Balls & Strikes
Jay WillisThe official newsletter of Balls & Strikes, each week from Jay Willis
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A Brief History of This Bizarre Pro-Management PSA, Starring the Dallas Cowboys and Young Clarence Thomas
In the early 1980s, a handful of Dallas Cowboys players starred in what is, even in goofy athlete public service announcement-adjusted terms, one of the goofier athlete public service announcements I have ever seen. “Everybody wants to be a...
The Supreme Court Keeps Inviting Trump to Get More Ambitious
On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court closed out its 2025-26 term by handing down three opinions that, in order, (further) enhanced Republican lawmakers’ power to discriminate against trans kids, made it (even) easier for wealthy people to...
Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas Think Police Abuse of Black People Is Kind of Overblown
On a sunny weekday afternoon in September 2020, four members of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Gun Recovery Unit climbed out of their unmarked cars and approached a group of ten Black men on a sidewalk in northwest Washington, D.C. On...
Clarence Thomas’s War On Affirmative Action Was Never Just About the Law
Midway through his third and final year at Yale Law School, Clarence Thomas had yet to receive a job offer from any of the firms to which he’d applied, and he was pretty sure he knew why. In his 2007 memoir, My Grandfather’s Son, Thomas rem...
The Senate Must Not Confirm Any More Trump Judges Who Are This Bad at Parking
Last week, the Idaho State Journal reported that Judge Ryan Nelson, whom President Donald Trump appointed to the Ninth Circuit in 2018, is facing criminal charges in Idaho stemming from his participation in a time-honored, quintessentially...
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