Short Circuit

Season 2, Ep. 5: Under Color of Law

WEEK OF March 1, 2021

Furtive offenses, cable bundling, and a Twitter pile-on.

WEEK OF February 26, 2021

Wine deliveries, secular wedding celebrants, and Italian torture.

WEEK OF February 19, 2021

Episode 163: The Law of Johnny 5 is Still Alive

WEEK OF February 19, 2021

Crooked judges, learned intermediaries, and laundering lawyers.

WEEK OF February 12, 2021

Episode 162: I Will Get Credit When I Crush You

WEEK OF February 12, 2021

Military leave, vicious campaigning, and a floral print foofaraw.

WEEK OF February 5, 2021

Episode 161: A Honkload of Stateless Cocaine

WEEK OF February 5, 2021

Hurricane preparedness, getting rid of a body, and illegal sideshows.

WEEK OF January 29, 2021

Episode 160: The Dominion of Giuliani and Citizenship Receptions

WEEK OF January 29, 2021

Season 2, Ep. 4: Outrage Legislation

WEEK OF January 28, 2021

Municipal sewage, trafficking victims, and exculpatory evidence witheld.

WEEK OF January 22, 2021

Episode 159: The Sub-Rational Basis Test

WEEK OF January 22, 2021

Safe injections, inhospitable barriers, and Derby pie.

WEEK OF January 15, 2021

Episode 158: Privileges or Immunities and Consent Decrees

WEEK OF January 14, 2021

Aggregate expenditures, maximum allotments, and Moroccan rugs.

WEEK OF January 8, 2021

Episode 157: State Constitutionalists are the Veterinarians of Law

WEEK OF January 7, 2021

Russian intelligence, Congressional injuries, and price transparency.

WEEK OF January 1, 2021

Season 2, Ep. 3: The Bubble

WEEK OF December 28, 2020

Spam emails, scandalous retweets, and name-clearing hearings.

WEEK OF December 25, 2020

Episode 156: The Navigable Waters, Recording Cops, and People in Church

WEEK OF December 23, 2020

Recording the police, union speech, and repulsive comments.

WEEK OF December 18, 2020

Season 2, Ep. 2: Death By a Thousand Cuts

WEEK OF December 14, 2020

Hard seltzer, full parmesan, and the Border Wall.

WEEK OF December 11, 2020

Episode 155: Only 160 Felonies

WEEK OF December 10, 2020

Veterinary telemedicine, a red maple, and a Mile High clubbing.

WEEK OF December 4, 2020

Episode 154: Class action coupons and a building for Buddhists

WEEK OF November 30, 2020

Stay away from Martin Van Buren.

WEEK OF November 27, 2020

Season 2, Ep. 1: They’re Going to Kill This Man

WEEK OF November 25, 2020

Trailer: Season 2

WEEK OF November 23, 2020

Federal executions, conversion therapy, and clean fuel.

WEEK OF November 20, 2020

Church in COVID, the Golden Rule, and Dr. Penis

WEEK OF November 13, 2020

Episode 153: The Wire and Dairy Cows

WEEK OF November 12, 2020

CHECK FRAUD, ‘GOLF BALLS,’ AND ADA LAW

WEEK OF November 6, 2020

Zombie laws, dreaded doctrines, and the use vs. status distinction.

WEEK OF October 30, 2020

Episode 152: Election Law 2020 Special

WEEK OF October 29, 2020

Vote hauling, signature verification, and extended deadlines.

WEEK OF October 23, 2020

Episode 151: Lifetime Leases and Butterflies on Walls

WEEK OF October 22, 2020

Butterflies at the border, bullets in the back, banknotes for the blind, and Bontemps’ bulge.

WEEK OF October 16, 2020

Tax returns, ballot deadlines, and Pocky cookies.

WEEK OF October 9, 2020

Episode 150: Vacation rentals, COVID orders, and Electoral College studies.

WEEK OF October 8, 2020

The trial penalty, access to bail hearings, and mustard gas.

