Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
New cert petition: Midland County, Tex. hired a prosecutor to secretly moonlight as a paid law clerk for nearly two decades, helping judges decide his and his colleagues' cases—an "utterly bonkers" due-process violation and a "DEFCON 1 legal scandal." But over the "emphatic[]" dissent of six judges, who asked the Supreme Court to step in and resolve a "deep and enduring circuit split," the Fifth Circuit ruled this year that victim and IJ client Erma Wilson can't vindicate her federal constitutional right to a conflict-free trial until she first exhausts possible state-law remedies. Click here to learn more.
New on the Short Circuit podcast: There's something rotten in the Ohio Attorney General's office but the Sixth Circuit won't do anything about it (for now).
