Jay Willis

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I write about judges, laws, democracy, and the three raccoons who live in the tree behind my house. EIC at ballsandstrikes.org, occasional blogs elsewhere

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man you have to provide “support” for stuff like this, you can’t just say that, what are we doing here www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

Hey happy Fourth, sorry the future of the country is controlled by six revanchist gremlins who get mad if you even suggest that maybe they’re sometimes motivated by politics ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

The MAGA Supreme Court Is All the Way Hereballsandstrikes.org John Roberts's opinion in the Trump immunity case should be the end of the fantasy of Roberts as the Court's committed institutionalist.

So is it happening or what

DEVELOPING STORY:

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i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion | Your Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card Is Ready, Sirwww.nytimes.com The Nixonian theory of presidential power is now enshrined as constitutional law.

BIDEN: Today’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity imposes no meaningful limits on a president’s exercise of power….why is why [grinning widely, opening nuclear football]

Inviting you to ponder the craziest takeaway from Roberts’s opinion in the Trump immunity case, which is that if Trump had ordered the military, instead of the mob of his supporters, to march to the Capitol and murder Mike Pence, he’d be legally bulletproof ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

The MAGA Supreme Court Is All the Way Hereballsandstrikes.org John Roberts's opinion in the Trump immunity case should be the end of the fantasy of Roberts as the Court's committed institutionalist.

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Can we maybe get this bullshit updated?

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reflecting on the immunity decision a bit, what the Court seems to be saying is that every element of the executive branch is at the President’s disposal, no matter what he wants to use it for. his motives don’t matter. the office is a weapon to be wielded however he sees fit.

The only difference between John Roberts and Sam Alito is that one of them openly supported the January 6 insurrection, and the other one was quietly hoping for its success ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

The MAGA Supreme Court Is All the Way Hereballsandstrikes.org John Roberts's opinion in the Trump immunity case should be the end of the fantasy of Roberts as the Court's committed institutionalist.

Roberts's opinion deals mostly in abstractions, since he really, really doesn't want to talk about January 6. But just based on this, it's hard for me to see how a president could be prosecuted for ordering SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

I know Joe Biden has bigger fish to fry right now, but I am thinking once again about his choice to form a Supreme Court reform commission that included no proponents of Supreme Court expansion, which (surprise!) quickly concluded that Supreme Court expansion was off the table

sorry but “keep electing democrat presidents and senate majorities indefinitely until enough of scotus dies” never was and certainly is not now good enough. it’s just now. party leadership needs to wake the fuck up

Man this is so much worse than I expected. Obviously I am referring to the possibility of a Klay Thompson sign-and-trade to the Lakers.

One pretty clear dynamic on display this week is whose legal interests the Supreme Court cares about (corrupt politicians, hedge fund fraudsters, literal January 6 rioters) and whose it doesn’t (poor people) ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/grant...

Neil Gorsuch’s Judicial Humility Is Sanctimonious Horseshitballsandstrikes.org The Supreme Court's opinion in Grants Pass v Johnson reveals a lot about whose interests the conservatives care about—and whose they don't.

SOME NEWS: Neil Gorsuch is no longer allowed to write all the Supreme Court opinions about “the Western U.S.” or whatever. You’re not one of us, you’re not welcome here, go back to Georgetown Prep you fucking dork ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/grant...

It finally happened: I cracked a beer instead of a La Croix. Fuck it, who cares

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the roberts two-step described in the pages of the supreme court reporter! incredible and an excellent use of a dissent

There is a *very* sharp paragraph in Justice Kagan's dissent in Loper Bright on the dance this conservative majority has performed repeatedly to weaken liberal precedents en route to overturning them altogether -- on worker's rights, on the Establishment Clause, and on voting rights.

I don’t have a single good thing to say about Joe Biden’s debate performance, I am just saying it sucks that the format of the presidential debate means that whichever candidate is willing to tell the most unhinged lies is probably going to look better www.fastcompany.com/91148742/eve...

Everyone lost in the first Biden-Trump presidential debate - Fast Companywww.fastcompany.com Drained of all substance, the debate was a disaster for Biden, an embarrassment for CNN, and par for the course for a truth-challenged Trump.

If Biden had pulled it together long enough to uncork just one "what the fuck is this stupid motherfucker talking about" he would have won the debate by 40 points

A lot of what the Supreme Court does makes sense if you remember that the conservative supermajority would very much like it if Donald Trump were elected president again ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

EMTALA Cases: The Conservative Justices Want Trump to Be President Againballsandstrikes.org Why would the Supreme Court punt on a major abortion rights case? Because they have calendars, too.

Here's the Jay Willis Promise, if you're a reporter and you ask me for a quote about the Supreme Court, I'm at least gonna give you something fun to work with www.salon.com/2024/06/26/t...

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relatedly, i am going to lose my mind at how 90 percent of trump coverage treats him as if he wasn't president for four years

nothing annoys me more than the notion of an "expectations game." there is no rule that says journalists must evaluate political events on the basis of expectations set by party apparatchiks. edition.cnn.com/2024/06/26/p...

Sorry for the legal jargon, but: this fucking freak lol ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/murth...

There Is No Dumb Culture War That Sam Alito Won’t Fightballsandstrikes.org When he wins, Sam Alito’s opinions become federal law. When he loses, they are the most deranged blog posts you’ve ever read.

Incredible to assert something like this for which there is no evidence, and for which in fact there is strong evidence that you’re wrong, and you include said evidence *in the same fucking sentence*

An associate editor at Wash Post wrote this today: "At the same time — and, yes, I know how cavalierly they tossed aside precedent in Dobbs — I doubt that even this court is about to upend the national legal landscape again and eliminate the right to marriage equality" Sotomayor knows better

Weird question but I promise I'm going somewhere with it: Does this image mean anything to you

🚨🚨 folks we’ve got a dog using pillows like a person cc @fleerultra.bsky.social

Notably high proportion of times I see a driver halfway in the lane next to them, or taking up three parking spots, or pulling an illegal U-turn across double yellow lines, or turning left into traffic without looking, and what do you know, they’re driving a Tesla.

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"The concept of a wealth tax is thus still alive—but only because the conservatives decided to pick a different day to finish it off," writes @jaywillis.bsky.social. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/moore...

The Conservative Justices Picked a Different Day to Kill a Wealth Taxballsandstrikes.org Moore v. United States didn’t give conservatives everything they wanted. But it gave them good reason to be optimistic about the future.

Hit brew on the coffee machine this morning and 3 minutes later the whole neighborhood lost power and it’s not supposed to come back until this afternoon, and I feel like I just won a million dollars

This is strictly a hypothetical: if I’m not a Comcast customer, and I cut a Comcast line off my house, do the Comcast cops come or do I just get to carry on living my life