Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchShort Circuit 420 | A Lease for the Girlfriend
Evan Lisull of IJ tells us of a guy on probation who seems to have been pretty clever with his living arrangements. The police often don’t need a war…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Short Circuit 419 | Inspecting Your Business
We welcome on Sam MacRoberts of the Kansas Justice Institute for an inspection of the Fourth Amendment. Sam is the General Counsel and Litigation Dir…
7 months ago
Short Circuit 418 | ICE Detention and Booze-Sniffing Dogs
[Note: This episode was down for a couple days but has been reposted. It originally dropped on March 6, 2026.] If you’ve ever wondered if a sniff is …
7 months, 1 week ago
Short Circuit 417 | Settling with Spicy Chicken
Litigation is a risky business. Borrowing tens of millions of dollars to win a lawsuit is even more risky. And it turns out makes settling a case esp…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Short Circuit 416 | Kansas Two-Steps
In Colorado marijuana is legal under state law. In Kansas it is not. This had led Kansan police officers to stop a lot of cars with out-of-state plat…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Short Circuit 415 | Originalism at Stanford
An all-star conversation among Stanford professors, recorded live before Stanford students, about originalism and how it interacts with recent cases …
8 months ago
Short Circuit 414 | Should You Sue YouTube or Work With It?
If you own rights to movies or shows and would prefer them to not end up on YouTube for free this is an episode for you. Dan Knepper of IJ explains h…
8 months, 1 week ago
Short Circuit 413 | Economic Freedom, History, and Tradition
IJ’s John Wrench journeys to New Orleans to chat with some legal scholars on their recent work on all kinds of IJ-adjacent questions, especially as t…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Short Circuit 412 | “Nothing to see here”
Lovers of municipal crime and corruption—and internal affairs departments not doing their jobs—may enjoy the stories this week from Detroit and Balti…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Short Circuit 411 | Don’t Forget Your Receipt
When you pay your bail money it’s a good practice to get a receipt. A woman in Mississippi found that out the hard way when she was arrested on prett…
9 months ago