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: Friends, it was unreasonable and unconstitutional for a SWAT team to raid 593 Eighth Street when it had a warrant to raid 573 Eighth Street, and indeed the SWAT commander concedes as much. (What else can you do when you were meant to look for contraband in a garage, and the house you raided doesn't have a garage?) Sadly, however, the Fifth Circuit ruled that the commander's "deficient" efforts to identify the correct house were enough to get him qualified immunity. In other words, he was reasonably unreasonable. We're asking the Supreme Court to step in. Click here to learn more.
New on the Short Circuit podcast: Our biennial election law special! Foreign contributions, voter rolls, "ballot harvesting," the right to not run for office, and "learned in the law."
