--- title: Why SCOTUS Needs National Security Chops description: Why we need a security expert on the Supreme Court, getting U.S. veterans back into cancer trials and more. canonical: https://time.com/4247866/scotus-national-security/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-04T17:01:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:18.838Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why SCOTUS Needs National Security Chops og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4247866/scotus-national-security/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why SCOTUS Needs National Security Chops twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why SCOTUS Needs National Security Chops by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 4, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 4, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Let’s put a national security expert on the Supreme Court.**](https://www.lawfareblog.com/time-national-security-expert-supreme-court) By Shane Reeves and Winston Williams in Lawfare **2\.** [**Get veterans back into America’s cancer trials.**](http://www.statnews.com/2016/03/04/cancer-veterans-clinical-trials/) By Bob Tedeschi in Stat **3\.** [**Can we recycle soot and smog?**](http://www.citylab.com/tech/2016/03/the-innovative-ways-people-are-recycling-air-pollution/471999/) By Linda Poon at CityLab **4\.** [**Communities are crowdsourcing meat lockers so they can buy sustainable meat.**](http://civileats.com/2016/03/01/communal-meat-lockers-could-help-scale-up-sustainable-meat/) By Caroline Abels in Civil Eats **5\.** [**It’s not too late to save the video store.**](http://flavorwire.com/563171/the-premature-death-of-the-video-store-and-why-its-worth-saving) By Jason Bailey in Flavorwire  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4247866/scotus-national-security/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4247866/scotus-national-security/"},"headline":"Why SCOTUS Needs National Security Chops","datePublished":"2016-03-04T17:01:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:18.838Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4247866/scotus-national-security/","keywords":["Innovation","Cancer","meat","Air Pollution","scotus"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4247866/scotus-national-security/","name":"Why SCOTUS Needs National Security Chops"}}]}] ```