Podcast Episodes

Short Circuit 234 | Treaties With Tribes

Do you know your Indian Law from your Tribal Law? If not, Minnesota appellate attorney Scott Flaherty joins us to discuss a recent Seventh Circuit ca…

3 years, 9 months ago

Short Circuit 233 | Frozen Lawns and Nashville Blues

Property rights leads the way this week, with a little bit of intervention thrown in. Paul Avelar of IJ joins us to present a Sixth Circuit case wher…

3 years, 9 months ago

Short Circuit 232 | Abolish the Zoning

We welcome Nolan Gray on this week, author of the new book Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. Nolan is a city pla…

3 years, 10 months ago

Short Circuit 231 | Focus on What Matters

A couple cases this week where federal courts, at least in part, paid attention to the right things. Joined by the leaders of IJ’s Project on Immunit…

3 years, 10 months ago

Short Circuit 230 | Immunities Denied and Federal Court for Trump Prosecution

Georgia criminal defense attorney Andrew Fleischman joins us to talk about a unicorn. Yes, the Eleventh Circuit recently found a state prosecutor was…

3 years, 10 months ago

Short Circuit 229 | Recording the Police

The First Amendment protects your right to record the police. Yes, we already knew that, said the Tenth Circuit. Um, you did? Dan Alban presents a ca…

3 years, 10 months ago

Short Circuit 228 | No Portable Signs

A town made it illegal to hold a sign. Anywhere. Really, just holding a sign is illegal. Sound like a First Amendment violation? That’s what we thoug…

3 years, 11 months ago

Short Circuit 227 | Salt Mines and Open Fields

Episode 227

Ever worked in a salt mine? It seems some non-union employees hadn't either when their boss joked that they might be sent to one. That wasn't funny t…

3 years, 11 months ago

Short Circuit 226 | Short Circuit Live Constitutional GPA

Recorded live at UCLA, we’re introducing a new study from the Institute for Justice: Constitutional G.P.A., is your Government Preventing Accountabil…

3 years, 11 months ago

Short Circuit 225 | Supreme School Choice Victory

On a special Short Circuit, we sit down with Michael Bindas, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice and lead attorney in Carson v. Makin. The…

3 years, 11 months ago