WEEK OF October 2, 2020

Episode 149: Supreme Court Preview with UNC Law

WEEK OF October 2, 2020

Chokeholds, no-knock raids, and mass torts.

WEEK OF September 25, 2020

Distractionary strikes, unreliable databases, and groping ordinary folks.

WEEK OF September 18, 2020

Episode 148: Are apartments a nuisance? Private property and the rise of zoning.

WEEK OF September 17, 2020

Voter fraud, Jersey Boys, and inescapable tax debt.

WEEK OF September 11, 2020

Episode 147: Off-premises signs and an on-premise subpoena

WEEK OF September 10, 2020

Episode 146: Riotous speech and a wrongful conviction.

WEEK OF September 5, 2020

The Kentucky Derby, phone tapping, and asylum.

WEEK OF September 4, 2020

Anti-Riots, bright youth, and a sick puppy.

WEEK OF August 28, 2020

Episode 145: Dude, where’s my car? Plus, campaigning to disclose.

WEEK OF August 28, 2020

Moss piglets, Costco at Tiffany’s, and murder-for-hire.

WEEK OF August 21, 2020

Cuban ballplayers, regulating Puerto Rico, and the male-only military draft.

WEEK OF August 14, 2020

Episode 144: PACER Charges and Publicly Charged Universal Injunctions

WEEK OF August 14, 2020

Government snipers, objector blackmail, and PACER fees.

WEEK OF August 7, 2020

Episode 143: Adoption, religious freedom, and anti-discrimination. Plus a promise not to do bad things.

WEEK OF August 6, 2020

Apple permits, laser beams, and Nazis in Skokie.

WEEK OF July 31, 2020

Episode 142: Losing your house over an $8 debt and parking fines.

WEEK OF July 31, 2020

A transatlantic pie fight, a pecunious divorce, and a putrid pool of purple ink.

WEEK OF July 24, 2020

Episode 141: A pizza raid in Chicago and Fourth Amendment fireworks in the Fourth Circuit

WEEK OF July 23, 2020

Noxious odors, trained scientists, and aberrantly salacious products.

WEEK OF July 17, 2020

Episode 140: End times at the sheriff’s department and Euclidean policing.

WEEK OF July 15, 2020

Wild horses, ankle stomps, and covert tweets.

WEEK OF July 10, 2020

Excessive radon, Armageddon, and a hopeless romantic.

WEEK OF July 3, 2020

Episode 139: A Week of Heavy Lifts: Closing Down Gyms in Michigan and a High-Profile Prosecution in DC

WEEK OF June 26, 2020

FIFA, vaping, and surprise tasing.

WEEK OF June 26, 2020

A spectacular fossil, tree-shaped air fresheners, and protecting and serving the poop out of you.

WEEK OF June 19, 2020

Episode 138: A Bunch of Bad Apples.

WEEK OF June 18, 2020

Episode 137: Qualified Immunity and George Floyd

WEEK OF June 12, 2020

Horseshoeing school, tour guide licensing, and a lawsuit that will not go gentle into that good night.

WEEK OF June 12, 2020

Common sense, various poems, and rogue, mooning journalists.

WEEK OF June 5, 2020

Episode 136: Arguing at the Supreme Court

WEEK OF June 2, 2020

Bad water, bad debt, and man, the police shoot a lot of people.

WEEK OF May 29, 2020

Episode 135: Constitutional Guarantees During Emergencies

WEEK OF May 28, 2020

Unpaid college athletes, cannabidiol gummies, and jailhouse informants.

WEEK OF May 22, 2020

Botanical accuracy, puppycide, and accusations of impropriety.

WEEK OF May 15, 2020

Episode 134: Will the Supreme Court finally do something about qualified immunity?

WEEK OF May 15, 2020

Beer innuendo, fishing in the mail, and the finality trap.

WEEK OF May 8, 2020

Episode 133: Forcing kids to attend crummy schools and forcing inmates to stay in COVID-infested prisons.

WEEK OF May 7, 2020

One day too late, one good eye, and dead men tell no tales.

