Balls & Strikes
Jay WillisThe official newsletter of Balls & Strikes, each week from Jay Willis
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Trump DOJ Lawyer Correctly Describes Congress’s History of Circumcising Presidential Power
Over the past year or so, President Donald Trump has transformed the Justice Department from one of the legal profession’s most prestigious employers into a gaggle of loyalist weirdos who, in any other administration, could not get anywhere...
The Justice Department Offers America’s Least Employable Lawyers $25,000 to Humiliate Themselves In Public
For many law students, working at the Justice Department is the dream—a career goal that requires years of careful planning and comes with no guarantee of success. There are several reasons that ambitious twentysomethings consider these job...
The Republican Justices Want to Help Republican Politicians Win Elections
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court published its opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, a (surprise!) 6-3 decision that at last killed the parts of the Voting Rights Act that the conservative justices had previously put on life support. Writing...
Originalist Judges Are Spitting On the Constitution and Think You Won’t Notice
In May 2025, Republicans in Texas passed a law that requires each individual classroom in all of the state’s 9,113 public schools to display a “durable poster or framed copy” of the Ten Commandments. To comply with the law, known as S.B. 10...
The Most Offensive Thing a Supreme Court Justice Can Do Is Be Honest About the Supreme Court
Last fall, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence in a Supreme Court case about ICE’s practice of arresting people based solely on the facts that they appear to be Hispanic, and were caught speaking Spanish in a public place. In his op...
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