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“Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote.”

A Washington State Supreme Court Justice Condemns Federal Indian Law as Racist and Awful

"Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote."

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 13h

The Supreme Court's conservatives are getting ready to take a chainsaw to the Voting Rights Act (again)

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 1d

[bangs gavel]

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 1d

New year, new horrific anti-voting Supreme Court case ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 4d

Hey, generally speaking, is it good or bad when presidents talk about taking away constitutional rights they don't like

“We Took the Freedom of Speech Away” Is Somehow a Direct Quote From Donald Trump

Trump's definition of "freedom of speech" does not appear to incorporate anything the Supreme Court has said on the subject.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 5d

They don't even care about lying anymore

The Conservative Justices Are Not Even Bothering to Tell This Lie Anymore

Extolling the virtues of precedent used to be mandatory for Supreme Court justices. Now that the conservatives have six votes, they suddenly view it as very optional.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 5d

Love to have a president who talks about the Constitution like this

“We Took the Freedom of Speech Away” Is Somehow a Direct Quote From Donald Trump

Trump's definition of "freedom of speech" does not appear to incorporate anything the Supreme Court has said on the subject.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 5d

The conservative justices are forgetting to tell their favorite lie

The Conservative Justices Are Not Even Bothering to Tell This Lie Anymore

Extolling the virtues of precedent used to be mandatory for Supreme Court justices. Now that the conservatives have six votes, they suddenly view it as very optional.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 5d

The Court's most enthusiastic Republican justice is out here giving free legal advice to Republican litigants

Sam Alito Is Just Asking Questions About Mail-In Voting

In Illinois, Democrats passed a law making it easier for people to cast absentee ballots. Alito was ready to give the Republican challenging the law some free advice.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 5d

The Court's position on LGBTQ rights cases is "what legal rule can we apply in order to ensure that the LGBTQ people lose"

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 6d

If you are Sam Alito, every case is a chance to uncork some demented pro-Trump conspiracy theories about mail-in voting

Sam Alito Is Just Asking Questions About Mail-In Voting

In Illinois, Democrats passed a law making it easier for people to cast absentee ballots. Alito was ready to give the Republican challenging the law some free advice.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 6d

The only "expert opinions" the conservative justices care about are their own

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 6d

Do not let the Supreme Court's diligent advocacy for Donald Trump distract you from the Supreme Court's perpetual skepticism of the rights of criminal defendants

The Supreme Court Is Getting Back to Basics (Not Caring About Criminal Defendants’ Rights)

After a summer of giving Donald Trump everything he wants, the justices opened their new term with a case that could further limit the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 7d

For the conservative justices, "scientific debate" means whatever is best for their preferred policy agenda

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 7d

The case of a person who might have to spend decades in prison is basically a chance for the justices to do some interesting thought experiments

The Supreme Court Is Getting Back to Basics (Not Caring About Criminal Defendants’ Rights)

After a summer of giving Donald Trump everything he wants, the justices opened their new term with a case that could further limit the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 7d

The simplest way to understand the Supreme Court's policy agenda is to look at how conservative activists are framing the cases that will come before the justices this fall

The Story of This Supreme Court Term Is Already On YouTube

How conservative activists are building a shared cultural understanding about who deserves the law’s protections, and who does not.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 8d

The Supreme Court opened its new term by doing what it does best: acting openly skeptical of the rights of criminal defendants

The Supreme Court Is Getting Back to Basics (Not Caring About Criminal Defendants’ Rights)

After a summer of giving Donald Trump everything he wants, the justices opened their new term with a case that could further limit the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 8d

Antonin Scalia had nothing but contempt for Anthony Kennedy, and yet Kennedy is still cranking out credulous Scalia hagiography in his new memoir

Here Is Anthony Kennedy’s Heartwarming Story About the Time Antonin Scalia Humiliated Him In Public

Even the highest-profile victims of Scalia’s rage are doing credulous hagiography about him.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 8d

Even in Supreme Court justice-adjusted terms, it is incredible how wrong Brett Kavanaugh manages to be about basic reality

Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day

Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 8d

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar, a case about whether the First Amendment protects licensed counselors' free speech right to tell their LGBTQ clients to "pray away the gay"