Podcasts Archive
Beyond the Courtroom: IJ’s Legislative Work and Grassroots Activism

Learn how IJ works at state houses and city halls across America to protect people’s rights. IJ directors Meagan Forbes, Lisa Knepper, and Chad Reese […]
Listen NowCutting Edge Communications

IJ’s Vice President for Communications, Justin Wilson, explains how IJ uses the court of public opinion to win cases before judges, at legislatures, and beyond. […]
Listen NowTaking on Immunity and Accountability

A bevy of court-created legal doctrines permit rogue government officials to violate the Constitution and get away with it. The heads of IJ’s Project on […]
Listen NowPrivate Alternatives When Government Fails

Everyday people across America have creative and private solutions to persistent public problems like hunger and homelessness, including IJ client Norma Thornton, who was arrested […]
Listen NowWhere IJ is Headed – The Shape of Justice to Come

IJ President and Chief Counsel Scott Bullock discusses IJ’s plans for the future and IJ’s commitment to a principled, nonpartisan defense of justice for all.
Listen NowShort Circuit 291 | Stanford’s Supreme Court Clinic

We visit some friends of the Institute for Justice at the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School. The clinic allows law students to […]
Listen NowUnpublished Opinions 2 | Justice Holmes Love Letters

It’s the second episode of Unpublished Opinions, a Short Circuit podcast. This time we’re once again joined by Institute for Justice attorney Anya Bidwell, but […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 290 | Supreme Court Preview at UNC!

For the 7th year in a row Short Circuit travels to the University of North Carolina School of Law to preview the upcoming Supreme Court […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 289 | Property Rights FTW

We celebrate, and dig into, two victories for property rights this week—both in IJ cases! First, IJ’s Wesley Hottot discusses the Sixth Circuit’s opinion in […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 288 | Nondelegating Warrants

Two old favorites this week: The nondelegation doctrine and the phrase “come back with a warrant.” And both from the culturally varied Sixth Circuit. First, […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 287 | Where the Sidewalk Ends

The members of the Nashville City Council are apparently big fans of sidewalks to nowhere. In order for property owners to get a permit they […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 286 | Totally Noncontroversial Issues

We wade into a hotly contested subject this week: standing law under Article III of the U.S. Constitution. The cases by which we address that […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 285 | Searching for Something

A whole lot of searching going on this week. First, Scott Regan of IJ reports on a Ninth Circuit opinion involving, among other things, an […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 284 | Betting the Election

Ari Bargil of IJ visits the Short Circuit virtual studio to take a bet. Or, rather, to tell us why some of us can keep […]
Listen NowUnpublished Opinions 1 | Swing More Freely

Welcome to Short Circuit’s new podcast! In this free ranging side of the Center for Justice Engagement we welcome two Institute for Justice attorneys, Anya […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 283 | Pennies at a Time

If someone sends you an unsolicited text message are you “injured”? In a constitutional sense, that is. Bob Belden swoops back to the podcast to […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 282 | Sexy Cops and Decades of Deference

We swing from one legal extreme to another this week. From the First Amendment protecting street entertainers in Vegas on the one hand to deference […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 281 | Bosom Buddies

We talk with a couple remarkable women who achieved something pretty remarkable for some other remarkable women in Georgia: Had the state supreme court strike […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 280 | Something’s Rotten in the State of Bivens

Scott Michelman of the ACLU-DC joins us to discuss the ins-and-outs of a recent fascinating (yet disappointing) ruling of the D.C. Circuit. Remember when President […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 279 | Cops on the Beat

It’s hard to sue the police. But it’s even harder to sue a judge. Rob Johnson returns to tell us about an Eighth Circuit case […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 278 | I’ll Take the Elevator

Who knew that is was so easy to defeat qualified immunity when you sue an elevator inspector? Wesley Hottot of IJ joins us this week […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 277 | More to Come

Short Circuit is delighted to welcome one of the “Founding Fathers” of #AppellateTwitter to our virtual studio, Sean Marotta. Sean tells the story of how […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 276 | The Concentration of Powers

We all know about the separation of powers. But this week IJ attorney Jaba Tsitsuashvili introduces us to something else: the concentration of powers. It’s […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 275 | All Constitutional Law is Procedural Nonsense

IJ attorney Paul Avelar seizes the means of production (and the Short Circuit microphone) and hosts this week’s episode, live from IJ’s annual Law Student […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 274 | 100 Years of Meyer v. Nebraska

June 4, 2023 marks exactly 100 years since the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Meyer v. Nebraska, where the Court ruled that it […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 273 | Suing to Apportion Seats

Today we’re digging into the Fourteenth Amendment. No, not the part we usually talk about, Section 1, with its privileges or immunities, equal protection, and […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 272 | Elizabeth Warren and Jackets

If a sitting senator threatened you with censorship, would it matter what jacket she’s wearing? Although not an issue we discuss this week, it’s related […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 271 | The Cars Greatest Hits

Cars and free speech, what could be a more American combination? This week we’re playing a double-sided session that you can enjoy while honking your […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 270 | Baby Ninth Amendments

IJ attorney Josh Windham seizes the microphone and turns it around on your regular host, Anthony Sanders. Josh interviews Anthony about his new book, which […]
Listen NowShort Circuit 269 | The British Constitution

It’s Special Short Circuit time. And this time that means we don’t just investigate a special legal issue, we journey to a special place (well, […]
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