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ballsandstrikes.orgTrump’s DOJ Is On A Denaturalization Crusade. Ilhan Omar Is Just One Of Its TargetsThe administration continues its quest to make itself the sole arbiter of what it means to be American.

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"What’s 'wrong' for Trump is the idea that a Black and Muslim woman he deems inferior could come to the United States and be granted rights as his equal."

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Originalists Would Have Let Trump Livestream a Firing Squad ExecutionThe White House believed it could livestream a firing squad execution as entertainment thanks to the Supreme Court.

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The fact that Trump decided NOT to livestream an execution does not mean that the Supreme Court would have done anything to stop him

ballsandstrikes.substack.comDonald Trump Wants You to Be Afraid to VoteRepublicans are embracing a time-honored method of voter suppression: making people they deem undesirable understand that participating in democracy carries at least some personal risk.

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Look at these pathetic losers

ballsandstrikes.orgThere Is No Right-Wing Culture War These Justices Won’t FightWhenever a legal argument goes too far for the other conservatives, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are right there to encourage activists to try again soon.

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If Alito and Thomas were literally getting paid by Trump to vote how he wants in Supreme Court cases, what would they be doing differently

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Supreme Court Just Took a Worrying Case About School Admission PoliciesThe conservative legal movement continues to fight the presence of Black and Hispanic children in public schools.

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The conservative justices are once again aiming to make schools whiter

ballsandstrikes.orgJustice Alito Is Hiding the History of the Right-Wing Obsession With “History”In his new book, Alito says that Brown v. Board was consistent with an originalist view of the Constitution. This would be news to the people who created originalism.

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We are running out of ways to convey to you that "originalism" is intellectually bankrupt horseshit

ballsandstrikes.orgTrump’s DOJ Is On A Denaturalization Crusade. Ilhan Omar Is Just One Of Its TargetsThe administration continues its quest to make itself the sole arbiter of what it means to be American.

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Attempts to denaturalize citizens were relatively rare. Then Trump got elected

ballsandstrikes.substack.comSamuel Alito Has Strong Feelings About Statues Honoring Long-Dead Genocide PerpetratorsAll it takes for Alito to care about the denigration of the immigrant experience is the removal of an old Christopher Columbus statue from a city park.

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The only "heritage not hate" guy in the greater Philly area

ballsandstrikes.orgJames Ho Ponders Auditions, Ambitions, and the Crushing Meaninglessness of Human ExistenceHo can feel his shot at the Supreme Court slipping away. So he blogged about it.

Spare a thought for James Ho (it doesn't have to be a good one, to be clear)

ballsandstrikes.substack.comDonald Trump Wants You to Be Afraid to VoteRepublicans are embracing a time-honored method of voter suppression: making people they deem undesirable understand that participating in democracy carries at least some personal risk.

Look at this zero-charisma dweeb

ballsandstrikes.orgTrump’s DOJ Is On A Denaturalization Crusade. Ilhan Omar Is Just One Of Its TargetsThe administration continues its quest to make itself the sole arbiter of what it means to be American.

Trump believes he should be the only one who gets to decide who is an American

ballsandstrikes.orgThere Is No Right-Wing Culture War These Justices Won’t FightWhenever a legal argument goes too far for the other conservatives, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are right there to encourage activists to try again soon.

Whenever a legal argument goes too far for the other conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are right there to encourage activists to try again soon.

ballsandstrikes.substack.comDonald Trump Wants You to Be Afraid to VoteRepublicans are embracing a time-honored method of voter suppression: making people they deem undesirable understand that participating in democracy carries at least some personal risk.

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Trump's closing message to voters: We are gonna come to your house and arrest you if you try to vote

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Supreme Court Just Took a Worrying Case About School Admission PoliciesThe conservative legal movement continues to fight the presence of Black and Hispanic children in public schools.

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The conservative legal movement was never going to stop with affirmative action

ballsandstrikes.orgThere Is No Right-Wing Culture War These Justices Won’t FightWhenever a legal argument goes too far for the other conservatives, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are right there to encourage activists to try again soon.

