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Supreme Court Audition Watch: James Ho Is In a Dark, Desperate Place
The federal judiciary’s sweatiest blogger is back with even more thoughts about “cultural elites.”
The Alarmingly Racist History of the Supreme Court’s Canceled 1947 Christmas Party
The Court held its first-ever office Christmas party in 1946. The following year, the clerks suggested inviting Black employees. It did not go over…
 • Jay Willis
There Is Too Much Bad Legal Journalism Getting Published For Me to Cover All of It
When an editorial board unironically uses the word “woke” in a headline, you are going to encounter some very bad writing in the paragraphs that follow.
 • Jay Willis
A Thoughtful Child Could Spot the Problem With the Supreme Court’s Sloppy Pro-Gerrymandering Decision
The shadow docket order in the Texas redistricting case provides state lawmakers with step-by-step instructions for drawing discriminatory maps without…
 • Jay Willis
Antonin Scalia Was a Diversity Hire
The late justice spent his career ridiculing the notion that elite institutions had any interest in diversity. He might not have made the Supreme Court…
 • Jay Willis
A Brief History Of Awful TV Shows About the Supreme Court
The concept of “The West Wing for the Supreme Court” might be the only thing more upsetting than the actual Supreme Court.
 • Jay Willis
The Supreme Court’s Latest Shadow Docket Ruling Reeks of Vicious, Casual Transphobia
Once again, the six-justice conservative supermajority rides gallantly to the rescue of their very favorite president.
 • Jay Willis
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