WEEK OF May 1, 2020

Episode 132: A prostitution sting, alcohol, and government debt collectors.

WEEK OF May 1, 2020

Spaceman, fake subpoenas, and the right to a basic minimum education.

WEEK OF April 24, 2020

Episode 131: The Real RBT and the King’s Bench (in Pennsylvania) Approves COVID-19 Restrictions.

WEEK OF April 24, 2020

Episode 130: No suing the feds for hiding Jeffrey Epstein’s nonprosecution deal, no suing the feds for killing cows in a quarantine, and no suing over government speech.

WEEK OF April 22, 2020

Hair microscopy, an economist breaks bad, and the non-prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.

WEEK OF April 17, 2020

Episode 129: Fines & fees, completed misdemeanors, and jail debit cards.

WEEK OF April 14, 2020

Hydrofluorocarbons, indefinite detention, and tasteless sarcasm.

WEEK OF April 10, 2020

Episode 128: Your City Could Go Bankrupt Because It Doesn’t Respect Property Rights

WEEK OF April 9, 2020

Poppy seed chips, the Codfather, and secret lynching records.

WEEK OF April 3, 2020

Short Circuit 127: A cert grant, a cert petition, sanctuary cities, and pilfered Spanish gold.

WEEK OF April 1, 2020

A cold prison, a suspicious suicide, and EPA advisory committees.

WEEK OF March 27, 2020

Short Circuit 126: Cert petitions, a prison shank public records request, and an arrest for having a smart mouth.

WEEK OF March 26, 2020

Jaguar habitat, CIA black sites, and deadly insurance benefits.

WEEK OF March 20, 2020

Short Circuit 125: Double jeopardy, HIV-positive airmen, and leaving supplies in the desert for migrants.

WEEK OF March 13, 2020

Flight paths, multitudinous grievances, and loitering plus.

WEEK OF March 13, 2020

Threatening a ref, double jeopardy, and slave labor.

WEEK OF March 6, 2020

Rails-to-trails, unfair competition, and nonactionable puffery.

WEEK OF February 28, 2020

Short Circuit 124: Live at UGA Law

WEEK OF February 28, 2020

Graffiti destruction, vagrant ousting, and restored voting rights.

WEEK OF February 21, 2020

Episode 9 – Excessive Fines

WEEK OF February 20, 2020

JUDICIAL ENGAGEMENT & UNIVERSAL INJUNCTIONS

WEEK OF February 18, 2020

Canine due process, feline endangerment, and civil contempt.

WEEK OF February 14, 2020

Defenestration, foreign emoluments, and wage histories.

WEEK OF February 7, 2020

Episode 123: Black Lives Matter, a qualified immunity cert petition, and Judge Easterbrook rips the DOJ.

WEEK OF February 6, 2020

Fly fishing, blackout periods, and discarded ballots.

WEEK OF January 31, 2020

The Supreme Court & Universal Injunctions

WEEK OF January 28, 2020

Episode 122: Nationwide injunctions

WEEK OF January 27, 2020

Fireburn, puppycide, and the DOJ beggars belief.

WEEK OF January 24, 2020

All Around Judicial Engagement

WEEK OF January 23, 2020

An unvaccinated firefighter, HIV-positive airmen, and a racist lawyer.

WEEK OF January 17, 2020

Special Episode: Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue

WEEK OF January 16, 2020

Confederate monuments, bird handling, and tied houses.

WEEK OF January 10, 2020

Judicial Review Isn’t a Bug, It’s a Feature

WEEK OF January 8, 2020

Facial Unconstitutionality & Universal Injunctions

WEEK OF January 8, 2020

Jail food, a rough ride, and shopping while black.

WEEK OF January 3, 2020

Episode 121: Maryland political advertising, Texas liquor protectionism, and sham review of habeas petitions.

WEEK OF December 31, 2019

A dirty cell, no no-smoking policy, and a classic case of Orwellian doublethink.

WEEK OF December 27, 2019

Census undercounts, jury nullification, and a judicial change of heart.

WEEK OF December 20, 2019

Episode 120: Seattle homelessness, privacy for political donors, and housing vouchers.

