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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]
26 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Robert Post,  The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2024).Robert Post             Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who devised the funds (symbolically) supporting the volume discussed in this symposium, lived most of his life in the shadow of his rock star father, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. [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]
16 Feb 2024, 7:00 am by Guest Blogger
”  In one of the best detailed discussions of modern bread and baking regulation that I have ever encountered, Post recounts Justice Butler’s aggressive exercise of judicial notice and ex cathedra reasoning in Jay Burns Baking Co. v. [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]
22 Dec 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Feds Charge Ex-Miami Congressman Rivera Anew with Breaking Income Tax Laws in Venezuela Case MSN – Jay Weaver (Miami Herald) | Published: 12/19/2023 A year after being charged with working as an unofficial agent for the Venezuelan government, former U.S. [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]
21 Nov 2023, 7:09 pm by Howard Bashman
“Clarence Thomas Just Made Another Mess for His Colleagues to Clean Up”: Jay Willis has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate. [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]
7 Nov 2023, 2:52 pm by Howard Bashman
“The Supreme Court’s Big Gun Case Was Humiliating for the Justices”: Jay Willis has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate. [read post]