Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.

In 2023, police in Marion, Kan.—armed with bogus warrants—raided the offices of a local newspaper, the home of the newspaper owner (a nonagenarian who died of a heart attack the following day), and the home of a city councilwoman who'd been critical of the mayor. And this week, Marion County and its sheriff agreed to a financial settlement, admitted the raids violated the First and Fourth Amendments, and apologized. The lawsuit proceeds, however, against the City of Marion and its now-former mayor and now-former police chief. Read all about it in the Marion County Record, or The New York Times, or quite a few other places.

Over at The Wall Street Journal, meanwhil

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