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Short Circuit 171 | Should Originalists Party Like It’s 1868, not 1791?

Posted April 22, 202100:58:46

On a special Short Circuit, professors Christopher Green and Evan Bernick join your host Anthony Sanders to examine one of the great questions of the...

Short Circuit 170 | A Hot Mess and Seven Magic Words

Posted April 15, 2021

What can a court say in 325 pages? So much that we don’t have much of a clue. Diana Simpson slices and dices the Fifth Circuit’s analysis of a challenge...

Short Circuit 169 | The Duct Tape of Federal Law

Posted April 9, 2021

If you’re not a major party candidate it can be really hard to get on the ballot. So hard it’s sometimes unconstitutional. Paul Sherman explains...

Short Circuit 168 | Suspicious Handshakes and Football Prayers

Posted April 1, 2021

Can the police stop and frisk your person based on their “training and experience?” Not if that training and experience is simply that drug dealers...

Short Circuit 167 | Section 230 and a Drones Search

Posted March 26, 202100:46:42

We get a little high-tech this week. Techdirt founder Mike Masnick joins us to explain how Section 230 actually works, and how it was somewhat unusually...