WEEK OF December 18, 2019

E-cigarettes, cyanide, and intergalactic trade monopolies.

WEEK OF December 13, 2019

Homeless sweeps, flirty fun, and a DeLorean dustup.

WEEK OF December 6, 2019

Short Circuit 119: Oyster takings, eminent domain in Colorado, and eminent domain in the Philippines.

WEEK OF December 4, 2019

When Is the Government Done Violating Your Rights?

WEEK OF December 3, 2019

A pizza shop vandal, FOIA/RICO/1A, and the Case of the Polite Bank Robber.

WEEK OF November 29, 2019

The Statewide Universal Injunction

WEEK OF November 27, 2019

Short Circuit 118: SWAT destroys an innocent person’s house, Baltimore food trucks, and making innocent owners whole in civil forfeiture cases.

WEEK OF November 26, 2019

Why Government Motive Matters

WEEK OF November 25, 2019

Short Circuit 117: Dry celling, panhandling speech, and judicial abdication most foul.

WEEK OF November 22, 2019

The Fight of the Century, Moloch worship, and a mountain of contempt sanctions.

WEEK OF November 22, 2019

Want to Earn an Honest Living? Know Your History

WEEK OF November 18, 2019

Episode 8 – Substantive Due Process

WEEK OF November 15, 2019

Football prayers, Peanut M&Ms, and illegal palmetto berry harvesting.

WEEK OF November 15, 2019

Unfit grandparents, hours at the DMV, a Cheerleading Constitution.

WEEK OF November 8, 2019

What is #50Weeks50Constitutions?

WEEK OF November 7, 2019

An Opening Salvo on Nationwide Injunctions

WEEK OF November 6, 2019

Short Circuit 116: SWAT destroys an innocent person’s house, privacy in your backyard, and productive use of abandoned property.

WEEK OF November 5, 2019

SWAT teams, filter teams, and the IRS’ asset forfeiture database.

WEEK OF November 1, 2019

Open fields, tight handcuffs, and mass shootings.

WEEK OF October 25, 2019

Golf swingers, a gangrenous finger, and the ancient concept of “frolic.”

WEEK OF October 18, 2019

Short Circuit Live: Third Circuit Edition

WEEK OF October 15, 2019

A spate of bad lawyering, a spate of congressional subpoenas, and finding love in prison.

WEEK OF October 11, 2019

Let’s Take Zoning to Court

WEEK OF October 7, 2019

Net neutrality, malingering mailmen, and procrastinating plaintiffs

WEEK OF October 4, 2019

Bad language, Batman, and bias responses.

WEEK OF September 27, 2019

Short Circuit Live: Ninth Circuit Edition

WEEK OF September 27, 2019

Waterfowl production, Officer Outlaw, and all-white juries.

WEEK OF September 20, 2019

A patronized president, a campaign of emotional torture, and a utterly unqualified forensics expert.

WEEK OF September 13, 2019

TSA screeners, background checks, and mandatory bar dues.

WEEK OF September 6, 2019

Counterfeit energy drinks, nunchucks that weren’t, and the dark web

WEEK OF August 30, 2019

Crazy pills, a toy gun, and an anomalous elector.

WEEK OF August 23, 2019

Episode 7 – Incorporation, the Lack Thereof

WEEK OF August 23, 2019

A fake university, safe and sanitary conditions, and old school equal protection.

WEEK OF August 16, 2019

Auer deference, the citizenship question, and the nondelegation doctrine.

WEEK OF August 13, 2019

Cookies and crème.

WEEK OF August 9, 2019

Bitten by a police dog, shot by a police officer, and sexually assaulted by a corrections officer.

WEEK OF August 2, 2019

Full-body banana costumes, in-state grapes, and apple pie.

WEEK OF August 2, 2019

SWAT raids, safe spaces, and a Mumbai mobster.

WEEK OF July 26, 2019

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity, habitual drunkards, and garden-variety tyranny.

WEEK OF July 19, 2019

Criticizing the police, prayers at public meetings, and Twitter as public forum.

