Hon. John R.…
The D.C. Circuit’s 9/11 Recusal Ruling and . . . Academic Freedom(?)
Over at his Lawfire blog, my friend Charlie Dunlap has a provocative post asking if it’s “in the nation’s best interests for the courts to chill the protected speech…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (Sept. 4 – Sept. 8)
DACA and Trump Administration Immigration Policies Rachel Kleinfeld, Keeping Central American Kids Out, Continuing the Violence Adam Cox and Cristina Rodriguez, Don’t Let Trump…
Norms Watch: Democracy, the Trump Administration, and Reactions to It (Sept. 2 – Sept. 8)
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the latest installment of Norms Watch, our series tracking both the flouting of democratic norms by the Trump administration and the erosion of…
A Security Clearance Nightmare
As President, Donald Trump obviously has the right to hire and fire his top advisors as he sees fit. However, when the President indicates he may fire someone because they are…
National Security-Related Congressional Hearings, September 5-9
Wednesday, September 6 10:00am (Postponed) – House Homeland Security Committee – Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications – The Future of FEMA:…
Labor Day at Just Security
In observance of Labor Day, Just Security will be on an abbreviated schedule with a lower volume of posts than normal. If any major, time-sensitive developments occur, we will…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (Aug 28-Sept 1)
I. Civilian-Military Relations Pauline Shanks Kaurin, Just Another Mattis Pep Talk?: How “Hold the Line” speaks to civilian and military audiences (Tuesday, August 29) II.…