Short Circuit

Innovative orthodontics, cumulative explosions, and voting by proxy.

WEEK OF July 23, 2021

Cat grabbers, too-tight handcuffs, and the non-corrupt arm of the law.

WEEK OF July 16, 2021

Illegally-parked cars, electric-shock treatment, and highly-regulated massages.

WEEK OF July 9, 2021

The Pledge of Allegiance, mandatory bar dues, and folk the police.

WEEK OF July 2, 2021

Keeping an eye on Baltimore, taking a bite out of parking crime, and tasing a special-needs student.

WEEK OF June 25, 2021

Season 2, Ep. 7: The Shooting of Bobby Moore — Part 2

WEEK OF June 21, 2021

Season 2, Ep. 7: The Shooting of Bobby Moore — Part 1

WEEK OF June 18, 2021

Episode 177: When are judges “too cool”?

WEEK OF June 11, 2021

A Social Security screw-up, prolonged detentions, and greasing the wheels of justice.

WEEK OF June 4, 2021

Strolling through Boston Common, flying over Greenland, and driving in Independence.

WEEK OF May 28, 2021

Good government, better government, and corporal punishment.

WEEK OF May 21, 2021

Abusive border patrol agents, administrative closure, and a profitable jail.

WEEK OF May 14, 2021

Drone advisories, wrong-door raids, and the Holy Spirit in the jury room.

WEEK OF May 7, 2021

Episode 172: Confronting Cook County Corruption

WEEK OF April 30, 2021

Episode 171: Should Originalists Party Like It’s 1868, not 1791?

WEEK OF April 22, 2021

Contretemps, surface-to-air missiles, and physical injuries.

WEEK OF April 16, 2021

Accessible websites, remote voting, and 325 pages of opinions on the Indian Child Welfare Act.

WEEK OF April 9, 2021

Collector’s coins, lucky stars, and a global nuisance.

WEEK OF April 2, 2021

Threats to the community, lubricated desks, and SWAT donning and doffing.

WEEK OF March 26, 2021

Foreign agents, football prayers, and a fraternity of judges.

WEEK OF March 19, 2021

Bad Samaritans with Tasers, involuntary servitude, and rights without remedies.

WEEK OF March 12, 2021

Waters of the United States, stolen gift cards, and Hester Prynne.

WEEK OF March 5, 2021

Season 2, Ep. 5: Under Color of Law

WEEK OF March 1, 2021

Wine deliveries, secular wedding celebrants, and Italian torture.

WEEK OF February 19, 2021

Crooked judges, learned intermediaries, and laundering lawyers.

WEEK OF February 12, 2021

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

WEEK OF February 5, 2021

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

WEEK OF January 29, 2021

Season 2, Ep. 4: Outrage Legislation

WEEK OF January 28, 2021

Episode 159: The Sub-Rational Basis Test

WEEK OF January 22, 2021

Episode 158: Privileges or Immunities and Consent Decrees

WEEK OF January 14, 2021

Episode 157: State Constitutionalists are the Veterinarians of Law

WEEK OF January 7, 2021

Season 2, Ep. 3: The Bubble

WEEK OF December 28, 2020

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

WEEK OF December 23, 2020

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

WEEK OF December 14, 2020

Episode 155: Only 160 Felonies

WEEK OF December 10, 2020

Episode 154: Class action coupons and a building for Buddhists

WEEK OF November 30, 2020

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

WEEK OF November 25, 2020

Federal executions, conversion therapy, and clean fuel.

WEEK OF November 20, 2020

Episode 153: The Wire and Dairy Cows

WEEK OF November 12, 2020

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

WEEK OF October 30, 2020

Vote hauling, signature verification, and extended deadlines.

WEEK OF October 23, 2020

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

WEEK OF October 16, 2020

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

WEEK OF October 8, 2020

Episode 149: Supreme Court Preview with UNC Law

WEEK OF October 2, 2020

Distractionary strikes, unreliable databases, and groping ordinary folks.

WEEK OF September 18, 2020

Voter fraud, Jersey Boys, and inescapable tax debt.

WEEK OF September 11, 2020

Episode 146: Riotous speech and a wrongful conviction.

WEEK OF September 5, 2020

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

WEEK OF August 28, 2020

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

WEEK OF August 21, 2020

Episode 144: PACER Charges and Publicly Charged Universal Injunctions

WEEK OF August 14, 2020

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

WEEK OF August 6, 2020

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

WEEK OF July 31, 2020

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

WEEK OF July 23, 2020

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

WEEK OF July 15, 2020

Excessive radon, Armageddon, and a hopeless romantic.

WEEK OF July 3, 2020

FIFA, vaping, and surprise tasing.

WEEK OF June 26, 2020

Episode 138: A Bunch of Bad Apples.

WEEK OF June 18, 2020

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

WEEK OF June 12, 2020

Episode 136: Arguing at the Supreme Court

WEEK OF June 2, 2020

Episode 135: Constitutional Guarantees During Emergencies

WEEK OF May 28, 2020

Botanical accuracy, puppycide, and accusations of impropriety.

