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Back to SearchShort Circuit 323 | Poor Behavior
We’re gonna read you the Riot Act. Again. An old friend of Short Circuit returns, the Anti-Riot Act. Perhaps (?) named in homage to its 18th century …
2 years, 1 month ago
Short Circuit 322 | Neighbors
Stories we hope our listeners can relate to this week: borrowing cars and lousy neighbors. First, from the Sixth Circuit, IJ’s Rob Frommer details ho…
2 years, 1 month ago
Short Circuit 321 | A Tale of Two Prisons
We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of this podcast. But if we could we’d tell you all about the CIA’s involvement in a prison at Guantanam…
2 years, 1 month ago
Short Circuit 320 | Spy Cameras
We revisit an issue that’s really coming into focus: cameras on poles and how they stand up to the Fourth Amendment. Mike Greenberg of IJ comes by to…
2 years, 2 months ago
Short Circuit 319 | Baptism By Venue
Two wild stories this week, one biblical and one of a more secular nature—but still wild. Jeff Redfern of IJ tells of a Texan judicial shootout in a …
2 years, 2 months ago
Short Circuit 318 | Is Coding Speech?
An all Seventh Circuit, all Chicago episode. IJ attorney Andrew Ward drops in to tell a tale of online support for terrorists. Or at least FBI agents…
2 years, 2 months ago
Short Circuit 317 | Live at the University of Virginia!
The Short Circuit roadshow comes to UVA in Charlottesville, Virginia, where we finally focus on the Fourth Circuit. Fresh off her Supreme Court argum…
2 years, 2 months ago
Short Circuit 316 | Unaccountable
Is qualified immunity a narrow doctrine focused on protecting the police when they make “split second decisions”? If you listen to its defenders you …
2 years, 3 months ago
Short Circuit 315 | A Day at the Races
A bit of a free speech derby this week, one opinion about free speech itself and another about how to just get to the First Amendment in the first pl…
2 years, 3 months ago
Short Circuit 314 | That’s Gold, Jerry, Gold!
Everyone says we need more housing, right? Not all local governments agree. Maybe they’re fine with more housing over there but not where developers …
2 years, 3 months ago