Will former White House Counsel Don McGahn ever testify to the House Judiciary Committee? That partly depends on how you squint when reading the Declaratory Judgment Act. University of Texas law professor (and Twitter Laureate of federal jurisdiction) Steve Vladeck checks off the justiciability boxes and tells us it didn’t use to be so complicated. Meanwhile, cities continue to hate billboards, and the Supreme Court continues to not speak as clearly as it could, even in cases involving content-based restrictions on speech. Bob McNamara explains why you have to read a sign to see if it’s “on premises.”

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Transcript: https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Short-Circuit-147-Transcript.pdf
IJ Legal Intensive: https://ij.org/ijs-legal-intensive/
Committee on the Judiciary v. McGahn, https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/6402FB14D0F73EDD852585D5005DA953/$file/19-5331-1859039.pdf
Reagan National Advertising v. City of Austin, http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/19/19-50354-CV0.pdf
Steve Vladeck, https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
Robert McNamara, https://ij.org/staff/robert-mcnamara/
Anthony Sanders, https://ij.org/staff/asanders/