WEEK OF May 15, 2020

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

WEEK OF May 8, 2020

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

WEEK OF May 1, 2020

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

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

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

WEEK OF April 14, 2020

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

WEEK OF April 9, 2020

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

WEEK OF April 1, 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

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

WEEK OF March 13, 2020

Threatening a ref, double jeopardy, and slave labor.

WEEK OF March 6, 2020

Short Circuit 124: Live at UGA Law

WEEK OF February 28, 2020

Episode 9 – Excessive Fines

WEEK OF February 20, 2020

Canine due process, feline endangerment, and civil contempt.

WEEK OF February 14, 2020

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

WEEK OF February 6, 2020

The Supreme Court & Universal Injunctions

WEEK OF January 28, 2020

Fireburn, puppycide, and the DOJ beggars belief.

WEEK OF January 24, 2020

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

WEEK OF January 17, 2020

Confederate monuments, bird handling, and tied houses.

WEEK OF January 10, 2020

Facial Unconstitutionality & Universal Injunctions

WEEK OF January 8, 2020

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

WEEK OF December 31, 2019

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

WEEK OF December 20, 2019

E-cigarettes, cyanide, and intergalactic trade monopolies.

WEEK OF December 13, 2019

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

WEEK OF December 4, 2019

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

WEEK OF November 29, 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

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

WEEK OF November 22, 2019

Want to Earn an Honest Living? Know Your History

WEEK OF November 18, 2019

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

WEEK OF November 15, 2019

What is #50Weeks50Constitutions?

WEEK OF November 7, 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

Open fields, tight handcuffs, and mass shootings.

WEEK OF October 25, 2019

Short Circuit Live: Third Circuit Edition

WEEK OF October 15, 2019

Let’s Take Zoning to Court

WEEK OF October 7, 2019

Bad language, Batman, and bias responses.

WEEK OF September 27, 2019

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

WEEK OF September 20, 2019

TSA screeners, background checks, and mandatory bar dues.

WEEK OF September 6, 2019

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

WEEK OF August 23, 2019

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

WEEK OF August 16, 2019

Cookies and crème.

WEEK OF August 9, 2019

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

WEEK OF August 2, 2019

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

WEEK OF July 19, 2019

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

WEEK OF July 12, 2019

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

WEEK OF July 5, 2019

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

WEEK OF June 28, 2019

Prison brunch, gaslighting, and nonconsensual neonatal blood samples.

WEEK OF June 14, 2019

Gluten sensitivity, rectal probes, and troubling electrical towers.

WEEK OF June 7, 2019

Litigation financing, campaign financing, and salmagundi.

WEEK OF May 24, 2019

Short Circuit Live: Seventh Circuit Edition

WEEK OF May 10, 2019

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

WEEK OF May 3, 2019

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

WEEK OF April 19, 2019

Cherry regulation, landfill corruption, and taking some air.

WEEK OF April 12, 2019

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

WEEK OF March 29, 2019

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

WEEK OF March 21, 2019

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

WEEK OF March 8, 2019

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

WEEK OF February 22, 2019

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

WEEK OF February 18, 2019

Hypnosis, fungal spores, and a Bernie independent.

WEEK OF February 8, 2019

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

WEEK OF January 30, 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

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

WEEK OF January 11, 2019

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

WEEK OF December 30, 2018

Almond milk, pee tests, and the Lorax doctrine.

WEEK OF December 21, 2018

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

WEEK OF December 14, 2018

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

WEEK OF December 4, 2018

Covered cheeks, cheeky hyphens, and uncovered booking photos.

WEEK OF November 23, 2018

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

WEEK OF November 15, 2018

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

WEEK OF November 2, 2018

Special Live Edition on the Fifth Circuit

WEEK OF October 25, 2018

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

WEEK OF October 12, 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

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

WEEK OF September 24, 2018

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

WEEK OF September 10, 2018

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

WEEK OF September 1, 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

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

WEEK OF August 20, 2018

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

WEEK OF August 6, 2018

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

WEEK OF July 31, 2018

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

WEEK OF July 23, 2018

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

WEEK OF July 16, 2018

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

WEEK OF July 2, 2018

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

WEEK OF June 25, 2018

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

WEEK OF June 15, 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

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

WEEK OF May 28, 2018

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

WEEK OF May 21, 2018

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

WEEK OF May 7, 2018

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

WEEK OF April 27, 2018

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

WEEK OF April 16, 2018

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

WEEK OF April 2, 2018

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

WEEK OF March 19, 2018

Fighter jets, horse soring, climate stewardship, & more

WEEK OF March 5, 2018

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

WEEK OF February 12, 2018

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

WEEK OF January 29, 2018

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

WEEK OF January 8, 2018

What is the Short Circuit Podcast?

WEEK OF January 1, 2018

What is #CourtingHistory?

WEEK OF January 1, 2018