Jay Willis

The Trump DOJ citing the *preamble* to a 1993 federal law about voter registration for the proposition that Trump can demand that federal judges preemptively overturn an election result is, even in Trump DOJ-adjusted terms, one of the craziest legal arguments I've ever read

Saw the word "Malfoid," had no idea what it was, Googled, and now really wish I had not done that

This headline says Democrats are "fracturing" on trans rights because *voters* are demanding an "affordability" focus, but there are no facts or data to support that conclusion. Just quotes from centrist Dems who say *they* don't want to talk about it. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

The small handful of Democrats running anti-trans ads should be embarrassed now and will be embarrassed in time. I've been saying it and still think it — www.lawdork.com/p/dangerous-... — and people who compromise in this way will change or won't be leaders, even if they are in office.

I'm running out of ways to convey how unserious the lawyers at Trump's DOJ are. The dregs of the conservative legal movement firing up ChatGPT to cobble together harebrained arguments that would be embarrassing for a junior law firm associate. Get these losers out of my face.

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

Unscientific vibes-based political analysis: JD Vance doing an obsequious Bengals post *on X* and getting absolutely fucking fried in the replies

Today at kindergarten drop-off my kid very matter-of-factly told me, “No matter how many goodbye hugs we do, it doesn’t feel like enough,” and then she walked in the gate. So if you need me for anything today I will simply be in shambles.

If you want to listen to @jduffyrice.bsky.social and I get upset about this exact problem for 51 minutes, I am going to share some excellent news with you soon

Did not go around

You have to hold two things in your head at once here: This is embarrassing shit that will get laughed out of court, and also, the fact that the president is even trying it is fucking terrifying www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NEWS: There are new licensable images of Sam Alito on Getty Images, and boy howdy does my man look like shit these days

The Republican Party's closing message to voters is basically "there is a non-zero chance that we will send armed state agents to drag you from your home if you try to participate in democracy." Vile and pathetic.

The writer-editor relationship is so important cc @jduffyrice.bsky.social

It's very funny that the conservative legal movement lionizes Clarence Thomas as this intellectual powerhouse, when everything he's written lately indicates that he's just another elderly Republican who watches too much Newsmax at home. A Trump yes-man running out the clock.

At this point, I do not think there is anything Trump can ask for that Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas wouldn't give him. If Trump's actual lawyers were on the Supreme Court, they would not be doing anything differently

NBA opening night is cool because I spend the evening yelping stuff at the TV like "Oh no, we have Georges Niang now?" and "Kevon Looney plays for the LAKERS??" and "WHO THE FUCK IS 'WILLIAMS' AND WHY IS HE DRIBBLING THE BALL SO MUCH?????"

Bluesky I know you do not care about golf. But I am telling you that in this specific case, you SHOULD care about golf. I explain in @slate.com what the Trump administration is doing to East Potomac Golf Course in D.C. slate.com/culture/2026...

Lmaoooooooooooooo

[Republican consultant voice] Sir, we’ve found the perfect person to deliver your closing message: an old lady who lost custody of her kids because her pedophile husband was sexually abusing her daughter. No, no need to watch it first, she’s very charming. As usual, our fee is $10 million.

I am convinced that the conservative justices are hypersensitive about "reverse discrimination" cases from D.C.-area schools because it's an issue that their fellow wealthy lawyers complain loudly about at cocktail parties

Probably not a surprise if you read 'Pachinko', but Min Jin Lee's follow-up 'American Hagwon' is an absolute banger

this is like a reverse "daisy." an ad so reprehensible that it detonates the candidate's campaign. tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-...

I'd read 1,000 words explaining the PR industry's obsession with using a plus sign instead of the very common English word "and" whenever possible

Honestly, light work

I’m glad alito put in writing that originalism has nothing to do with rigorous historical research and is in fact just him talking to his imaginary friends bsky.app/profile/audr...

if you were wondering whether Alito's book is an embarrassing crock of shit, I can now officially answer your question with a resounding yes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Sam Alito is whitewashing the racist history of originalism again

In retrospect, Sam Alito is about as obvious a Problematic Statues Defender as it gets. I regret not picking up on this sooner. The most enthusiastic "heritage not hate" guy in the entire greater Philadelphia area.