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You like law? We've got law. Check out our concise & fun-to-read summaries of circuit court opinions, listen to our (sometimes irreverent) podcast, & more. @IJ
Joined December 2017
Our Latest Newsletter: Pill-pushing predictions, off-campus speech, and a crude insurrection. https://t.co/xoFLPfsxvh
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At SCOTUSblog, IJ’s John Wrench tells a tale of white coats and black robes: How a 1927 eugenics-era decision warns against swapping judicial scrutiny for […]
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Our Latest Podcast: Is Sharing Your Password a Federal Crime? With Sam Gedge & Michael Soyfer! https://t.co/n9nZhsFrYw
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It's the latest episode of our roundtable podcast, Unpublished Opinions. With @JohnGaelen @IJSanders & Anya Bidwell! https://t.co/u7Rf1iGDRL
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With the new Supreme Court term underway, John Wrench welcomes Anya Bidwell and Anthony Sanders for a SCOTUS-themed romp—including which justice is the ideal dinner […]
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Our Latest Newsletter: Solar panels, campus protests, and not much due process. https://t.co/SMgcJ9mShr
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Hey, neat: Both The New York Times and The Washington Post featured stories about IJ client George Retes—a U.S. citizen and Iraq combat veteran beaten […]
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Our Latest Podcast: Weekend at Humphrey's. With @ToddZywicki @CaseyNormando & @Bob_Belden_ ! https://t.co/DH9YRjprKa
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It’s Short Circuit Live from Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University with a D.C. Circuit special! We review opinions from a court that […]
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Our Latest Newsletter: Rebellion, bullet control, and vulgarity cloaked in euphemism. https://t.co/TM23pnC589
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At IJ’s Center for Judicial Engagement, we’ve long argued that having judges who can say “no” to the executive branch are a crucial, necessary condition […]
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The last episode of Bound By Oath, Season 3 is out! How the federal government and the courts have prevented Native Americans from exercising their property rights, and how they used property rights long before Europeans came to their land. https://t.co/TS7v9jwJMa
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In our final episode of the season, we head to Indian Country and survey several strands of Supreme Court precedent that prevent Native Americans from […]
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Our Latest Podcast: Supreme Court Preview from UNC With @SheldonGilbert of @FedSoc, @AndyHessick of @unc_law & @JustinPearsonIJ! https://t.co/6qyzgNa0eF
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Dropping on First Monday, the Supreme Court’s first day of the October 2025 term, it’s our annual Supreme Court preview, recorded live at the University […]
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Our Latest Newsletter: Qualified privileges, unequal conspiracies, and a file in hand. https://t.co/WpUt5uzNzh
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New case! Armed, masked ICE agents in Alabama have twice arrested Florida-born U.S. citizen Leo Venegas at work, each time barging onto active construction sites […]
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Our Latest Podcast: Felony for taking a gun across country when you haven’t (yet) been convicted? With Daniel Nelson & Dylan Moore! https://t.co/dFYeBGJuc5
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What's your favorite part of the Constitution? Anything in it you would change? @JohnGaelen @DianaKSimpson & @pjaicomo provide schmooze you can use on the latest Unpublished Opinions. https://t.co/HXf3uiaCMd
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Constitution Day might have been September 17, but Diana, Patrick, and John are still celebrating. From the insight that rights come before—not from—the government, to […]
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Our Latest Podcast: Won't You Take Me To YIMBYTown? Recorded before a live audience at @YIMBYTown 2025! With @ProfSchleich @andrewdfine & @AriBFla! https://t.co/Hhi4EhMlvp
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Our Latest Newsletter: A dogfighting legend, false positives, and 69 guns. https://t.co/AKPuHVsTCu
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New on the Short Circuit podcast: An IJ victory for free speech over licensing. The Marshall family has owned property and passed it down in […]
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Our Latest Podcast: Censoring journalists when drivers pull stunts and fire guns at intersections? With @PaulMSherman & @JosephRGay! https://t.co/aNsqtcaHhZ
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Our Latest Newsletter: Big game hunts, Victorian London, and those trendy Trader Joe’s bags. https://t.co/jF9k1yuN8l
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Where’s the (cultivated) beef? Not in Texas. Starting September 1, it is illegal to sell cultivated meat—meat grown directly from animal cells—in the Lone Star […]
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Our Latest Podcast: As Maine Goes So Goes the Constitution. With Carol Garvan of @ACLUMaine & Daniel Woislaw! https://t.co/5S3YL9CGpo
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Our Latest Newsletter: Predatory incursion, financial fraud, and taking your gun to a fandango. https://t.co/xfFfoI1p5r
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New cert petition! According to the Alaska Supreme Court, it’s a-okay to forfeit bush pilot Ken Jouppi’s $95,000 airplane over a passenger’s six-pack of Budweiser. […]
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Our Latest Podcast: Can the NFL’s Commissioner be the judge in a lawsuit against the league? https://t.co/H424wH2HUU
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Our Latest Podcast: 7th Circuit Judicial Conference. With @skonsky @JohnGaelen & Chris Keleher! https://t.co/cBUJ3Sf7XW
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Short Circuit traveled to Chicago for a live recording on the eve of the Seventh Circuit’s biannual Judicial Conference. In front of a crowd of […]
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