WEEK OF July 19, 2019

Juvenile mug shots, privacy for reality show stars, and aggressing a police car.

WEEK OF July 12, 2019

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

WEEK OF July 12, 2019

Bikini baristas, cell phone radiation, and an onslaught of horribles.

WEEK OF July 5, 2019

Episode 6 – Procedural Due Process

WEEK OF July 5, 2019

Citations to nowhere, satanic cardigans, and untested rape kits.

WEEK OF June 28, 2019

Spy networks, cyberattacks, and the price we pay for civilization.

WEEK OF June 21, 2019

Prison brunch, gaslighting, and nonconsensual neonatal blood samples.

WEEK OF June 14, 2019

Cursing drivers, revoked driver’s licenses, and peeping police.

WEEK OF June 7, 2019

Gluten sensitivity, rectal probes, and troubling electrical towers.

WEEK OF June 7, 2019

Where is the treasure? Where are the assets? Where’s the loot?

WEEK OF May 31, 2019

Litigation financing, campaign financing, and salmagundi.

WEEK OF May 24, 2019

Drug traffickers’ idol, a voice from the grave, and all decent people.

WEEK OF May 17, 2019

Short Circuit Live: Seventh Circuit Edition

WEEK OF May 10, 2019

Invading agricultural land, re-plowing the CFPB’s structure, and solitary confinement.

WEEK OF May 10, 2019

The Punisher, compelled self-incrimination, and a unicorn amongst unicorns.

WEEK OF May 3, 2019

Tire chalking, evidence tampering, and robocalls.

WEEK OF April 26, 2019

Halfway originalism, frustrated immigration enforcement, and sit down or be put down.

WEEK OF April 19, 2019

Episode 5 – Tangled: The Equal Protection Clause

WEEK OF April 17, 2019

Cherry regulation, landfill corruption, and taking some air.

WEEK OF April 12, 2019

Inmate sterilization, a rodent infestation, and the return of dueling dinos.

WEEK OF April 5, 2019

It wasn’t about what was fair, it wasn’t about what was honest, it was about winning.

WEEK OF March 29, 2019

Military secrets, therapeutic insoles, and (allegedly) thieving police.

WEEK OF March 22, 2019

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

WEEK OF March 21, 2019

A police schism, a profanity-laced raid, and Mustangs over Berlin.

WEEK OF March 15, 2019

Salt storage, unspeedy trials, and cop-on-cop crime.

WEEK OF March 8, 2019

Waste and distraction, unclean hands, and defamation on Twitter.

WEEK OF March 1, 2019

Robin Hood, affordable housing cronyism, and a free nipple split.

WEEK OF February 22, 2019

Episode 4 – The Navigable Waters

WEEK OF February 20, 2019

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

WEEK OF February 18, 2019

Zestimates, Big Girl Panties, and Scabby the Rat

WEEK OF February 15, 2019

Hypnosis, fungal spores, and a Bernie independent.

WEEK OF February 8, 2019

Inoperable fuzes, sweetened sugar beverages, and sexed cow semen.

WEEK OF February 1, 2019

Episode 3 – All But Redacted: The Privileges or Immunities Clause

WEEK OF January 30, 2019

Deadlocked juries, shooting at truckers, and the Adventure of the Seas.

WEEK OF January 25, 2019

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

WEEK OF January 18, 2019

Desperate circumstances, deceptive edits, and the rule of orderliness.

WEEK OF January 18, 2019

Sovereign immunity, absolute immunity, qualified immunity, and the agora of the digital age.

WEEK OF January 11, 2019

A blind websurfer, an accidental No Fly List designation, and a threat-inducing photocopy.

WEEK OF January 4, 2019

Flight risks, using police databases for personal reasons, and a sentencing brouhaha.

WEEK OF December 30, 2018

Tonal tightropes, regulatory time bombs, and a Southern soul music rivalry.

WEEK OF December 28, 2018

Almond milk, pee tests, and the Lorax doctrine.

