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Firework permits, intratribal smokes, and really just a whole lot of shootings and killings. - Institute for Justice In 2023, police in Marion, Kan.—armed with bogus warrants—raided the offices of a local newspaper, the home of the newspaper owner (a nonagenarian who died […]

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YouTube video by Short Circuit Moonshine argument leads to years of jail without trial | Short Circuit 402 w/ @RebuttalPod

Our Latest Podcast: Moonshine argument leads to years of jail without trial.

With Reb Masel & Bobbi Taylor!

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Non-condensing furnaces, drag shows, and master accounts. - Institute for Justice Friends, Indiana law requires prosecutors to produce detailed reports documenting how they use civil forfeiture. But we did a little sleuthing, and whoo boy, it […]

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Our Latest Podcast: Government Fails Rational Basis Test for Once.

With Arif Panju & Michael Pena!

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Pill-pushing predictions, off-campus speech, and a crude insurrection. - Institute for Justice At SCOTUSblog, IJ’s John Wrench tells a tale of white coats and black robes: How a 1927 eugenics-era decision warns against swapping judicial scrutiny for […]

Our Latest Newsletter: Pill-pushing predictions, off-campus speech, and a crude insurrection.

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YouTube video by Short Circuit Is Sharing Your Password a Federal Crime? | Short Circuit 400

Our Latest Podcast: Is Sharing Your Password a Federal Crime?

With Sam Gedge & Michael Soyfer!

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Unpublished Opinions 19 | The Highest Court in the Land - Institute for Justice With the new Supreme Court term underway, John Wrench welcomes Anya Bidwell and Anthony Sanders for a SCOTUS-themed romp—including which justice is the ideal dinner […]

It's the latest episode of our roundtable podcast, Unpublished Opinions.

With John Wrench @ijsanders.bsky.social & Anya Bidwell!

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Solar panels, campus protests, and not much due process. - Institute for Justice Hey, neat: Both The New York Times and The Washington Post featured stories about IJ client George Retes—a U.S. citizen and Iraq combat veteran beaten […]

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Short Circuit 399 | Weekend at Humphrey’s - Institute for Justice It’s Short Circuit Live from Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University with a D.C. Circuit special! We review opinions from a court that […]

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With Todd Zywicki, Casey Norman & Bob Belden!

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Rebellion, bullet control, and vulgarity cloaked in euphemism. - Institute for Justice At IJ’s Center for Judicial Engagement, we’ve long argued that having judges who can say “no” to the executive branch are a crucial, necessary condition […]

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YouTube video by Short Circuit Can your boss “fact check” your religion? | Short Circuit 398

Our Latest Podcast: Religious Fact Checks.

With Christian Lansinger Matt Liles!

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Indian Country | Season 3, Ep. 14 - Institute for Justice In our final episode of the season, we head to Indian Country and survey several strands of Supreme Court precedent that prevent Native Americans from […]

The last episode of Bound By Oath, Season 3 is out! How the federal government and the courts have prevented Native Americans from exercising their property rights, and how they used property rights long before Europeans came to their land.

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Short Circuit 397 | Supreme Court Preview from UNC - Institute for Justice Dropping on First Monday, the Supreme Court’s first day of the October 2025 term, it’s our annual Supreme Court preview, recorded live at the University […]

Our Latest Podcast: Supreme Court Preview from UNC

With Sheldon Gilbert, Andy Hessick Justin Pearson!

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Qualified privileges, unequal conspiracies, and a file in hand. - Institute for Justice New case! Armed, masked ICE agents in Alabama have twice arrested Florida-born U.S. citizen Leo Venegas at work, each time barging onto active construction sites […]

Our Latest Newsletter: Qualified privileges, unequal conspiracies, and a file in hand.

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YouTube video by Short Circuit Felony for taking a gun across country when you haven’t (yet) been convicted? | Short Circuit 396

Our Latest Podcast: Felony for taking a gun across country when you haven’t (yet) been convicted?

With Daniel Nelson & Dylan Moore!

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Unpublished Opinions 18 | Picking Favorites - Institute for Justice Constitution Day might have been September 17, but Diana, Patrick, and John are still celebrating. From the insight that rights come before—not from—the government, to […]

What's your favorite part of the Constitution? Anything in it you would change? @ij.org's John Wrench, Diana Simpson & @pjaicomo.bsky.social provide schmooze you can use on the latest Unpublished Opinions.

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Our Latest Podcast: Won't You Take Me To YIMBYTown?

Recorded before a live audience at @yimbytown.bsky.social 2025! With @profschleich.bsky.social @andrewdfine.bsky.social & Ari Bargil of @ij.org!

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A dogfighting legend, false positives, and 69 guns. - Institute for Justice New on the Short Circuit podcast: An IJ victory for free speech over licensing. The Marshall family has owned property and passed it down in […]

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YouTube video by Short Circuit Censoring journalists when drivers pull stunts and fire guns at intersections? | Short Circuit 394

Our Latest Podcast: Censoring journalists when drivers pull stunts and fire guns at intersections?

With @paulmsherman.bsky.social & Joe Gay!

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Big game hunts, Victorian London, and those trendy Trader Joe's bags. - Institute for Justice Where’s the (cultivated) beef? Not in Texas. Starting September 1, it is illegal to sell cultivated meat—meat grown directly from animal cells—in the Lone Star […]

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Our Latest Podcast: As Maine Goes So Goes the Constitution.

With Carol Garvan of @aclumaine.bsky.social & Daniel Woislaw!

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Predatory incursion, financial fraud, and taking your gun to a fandango. - Institute for Justice New cert petition! According to the Alaska Supreme Court, it’s a-okay to forfeit bush pilot Ken Jouppi’s $95,000 airplane over a passenger’s six-pack of Budweiser. […]

Our Latest Newsletter: Predatory incursion, financial fraud, and taking your gun to a fandango.

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YouTube video by Short Circuit Can the NFL’s Commissioner be the judge in a lawsuit against the league? | Short Circuit 392

Our Latest Podcast: Can the NFL’s Commissioner be the judge in a lawsuit against the league?

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Short Circuit 391 | 7th Circuit Judicial Conference - Institute for Justice Short Circuit traveled to Chicago for a live recording on the eve of the Seventh Circuit’s biannual Judicial Conference. In front of a crowd of […]

Our Latest Podcast: 7th Circuit Judicial Conference.

With @skonsky.bsky.social John Wrench & Chris Keleher!

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And remember, to get engaged.

Remote quorums, jetway robberies, and the beauty of our constitutional republic. - Institute for Justice New case: IJ client Khalilah Few invested her life savings trying to open a hair salon in Clayton County, Ga., but last month officials denied […]

Our Latest Newsletter: Remote quorums, jetway robberies, and the beauty of our constitutional republic.

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YouTube video by Short Circuit Kangaroo Courts | Short Circuit 390

Our Latest Podcast: Kangaroo Courts

With Ben Field & Robert Fellner!

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Cruise ships, sham interviews, and our nation's commitment to a government of laws. - Institute for Justice New cert petition: In 2015, NYC purportedly issued a citation to IJ client Serafim Katergaris for a code violation (a missing boiler inspection report) committed […]

Our Latest Newsletter: Cruise ships, sham interviews, and our nation’s commitment to a government of laws.

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Short Circuit 389 | On Walden Fourth Amendment - Institute for Justice It’s Sixth Circuit week on Short Circuit with a couple Sixth Circuit lawyers who clerked on the Sixth Circuit and practice law in Michigan. (Which […]

Our Latest Podcast: On Walden Fourth Amendment

With Sean Dutton & David Porter!

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