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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...

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I don’t disagree or anything, I just want to say, to hell with you both

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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...

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hoodie up, that’s blogger sicko mode

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So is it happening or what

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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...

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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]

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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...

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Can we maybe get this bullshit updated?

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I don't think there's a clear answer in the opinion. Maybe no, because that isn't part of his Article II duties; maybe yes, because ensuring election integrity and managing the relationships between the federal government and states is part of his job. The opinion is squishy on this, on purpose.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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

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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.

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Literally reading it was like “oh my god he said it but unironically”

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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...

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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...

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The Originalist Case For Bringing Back Cholera

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

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Ketanji Brown Janu—my god it’s been there in front of our faces all along

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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

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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...

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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

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No you were right, CMS ate the first graf, fixed, thank you

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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...

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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

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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*

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

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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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[sips coffee heated to 10,000 degrees] there’s no way to know for sure

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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

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Thanks for all your answers friends, I have since resolved my curiosity, which, I cannot stress this enough, remains just a thought exercise

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no cutting of wires! Just taking the intact wire down off my house, hypothetically, again

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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

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Took two kids to the zoo for two hours on a holiday

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Good things happening to Boston people, an amoral result

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Ryan Nanni's avatar Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social
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Unfortunately this championship will not count for the Celtics because the Finals were Not Cool.

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Ok fine I’ll get it there’s no need to be pushy like this

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