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If Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito were working as lawyers for the Trump administration, what would they be doing differently

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Originalists Would Have Let Trump Livestream a Firing Squad ExecutionThe White House believed it could livestream a firing squad execution as entertainment thanks to the Supreme Court.

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You can blame the White House's interest in livestreaming an execution on a Supreme Court that has made clear that when it comes to capital punishment, the government can do just about anything it wants

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Originalists Would Have Let Trump Livestream a Firing Squad ExecutionThe White House believed it could livestream a firing squad execution as entertainment thanks to the Supreme Court.

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The Supreme Court has spent decades making clear that when it comes to capital punishment, the government can do what it wants

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Supreme Court Just Took a Worrying Case About School Admission PoliciesThe conservative legal movement continues to fight the presence of Black and Hispanic children in public schools.

Nothing upsets conservative activist lawyers quite like the presence of Black children in schools

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Originalists Would Have Let Trump Livestream a Firing Squad ExecutionThe White House believed it could livestream a firing squad execution as entertainment thanks to the Supreme Court.

The White House's plan to livestream the Ford Hood shooter's execution was barbaric. The Supreme Court totally would have let them do it

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Supreme Court Just Took a Worrying Case About School Admission PoliciesThe conservative legal movement continues to fight the presence of Black and Hispanic children in public schools.

The conservative legal movement is laser-focused on the most urgent problem in American society today: too many Black and Hispanic children in magnet middle schools in the D.C. suburbs

ballsandstrikes.orgJustice Alito Is Hiding the History of the Right-Wing Obsession With “History”In his new book, Alito says that Brown v. Board was consistent with an originalist view of the Constitution. This would be news to the people who created originalism.

Conservative judges can't stop (sorry) whitewashing the history of originalism

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Supreme Court Just Took a Worrying Case About School Admission PoliciesThe conservative legal movement continues to fight the presence of Black and Hispanic children in public schools.

We regret to inform you that the conservative justices are once again looking for ways to keep Black kids out of public schools

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Supreme Court’s Right Flank Wants to Give You Fewer Privacy Rights Than a Famous JudgeFunny how fast the conservatives justices will abandon textualism when corporations ask nicely.

We regret to inform you that Clarence Thomas is doing liviing constitutionalism again

ballsandstrikes.orgJames Ho Ponders Auditions, Ambitions, and the Crushing Meaninglessness of Human ExistenceHo can feel his shot at the Supreme Court slipping away. So he blogged about it.

Couldn't happen to a worse guy, honestly

ballsandstrikes.orgJustice Alito Is Hiding the History of the Right-Wing Obsession With “History”In his new book, Alito says that Brown v. Board was consistent with an originalist view of the Constitution. This would be news to the people who created originalism.

Alito's contention that Brown v. Board was an originalist decision would be news to the guys who created originalism specifically because they were angry about Brown v. Board

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Supreme Court’s Right Flank Wants to Give You Fewer Privacy Rights Than a Famous JudgeFunny how fast the conservatives justices will abandon textualism when corporations ask nicely.

The conservative justices believe very strongly in the rightness of textualism, unless textualism would cost corporations money, in which case they can be flexible with it

ballsandstrikes.orgJames Ho Ponders Auditions, Ambitions, and the Crushing Meaninglessness of Human ExistenceHo can feel his shot at the Supreme Court slipping away. So he blogged about it.

Would someone who loves and cares about James Ho please let him know it's gonna be OK

ballsandstrikes.orgJustice Alito Is Hiding the History of the Right-Wing Obsession With “History”In his new book, Alito says that Brown v. Board was consistent with an originalist view of the Constitution. This would be news to the people who created originalism.

Sam Alito is whitewashing the racist history of originalism again

ballsandstrikes.orgJames Ho Ponders Auditions, Ambitions, and the Crushing Meaninglessness of ExistenceHo can feel his shot at the Supreme Court slipping away. So he blogged about it.

Six years sucking up to Trump at every opportunity, all for nothing

ballsandstrikes.orgJames Ho Ponders Auditions, Ambitions, and the Crushing Meaninglessness of ExistenceHo can feel his shot at the Supreme Court slipping away. So he blogged about it.

