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26 Apr 2024, 10:25 am by Howard Bashman
United States is the last, best chance to hold the ex-president accountable for trying to steal the last election before the next one takes place; The Republican justices understand that their job is to talk about anything else”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 7:08 pm by Howard Bashman
“James Ho Accidentally Makes Powerful Case For Robust Judge-Shopping Reforms; Against all odds, the federal judge who once unironically used the phrase ‘woke Constitution’ has written something even dumber”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 6:40 pm by Howard Bashman
“The Case For Sonia Sotomayor’s Retirement Is Not Just About Sonia Sotomayor; Democrats must reconceptualize what it means to serve responsibly on the Supreme Court, where a handful of unexpected vacancies can flip the balance of power for generations”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 2:02 pm by Howard Bashman
“Republican Politicians Keep Learning That Abortion Is Popular and They Are Not; Florida Amendment 4 gives 22 million people the chance to protect abortion access over the strident objections of Republican elected officials”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
28 Mar 2024, 6:55 pm by Howard Bashman
“The Next Attack on Medication Abortion Just Has to Be a Little Less Stupid; When conservative activists control the federal bench, bad people who make worse arguments are going to win more often than they might otherwise expect”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
22 Mar 2024, 2:22 pm by Howard Bashman
“Democrats’ Abandonment of Adeel Mangi Is Cynical and Embarrassing; Republicans gambled that a few well-placed Islamophobic smears would imperil the nomination of a Muslim American lawyer to a federal judgeship; They were right”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
21 Mar 2024, 12:31 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  At this point, Trump's people have had some success throwing mud at Fulton County DA Fani Willis (with a huge and unprincipled assist from the judge, as Professor Dorf pointed out earlier this week), but there is nothing to Trump's constant, evidence-free assertions that the prosecutions are a political operation. [read post]
25 Feb 2024, 8:53 pm by Howard Bashman
“The Curious Case of the Mildly Annoyed Judge; Legal journalists often identify the party affiliation of a federal judge’s appointing president; Not everyone is thrilled about this”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 6:44 pm by Howard Bashman
“Conservative Activists Are Ready to Bury Federal Courts In Paperwork; While the Supreme Court decides whether to get rid of Chevron deference once and for all, overworked trial court judges are already preparing for the worst”: Jay Willis has this post at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
24 Jan 2024, 7:04 pm by Howard Bashman
“Supreme Court Justices Must Either Explain Themselves Or Shut Up About ‘Unfair Treatment’; People who cannot be bothered to explain their votes in high-stakes, life-or-death cases are not entitled to the benefit of the doubt”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
6 Dec 2023, 12:12 pm by Howard Bashman
“The Conservative Justices Will Believe Any Story They Want to Hear; The Supreme Court’s docket is crowded with cases featuring dubious narratives, sock-puppet petitioners, and high-profile conservative activists”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
14 Nov 2023, 5:53 pm by Howard Bashman
” And at Balls and Strikes, Jay Willis has a post titled “The Conservative Legal Movement’s Fingerprints Are All Over the SCOTUS Code of Conduct; The justices’ unenforceable ‘ethics code’ is also conspicuously tailored to all the unethical things the justices love doing so much. [read post]
5 Nov 2023, 6:30 pm by Howard Bashman
“A Brief History of Supreme Court Justices Throwing Out Ceremonial First Pitches at Baseball Games”: Jay Willis has this post at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
28 Sep 2023, 6:47 pm by Howard Bashman
“There Is No Such Thing As a ‘Quiet’ Supreme Court Term; When conservatives have this much control over the Court’s agenda, the only question for liberals is how much they will lose, and how quickly”: Jay Willis has this post at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
7 Sep 2023, 10:30 am by Howard Bashman
“Anita Earls Did What Judges Are Supposed to Do; If a sitting state supreme court justice can’t talk honestly about the legal system’s failures, no one can”: Jay Willis has this post at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
25 May 2023, 6:38 pm by Howard Bashman
“It Is Not a Journalist’s Job to Make John Roberts Look Good; Telling the whole story of a Supreme Court case requires more than reading the opinion and cranking out a summary by lunchtime”: Jay Willis has this post at Balls and Strikes. [read post]