Balls & Strikes
Balls & Strikes offers unique insights and news about the courts, the judges who operate within them, and the legal system they represent. What sets Balls & Strikes apart is its understanding that interpreting laws is a political process that can lead to significant real-world effects. Historically, court rulings in the United States have contributed to severe economic disparities, weakened democratic principles, supported various forms of state-approved discrimination, and created numerous obstacles to achieving racial justice. Despite its grand ideals, the legal system has often prioritized the interests of the wealthy and powerful over the rights of ordinary individuals.
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5 days 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.
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2 weeks 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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3 weeks ago |
ballsandstrikes.org | Jay Willis
Among the more challenging aspects of following oral argument in Trump v. CASA, a case about President Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, is that the justices did not spend much time discussing Trump’s executive order purporting to end Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.
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3 weeks ago |
ballsandstrikes.org | Jay Willis
Already, President Donald Trump’s attacks on BigLaw firms have earned him a deep bench of well-credentialed lawyers whom he considers available to serve his agenda at his convenience. Now, even firms he hasn’t (yet) targeted are also cowering before him, because the mere prospect of a laughably unconstitutional executive order is enough to keep managing partners lying awake at night between very expensive sheet sets.
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4 weeks ago |
ballsandstrikes.org | Jay Willis
David Souter, whom President George H.W. Bush appointed to the Supreme Court in 1990, and who spent the remainder of his 19-year tenure making conservatives insane with rage, died at his home in New Hampshire on Thursday. He was 85 years old. Today, a Republican president would not even consider someone with Souter’s résumé for a district court judgeship, let alone a seat on the Supreme Court.
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