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How Federal Agents Can Legally Take Your Money at the Airport
Law enforcement agencies routinely seize currency from travelers at airports using civil forfeiture—a legal process that allows agencies to take and keep property without ever char...
Did the Supreme Court Just Say States Have to Fund Religion?
When it handed down Espinoza v. MT Dept. of Revenue this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court added one more facet to a year that has already upended the status quo when it comes to educ...
It’s Time to Fund Students, Not Systems
With an increasing number of parents desperately seeking educational alternatives for the upcoming school year, teachers’ unions and school districts are doubling down on the statu...
Can the Government Put Cameras on Your Property Without a Warrant?
Decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court created the so-called Open Fields Doctrine. The result was an exception to 4th Amendment restrictions on the government’s ability to snoop on Am...
Court Strips Elderly Woman of Her Home and Ruins Her Life
After a tree fell on her house, IJ client Sarah Hohenberg’s journey through Memphis’ Environmental Court left her bankrupt, homeless, stripped of her possessions, and a fugitive fr...
Why Won’t the Supreme Court Hold Police Accountable?
This term the U.S. Supreme Court closely considered eight different petitions dealing with the controversial doctrine of qualified immunity. Ultimately, it denied them all. In this...
Can the Government Throw You Out of Work? (Not in Some States!)
With more Americans out of work than any time in recorded history, whether or not they will be able to earn a living is top of mind for many people. All too often, however, courts ...
Current Legal Challenges to COVID-19 Rules
We’ve all been watching the unprecedented situation with COVID-19 play out. At IJ, we have a particular interest in what’s happening in the law. This episode discusses the kinds of...
When Can the Government Lock You in Your House? Quarantines and the Constitution
As we all deal with the many changes in day to day life brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, have you ever wondered just what the government has the power to do to protect pu...
How Government Officials Can Blow Up Your House with Grenades – and Get Away With It by Claiming Immunity
Listeners of the podcast who have also listened to IJ’s Short Circuit podcast are probably familiar with the concept of “qualified immunity.” In this episode, we talk about what th...
Stories from IJ’s Front Lines
Before he was IJ’s president, Scott Bullock spent 25 years as an IJ attorney. In this episode, he recounts his years in the trenches as a litigator, and the ways his cases and clie...
Zoning, Excessive Fines and Other Hot Issues in the Law
We talk with the director of IJ’s Center for Judicial Engagement about a few of the issues the legal community is buzzing about at the moment....
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