WEEK OF December 21, 2018

Episode 2 – The Fight for the 14th

WEEK OF December 19, 2018

A misleading film, a misleading statistic, and misleading crackers.

WEEK OF December 14, 2018

Body slams, reasonable retaliation, and Russian software.

WEEK OF December 7, 2018

Episode 1 – Before the 14th: John Rock and the Birth of Birthright Citizenship

WEEK OF December 4, 2018

Bridge malefactors, mandatory blank reports, and a leaky judge.

WEEK OF November 30, 2018

Covered cheeks, cheeky hyphens, and uncovered booking photos.

WEEK OF November 23, 2018

Civil disgorgement, mild chastisement, and a Third Amendment.

WEEK OF November 16, 2018

Gun permits, debt peonage, a hog farm gag order, and dueling dinosaur fossils.

WEEK OF November 15, 2018

Dinosaur mortal combat, the hose treatment, and the great high school impostor.

WEEK OF November 9, 2018

A barbaric sentence, unpurged voters, and a porcine gag order.

WEEK OF November 2, 2018

Weeds, word counts, and would-be blood donors.

WEEK OF October 26, 2018

Special Live Edition on the Fifth Circuit

WEEK OF October 25, 2018

Root canals, contraband dogs, and a marijuana petition.

WEEK OF October 15, 2018

Public defender shortfalls, warrantless rental inspections, and juveniles in solitary confinement.

WEEK OF October 12, 2018

Sciencing the heck of Auer deference, cruel and unusual punishment of the homeless, and Pride Festival picketing.

WEEK OF October 8, 2018

A SCOTUS haiku challenge, incorporating the excessive fines clause, and a 40-foot cross on public property. Plus, the return of the nondelegation doctrine?

WEEK OF October 1, 2018

Butter grades, toxic coal ash, and Stairway to Heaven.

WEEK OF October 1, 2018

Interviewing prisoners, unionizing charter schools, and Rand Paul’s neighbor.

WEEK OF September 24, 2018

Sacred pachyderms, boating while Latino, police misconduct insurance, & more

WEEK OF September 17, 2018

Tasing a pregnant woman, tasing a man in diabetic shock, a faithless elector feels the Bern, & more

WEEK OF September 10, 2018

Studebaker cars, Satanic standing, a “legit baller,” breaking into prison, & more

WEEK OF September 3, 2018

#CourtingHistory

“WILL A WOMAN ALTER THE COURT?” The dramatic story of Sandra Day O’Connor’s Supreme Court nomination #CourtingHistory

WEEK OF September 1, 2018

Hawks v. eagles, drop drippers, solitary confinement, & more

WEEK OF August 27, 2018

Honey Badger copyrighting, a cautionary tale about trusting a bureaucrat, Gitmo detainee tries to get free, & more in Episode 99

WEEK OF August 24, 2018

#CourtingHistory

The dramatic story of the first Senate confirmation hearings for a Supreme Court nominee #CourtingHistory

WEEK OF August 20, 2018

Feeding the homeless, drawing the Prophet Muhammed, Kim Kardashian, & more

WEEK OF August 20, 2018

Rumpelstiltskin, MacGyver, a whole bunch of attorneys behaving badly, & more

WEEK OF August 13, 2018

The rusty patched bumblebee, microstamping cartridges, officers who don’t turn on their recording equipment, & more

WEEK OF August 6, 2018

Amtrak’s self-serving regulations, the FHFA’s unconstitutional structure, Auer deference (not your deference), & more on Episode 98

WEEK OF August 3, 2018

#CourtingHistory

Invisible Aliens, Alice in Wonderland, & the Rational Basis Test #CourtingHistory

WEEK OF July 31, 2018

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Grenades, machine guns, 3D printed guns, a tranquilizer gun, machetes, duct tape, a long blonde wig, & more

WEEK OF July 30, 2018

Nuns against pipelines, don’t make eye contact with cops, self-defecation, & more

WEEK OF July 23, 2018

Are TSA screeners law enforcement officers? Iowa’s version of the 4th Amendment, why the Feds approve pipelines, & more on Episode 97

