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Back to SearchShort Circuit 200 | Origins
It’s our 200th episode! We’re taking this second century as an excuse to explore where Short Circuit came from and what it’s done, both the podcast a…
4 years ago
Short Circuit 199 | The Right Not To Be Framed and It’s Greek To Me
In what may be the most obvious of examples of obvious constitutional violations, we discuss the right to not have the police put you in prison. Alex…
4 years, 1 month ago
Short Circuit 198 | International Trade and Standing for Guns
Where do you go to challenge an illegal tax? Well, if that tax is a tariff your destination is the United States Court of International Trade. Learn …
4 years, 1 month ago
Short Circuit 197 | No Vehicles in the Park Remix
Fans of the Hart-Fuller debate are gonna love this one. As will normal people who have no idea what that means. Legal philosopher HLA Hart asked whet…
4 years, 1 month ago
Short Circuit 196 | 50 Years of “Our Federalism”
In addition to some other civil rights anniversaries, 2021 marks 50 years since the Supreme Court decided Younger v. Harris. There, the Court made it…
4 years, 2 months ago
Short Circuit 195 | Pride and Prejudice in Prison
What’s too hot a novel for a prisoner? Apparently “Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition” meets that standard. The Eighth Circuit dug into…
4 years, 2 months ago
Short Circuit 194 | Arboreal Takings and the Sidewalks of New York
How can the government encourage us to keep our trees? In all kinds of ways, but not through mandating the replanting of trees regardless of the land…
4 years, 2 months ago
Short Circuit 193 | Hamilton Singing Fire in a Crowded Theater
What did Alexander Hamilton tell the Marquis de Lafayette on July 21, 1780? Probably not that his letter would be the subject of a civil forfeiture c…
4 years, 2 months ago
Short Circuit 192 | Standing Up for a Dollar
It’s taken five years, but the clients of IJ senior attorney Paul Avelar can now finally get their day in court thanks to a ruling in the Ninth Circu…
4 years, 3 months ago
Short Circuit 191: Judicial Activism for Reals
Frustrated with the deeply complicated issue of homelessness on Los Angeles’s skid row, a district court took the law into its own hands and ordered …
4 years, 3 months ago