Balls & Strikes

This Supreme Court Keeps Making Supreme Court Expansion More Popular

Voters do not like the Supreme Court, and they want representatives who are going to do something meaningful about it.

Oct 9 • Jay Willis

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Here Is How You Can Subscribe to Balls & Strikes (For Real This Time)

A special announcement from me, a guy who has spent a decade in digital media and is apparently still learning how hyperlinks work.

Oct 7 • Jay Willis

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Finally, You Can Pay Money to Balls & Strikes

What better way to mark the start of a new Supreme Court term than doing your part to make legal journalism less awful?

Oct 2 • Jay Willis

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September 2026

Trump Nominee: For Ethical Reasons, I Cannot Discuss the Time I Called Biden a “Great National Nightmare”

Lots of judges are Republicans. Not all of them are this loud about it.

Sep 25 • Jay Willis

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John Roberts Is Not an “Institutionalist”

Based on recent history, if Roberts is the “only person” who can preserve the Smithsonian’s independence, the Smithsonian’s independence should be dead…

Sep 11 • Jay Willis

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Democrats Who Are Still Afraid of Supreme Court Expansion Need to Grow Up

Democrats are finally grasping that their voters do not like the Supreme Court and do not want to be represented by politicians who defend it.

Sep 3 • Jay Willis

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August 2026

The Trump DOJ Is Running Out of Ways to Humiliate Itself In Public

Another week, another argument from your federal government that would be kind of embarrassing if a high school sophomore tried to make it.

Aug 27 • Jay Willis

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Career DOJ Lawyers Cannot Believe How Unserious Their Bosses Are

A new whistleblower complaint alleges that federal civil rights enforcement under Trump is about as much of a joke as you’d expect.

Aug 21 • Jay Willis

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The Justice Who Wrote Plessy v. Ferguson Had Some Awful Ideas About Women Voting, Too

After Henry Billings Brown stepped down from the Court in 1906, he launched an exciting second career as something of a freelance bigot.

Aug 14 • Jay Willis

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Todd Blanche Will Promise Anything Republican Senators Ask

Trump’s attorney general nominee can’t afford to lose any more votes. Republican senators know it.

Aug 7 • Jay Willis

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July 2026

The Good Stories Are Always Worth It

We’re looking for new contributors to Balls & Strikes. Here’s how to pitch us.

Jul 31 • Jay Willis

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I Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump Judges

Four months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost.

Jul 24 • Jay Willis

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