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  • 1 week ago | ballsandstrikes.org | Jay Willis

    The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees “equal protection of the laws” to everyone. But since many laws classify people on some basis, courts have developed a complex, multi-tiered system for determining when classifications are unconstitutional.

  • 1 week ago | ballsandstrikes.org | Jay Willis

    On Sunday, 11 days after the Senate Judiciary Committee held confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump’s first batch of judicial nominees, the committee published the nominees’ answers to follow-up questions posed by the committee’s members.

  • 2 weeks ago | ballsandstrikes.org | Jay Willis

    In 2008, the Supreme Court’s five conservatives rewrote the Second Amendment to say what Republican politicians wished it had said all along. In the years that followed, 7,398 more children than expected died as a result of gun violence, according to a new study. In his majority opinion in District of Columbia v.

  • 3 weeks ago | ballsandstrikes.org | Jay Willis

    The highlights of the résumé of Josh Divine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to a federal district court vacancy in Missouri, are standard-issue conservative legal movement stuff: a clerkship with Justice Clarence Thomas; a stint in the office of Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley; continuous membership in the Federalist Society since 2013, when he started as a 1L at Yale Law School.

  • 1 month ago | ballsandstrikes.org | Jay Willis

    Getting on this White House’s Supreme Court shortlist is a matter of showing that you will be loyal to the president above all else. Of the many Trump judges who are angling for a promotion to the Supreme Court, no one is campaigning harder than Fifth Circuit judge James Ho, whose primary metric for success is the number of times the Wall Street Journal editorial board cites him with approval each week.

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