James Ho appears to be Going Through It right now

ballsandstrikes.orgNeil Seems Gorsuch Distressed That No One Wants To Overhaul Criminal Sentencing With HimThe conservative justices finally seem to have settled on a form of agency deference they will tolerate.

Maybe the Supreme Court's war on agency deference DOES have some limits

ballsandstrikes.substack.comThis Supreme Court Keeps Making Supreme Court Expansion More PopularVoters do not like the Supreme Court, and they want representatives who are going to do something meaningful about it.

Funny how people don't like reactionary institutions that take rights away!!

ballsandstrikes.orgLying To Pregnant Patients Is A Constitutional Right, Argue Anti-Abortion ActivistsThe conservative legal movement’s newest weapon in its war on reproductive autonomy: the First Amendment.

Anti-abortion activists are taking a big hint from the Supreme Court's expansive First Amendment jurisprudence

ballsandstrikes.orgNeil Seems Gorsuch Distressed That No One Wants To Overhaul Criminal Sentencing With HimThe conservative justices finally seem to have settled on a form of agency deference they will tolerate.

The typo has been brought to our attention. We are standing by it.

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Finally, a form of agency deference that (most of) the conservative justices are willing to tolerate

ballsandstrikes.orgNeil Seems Gorsuch Distressed That No One Wants To Overhaul Criminal Sentencing With HimThe conservative justices finally seem to have settled on a form of agency deference they will tolerate.

Finally, a form of agency deference that (most of) the conservative justices are willing to tolerate

ballsandstrikes.substack.comThis Supreme Court Keeps Making Supreme Court Expansion More PopularVoters do not like the Supreme Court, and they want representatives who are going to do something meaningful about it.

Democrats don't need to tiptoe around meaningful Supreme Court reform anymore

ballsandstrikes.orgLying To Pregnant Patients Is A Constitutional Right, Argue Anti-Abortion ActivistsThe conservative legal movement’s newest weapon in its war on reproductive autonomy: the First Amendment.

The conservative legal movement’s newest weapon in its war on reproductive autonomy: the First Amendment.

ballsandstrikes.orgSam Alito Wants You to Forget How the Conservative Legal Movement Always WorksActivists are chipping away at the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell because Alito told them exactly how to do it.

Please do not listen to this man's bullshit

ballsandstrikes.orgThis 30-Year-Old Antonin Scalia Dissent Could Be Disastrous For the Endangered Species ActThe Trump administration is trying to revive a Scalia opinion that would make it harder to enforce the Endangered Species Act.

Another rejected Scalia argument is coming back under Trump

ballsandstrikes.orgCongress Should Strip the Supreme Court of Its Power to Greenlight Blocked ExecutionsIf the Court will not treat cases like Christa Pike’s with the care they deserve, the American people should ensure that it can no longer stop other courts from doing so.

Congress can stop the Supreme Court from doing what it did to Christa Pike

ballsandstrikes.orgThis 30-Year-Old Antonin Scalia Dissent Could Be Disastrous For the Endangered Species ActThe Trump administration is trying to revive a Scalia opinion that would make it harder to enforce the Endangered Species Act.

"Scalia's reasoning fits squarely with the conservative logic that wildlife is only valuable to the extent that it is economically beneficial, and that industry should not be punished for harming wildlife just because that wildlife is in the way of profit."

ballsandstrikes.orgSam Alito Wants You to Forget How the Conservative Legal Movement Always WorksActivists are chipping away at the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell because Alito told them exactly how to do it.

Please do not listen when the author of the opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade tells you that a landmark Supreme Court precedent is safe

ballsandstrikes.orgThis 30-Year-Old Antonin Scalia Dissent Could Be Disastrous For the Endangered Species ActThe Trump administration is trying to revive a Scalia opinion that would make it harder to enforce the Endangered Species Act.

Stop us if you've heard this before: A Scalia theory the Supreme Court rejected is making a comeback with the Trump White House

ballsandstrikes.orgSam Alito Wants You to Forget How the Conservative Legal Movement Always WorksActivists are chipping away at the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell because Alito told them exactly how to do it.

Alito doesn't need to cast a vote to overturn Obergefell. He's already shown conservative activists how to keep chipping away at it