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The Conservative Legal Movement’s Fingerprints Are All Over the SCOTUS Code of Conduct
The justices’ unenforceable “ethics code” is conspicuously tailored to all the unethical things the justices love doing so much.
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Jay Willis
A Brief History of Supreme Court Justices Throwing Out Ceremonial First Pitches at Baseball Games
Fun fact, Sam Alito looking at home plate wears the exact same expression as Sam Alito looking at your civil rights.
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Jay Willis
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October 2023
Will the Supreme Court Let Texas Use Junk Science to Kill Brent Brewer?
Brent Brewer was sentenced based on the testimony of a discredited forensic psychiatrist who’d never even met with him. The state of Texas plans to…
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Jay Willis
Study: Centuries-Old Male-Dominated Institution That Just Ended Right to Abortion Care Is Sexist In Other Ways, Too
New research shows that the justices likeliest to interrupt women lawyers are exactly who you’d think would be likeliest to interrupt women lawyers.
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Jay Willis
Federal Judges Shouldn’t Be Polite to Unserious Hacks
A fake majority opinion from Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith demonstrates how the legal profession's obsession with civility rewards the worst people in…
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Jay Willis
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