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A site for progressive, bullshit-free commentary about courts, judges, and the legal system they uphold. Run by @jaywillis, brought to you by @wedemandjustice.

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Incredibly, we agree with James Ho: Matt Kacsmaryk is a scourge and in a functioning legal system would have been stripped of his authority years ago buff.ly/3Jq2Me8

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How the Supreme Court's pro-corporate power crusade locked millions of people out of courtrooms buff.ly/3JuGibO

How the Supreme Court's pro-corporate power crusade locked millions of people out of courtrooms buff.ly/3JuGibO
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We regret to inform you that James Ho, the federal judge who once unironically used the phrase 'woke Constitution,' has written something even stupider buff.ly/3Jq2Me8

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'Under the Supreme Court's Bruen test, whether a man in Montana was validly charged for breaking a federal law from the 1990s depends on the ruminations of the nation’s first Massholes.' buff.ly/3Un4gMg

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James Ho accidentally makes strong case that a functioning legal system would have stripped right-wing activist judges of their powers long ago buff.ly/3Jq2Me8

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The Supreme Court's decision in Bruen is still a waking nightmare for federal judges trying to make sense of it buff.ly/3Un4gMg

The Supreme Court's decision in Bruen is still a waking nightmare for federal judges trying to make sense of it buff.ly/3Un4gMg
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Clarence Thomas doesn't owe anyone an explanation about anything, according to Clarence Thomas buff.ly/43ZTkra

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Unexplained absences from work are somehow among Clarence Thomas's least offensive displays of contempt for the very basic concept of transparency buff.ly/43ZTkra

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The Supreme Court's Bruen decision is forcing federal judges to rely on openly racist centuries-old laws in order to uphold modern gun laws buff.ly/3Un4gMg

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A federal public defender complained about being sexually harassed at work. Her supervisor told her that her relationship with the colleague harassing her was 'like a marriage,' and that she'd have to 'meet in the middle' buff.ly/3UjfKRd

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'You 'give up a lot' to work in the federal judiciary. But you shouldn't have to give up your civil rights.' buff.ly/3UjfKRd

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The case for Sonia Sotomayor's retirement is not about her. It is about the responsibility to safeguard political power when liberals cannot afford to lose any more of it buff.ly/3vEJqyJ

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Judicial branch employees have no rights at work. The Judicial Accountability Act could change that buff.ly/3UjfKRd

Judicial branch employees have no rights at work. The Judicial Accountability Act could change that buff.ly/3UjfKRd
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In the Supreme Court's modern era, three justices chose not to control who would appoint their successor. Today's conservative supermajority exists because Republicans got lucky every single time. buff.ly/3vEJqyJ

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The case for Sonia Sotomayor's retirement is not just about Sonia Sotomayor. It's about the urgent need for Democrats to reimagine what it means to serve responsibly on the Supreme Court. buff.ly/3vEJqyJ

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'Yet again, Republican judges are trying to force an unwilling public to travel back in time.' buff.ly/3VRWPOD

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The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that priests have an absolute 'property right' not to be sued for sexually abusing children buff.ly/3Ubj1lm

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'It is okay to ask the justices entrusted with power—even, and maybe especially, the justices we like—to be good stewards of it.' buff.ly/3vEJqyJ

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Republican judges keep taking reproductive rights away from people, who, in turn, have the opportunity to tell Republican judges to go to hell buff.ly/3VRWPOD

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