Balls & Strikes
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Democrats Who Are Still Afraid of Supreme Court Expansion Need to Grow Up
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted on a version of the “Keep Nine” amendment, which, as the name suggests, would amend the Constitution to cap the Supreme Court at its current size of nine justices. Given that the Court’s six-...
The Trump DOJ Is Running Out of Ways to Humiliate Itself In Public
For some time now, I have been tracking the Justice Department’s alarmingly rapid transformation from one of the legal profession’s most prestigious employers into a clubhouse for semiliterate dunces whose primary qualification for the job...
Career DOJ Lawyers Cannot Believe How Unserious Their Bosses Are
The second Trump administration has put Justice Department lawyers who care about civil rights in—and here I have to apologize for the legal jargon—a real pickle. On the one hand, there are of course real violations of civil rights laws hap...
The Justice Who Wrote Plessy v. Ferguson Had Some Awful Ideas About Women Voting, Too
In 1896, the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the doctrine of “separate but equal,” which served as the legal justification for the ensuing decades of state-sanctioned discrimination and violence against Black people. In his opini...
Todd Blanche Will Promise Anything Republican Senators Ask
In February 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order establishing the White House Faith Office, which “advises” the administration on religion-adjacent policy initiatives and is led by a televangelist who has publicly compared...
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