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! In 1960, the Supreme Court as good as erased the oath-or-affirmation requirement from the Fourth Amendment, thereafter permitting warrants to issue based on hearsay—instead of firsthand testimony from an actual witness. Now we're asking the Court to stop flouting text, original meaning, and a deep well of pre-1960 precedent and to take up the case of Michael Mendenhall, who was arrested and had his Denver office searched based on thirdhand hearsay from an obviously unreliable source. Click here to learn more.
New on the Short Circuit podcast: Live from Penn Law we continue our #12Months12Circuits series with Circuit Numero Tres. Reverse discrimination, prophylactics, and semi-sanctionable hallucinations.