WEEK OF July 20, 2018

Caligula, Ryan Gosling, the Miracle on Ice, & more

WEEK OF July 16, 2018

Queen Anne’s Revenge, Cindy Lou Who, a pile of deference, & more

WEEK OF July 9, 2018

Inappropriate commentary from the bench, objector blackmail, John Doe summonses, & more

WEEK OF July 2, 2018

Detaining an American citizen abroad, jury trials for petty crimes, banning displays of the 1st Amendment, & more on Episode 96

WEEK OF June 29, 2018

A surfeit of text messages, a glut of voicemails, a mass strip search of choir girls, & more

WEEK OF June 25, 2018

Mo money mo problems, open-air burn pits, the case of the missing tattoos, & more

WEEK OF June 18, 2018

FTC’s cybersecurity crackdown, the best qualified immunity decision (?), & more on Episode 95

WEEK OF June 15, 2018

Dangerous tennis shoes, a magnificent distillery, bad advice from the IRS, & more

WEEK OF June 11, 2018

Trespassing on a beach, offensively Big Pimpin,’ capping the age of judges, Virginia motorist fines, & more on Episode 94

WEEK OF June 8, 2018

Dangerous pavement, defamation insurance, child labor, a virulently racist attorney, & more

WEEK OF June 4, 2018

Mind Your Business vs. In God We Trust, cell extractions, teeth extractions, & more

WEEK OF May 28, 2018

Eminent domain for private gain, searching phones at the border, illegal structuring, & more on Episode 93

WEEK OF May 25, 2018

Table grapes, invasive cavity searches, comprehensive phone searches, acute jail conditions, & more

WEEK OF May 21, 2018

Trespassing on a private beach, meet and greets, La-la-land, Ron Paul, & more

WEEK OF May 14, 2018

The lost keepsakes of Simón Bolívar, border searches, violent career offenders, & more

WEEK OF May 7, 2018

Pet food puffery, suspiciously loud laughter, the school of hard knocks, & more

WEEK OF April 30, 2018

The monkey selfie, the Pharma Bro, a murder confession from a drunk arrestee, & more on Episode 92

WEEK OF April 27, 2018

Grilling in the yard, radioactive waste in the yard, police drive onto the wrong yard, & more

WEEK OF April 23, 2018

Fishing for a lighter, standing on the porch, the right to loaf about, & more

WEEK OF April 16, 2018

Lemurs, scoundrels, a petulant pedestrian, & more

WEEK OF April 9, 2018

“Scary” bikers, an anticipatory warrant, a ban on Matisse, & more

WEEK OF April 2, 2018

West Nile encephalitis, nunchuks, a detainee’s blackened foot, & more

WEEK OF March 26, 2018

Hacky sacks aka “footbags,” policing for profit a Christmas Spectacular, & more

WEEK OF March 19, 2018

Iced coffee, sanctuary cities, the fiduciary rule, & more

WEEK OF March 12, 2018

Fighter jets, horse soring, climate stewardship, & more

WEEK OF March 5, 2018

Decency on the internet, scraping content, throttling data, & more

WEEK OF February 19, 2018

Handcuffing a 10-year-old, wealth-based pretrial detention, violent retribution for political participation, & more

WEEK OF February 12, 2018

A post-SWAT-raid code inspection, an eggregrious price fixing scheme, a tear gas accident, & more

WEEK OF February 5, 2018

“Sugar-based” prison diet, hot cells, effluent injections, illegal downloading, & more

WEEK OF January 29, 2018

$5 in cologne, $1 million in wine, $50 owed a prison inmate, & more

WEEK OF January 22, 2018

Inappropriate dolphin sex, killing economic liberty, killing killer owls, & more

WEEK OF January 8, 2018

What Is The Short Circuit Newsletter?

WEEK OF January 1, 2018

What is the Short Circuit Podcast?

WEEK OF January 1, 2018

What is Bound By Oath?

WEEK OF January 1, 2018

What is #CourtingHistory?

WEEK OF January 1, 2018