Podcast Episodes

Short Circuit 110 (07/12/19)

Litigating under seal, flags as gov’t speech, and dangerous cell phones.

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Published on 6 years, 2 months ago

Ep. 6: Procedural Due Process

Before the government can take away your life, liberty, or property, it must first give you due process: fair and meaningful procedure. On this episode, we trace the history of due process from 1215 …

Published on 6 years, 2 months ago

Short Circuit 109 (6/7/19)

Cursing at the police, suspending drivers’ licenses over unpaid court debt, and eight months of warrantless home surveillance.

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Published on 6 years, 3 months ago

Short Circuit 108 – Live at UChicago(5/7/19)

A Seventh Circuit extravaganza featuring Tacy Flint, Will Baude, and Jim Pfander. The episode was recorded before a live student audience at the University of Chicago Law School at the invitation of …

Published on 6 years, 4 months ago

Ep. 5 Tangled: The Equal Protection Clause

After the Civil War, what many Americans needed most was protection from violence. That’s what the Equal Protection Clause was meant to guarantee, but today the Clause does entirely different work. O…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Short Circuit 107 (3/22/19)

Police theft, forfeiture pleading standards, and fetal tissue transfers.

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Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

Ep. 4: The Navigable Waters

In 1873, the Supreme Court said that the Privileges or Immunities Clause protects a right to “use the navigable waters of the United States”—and not much else. But in the nearly 150 years since, the …

Published on 6 years, 7 months ago

Short Circuit 106 (2/15/19)

Facebooking jurors, an unpopular church, a very bad cop, and a tire-tapping trespass.

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Published on 6 years, 7 months ago

Ep. 3 All But Redacted: The Privileges or Immunities Clause

The Privileges or Immunities Clause was meant to be one of the key liberty-protecting provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Clause says: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abri…

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago

Short Circuit 105 (1/17/19)

No Fly List games and no sovereign immunity over Flint’s water crisis or Ferguson’s fines and fees.

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Published on 6 years, 8 months ago