It's just so easy these days to put a camera on a pole and record everything that happens in someone's front yard for eight months. So easy that we keep getting cases where that's exactly what the police do. Without a warrant. IJ attorney Josh Windham unpacks the latest, out of the First Circuit, Courier font and all. The judges don't agree, but the rest of us can that this issue is likely heading to the Supreme Court soon. Then Anthony Sanders tells a story from Indiana where its supreme court drew a line in the sand dunes about what its legislature can delegate. But it's not the "nondelegation doctrine" you've heard about.

RSVP for Short Circuit Live and Constitutional G.P.A. on June 30, 2022 in Los Angeles!, https://ij.org/event/constitutional-gpa-launch-at-ucla/

U.S. v. Moore-Bush, http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/19-1582P2-01A.pdf

Holcomb v. Bray, https://public.courts.in.gov/Decisions/api/Document/Opinion?Id=RRvDhps1kFgz0co94EC6Pod3mOXwtu9lxW0s2dBTG0ufJmLLaYvsh4WhpGXxa8iE0

The previous Short Circuit podcast on camera poles, https://shortcircuit.org/sc_podcast/183/

Blog post on Holcomb case, https://ij.org/cje-post/legislators-timing-themselves/

Josh Windham, https://ij.org/staff/joshua-windham/

Anthony Sanders, https://ij.org/staff/asanders/

Short Circuit 224 | Cameras on Poles Recording Everything

On a special Short Circuit, we sit down with Michael Bindas, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice and lead attorney in Carson v. Makin. There, the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of Michael’s clients and thousands of children whose parents now have additional options for their education. We talk to Michael about the underlying religious liberty and school choice issues, what it’s like to argue a case at the Supreme Court, and the future of school choice in the wake of this important victory. Somehow we also work bourbon and rye into the conversation.

RSVP for our event at UCLA on June 30th, https://ij.org/event/constitutional-gpa-launch-at-ucla/

Carson v. Makin (Supreme Court), https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1088_dbfi.pdf

IJ’s case page, https://ij.org/case/maine-school-choice-3/

Carson v. Makin (First Circuit), https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Maine-First-Circuit-Opinion.pdf

Michael Bindas, https://ij.org/staff/mbindas/

Anthony Sanders, https://ij.org/staff/asanders/

Short Circuit 225 | Supreme School Choice Victory

Recorded live at UCLA, we're introducing a new study from the Institute for Justice: Constitutional G.P.A., is your Government Preventing Accountability? The study grades each state on how its citizens are able--or all too often, are not able--to hold government officials accountable when their rights are violated. It's also a research tool you can use yourself. Hosted by IJ attorney Anya Bidwell we hear about three recent cases through the prism of the study. They are presented by UCLA law professor (and Chief Conspirator at the Volokh Conspiracy) Eugene Volokh, President of the National Police Accountability Project Julia Yoo, and California civil rights attorney Nicholas Yoka. 

Feel free to follow along with us by checking out the interactive study out here: https://ij.org/report/constitutional-gpa/

Novak v. City of Parma, https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/22a0090p-06.pdf

Rivera v. Monko, https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/202531p.pdf

R.A. v. Johnson, https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/211972.P.pdf

Eugene Volokh, https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/eugene-volokh

Julia Yoo, https://www.iredalelaw.com/staff/julia-yoo 

Nicholas Yoka, https://www.psbr.law/nicholas-walter-yoka.html

Anya Bidwell, https://ij.org/staff/anya-bidwell/

Short Circuit 226 | Short Circuit Live Constitutional GPA

The Supreme Court decides a few dozen cases every year; federal appellate courts decide thousands. So if you love constitutional law, the circuit courts are where it’s at. Join us as we break down some of the week’s most intriguing appellate decisions with a unique brand of insight, wit, and passion for judicial engagement and the rule of law.  http://ij.org/short-circuit