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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

I cover judges, laws, democracy, and the 3 raccoons who live in a tree behind my house. EIC @ballsstrikes, occasional writing elsewhere. signal: jaywillis.52

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i have a new podcast out today! "The 30 Year Project" is a mini-mini-series (4 eps) I made with Vera Institute of Justice on the 1994 crime bill. Please subscribe, rate us, and share with your friends! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

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Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society exec who more or less picked Trump's Supreme Court nominees, is rebranding as an Elon Musk-style culture warrior who rants about the "woke mind virus," terrific stuff ballsandstrikes.org/legal-culture/…

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A junior untenured academic describing liberals normalizing debating w fedsoc as letting the dark money billionaire barbarians into the gate of law school: "how dare you sir, students must feel so unsafe, terrible form" Meanwhile the co-chair of that org:

A junior untenured academic describing liberals normalizing debating w fedsoc as letting the dark money billionaire barbarians into the gate of law school: "how dare you sir, students must feel so unsafe, terrible form"

Meanwhile the co-chair of that org:
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The conservative legal movement's intellectual leaders are now giving interviews ranting about the "woke mind virus" buff.ly/4dWJ4nO

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Now that Ed Blum won his war on affirmative action, he's spending the next phase of his litigation career suing basically anyone who acknowledges that racism might be real ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/fearles…

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Childrens' access to books now depends largely on where they happen to live in this country. If only there were some sort of constitutional provision that prevented this sort of thing from happening! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/b…

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Rule of thumb, if a prominent Supreme Court practitioner manages to get their defense of the Court's honor at a law school lunchtime event *written up in the Wall Street Journal*, they're really talking to between six and nine people and no one else ballsandstrikes.org/legal-culture/…

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I am not sure I can imagine a more poisonous idea for American politics than “legalized gambling on election outcomes and the dystopian DraftKings-ization of political media.” Regrettably we are like five years out from that, tops fastcompany.com/91194155/polit…

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Ghost guns are making America's gun violence crisis worse. Regrettably, it is not clear if the Supreme Court's conservatives will give a shit buff.ly/3TLQH8z