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John Roberts’s PR Strategy Just Isn’t Working Anymore
The chief justice has long been adept at getting journalists to frame him as a scrupulous nonpartisan. It's a hard sell these days!
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Jay Willis
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Senate Republicans Cannot Wait to Replace Thomas and Alito With More Right-Wing Freaks
The Court that convenes for oral argument on Monday could look very different by this time next year.
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Jay Willis

September 2024

Supreme Court Justices Should Have to Show Their Work
Some of the Court's most controversial and impactful decisions are officially unsigned. A new bill would change that going forward.
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Jay Willis
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Conservatives Mean a Very Specific Thing When They Complain About “Fairness”
The only demographic breakdowns that conservatives will accept as legitimate are those that track their priors about what the world should look like.
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Jay Willis
Ed Blum Was Never Going to Be Satisfied With Making Harvard a Little Whiter
Colleges and universities trying to find new ways to build diverse classes are going to get pulled right back into court by the same activists who…
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Jay Willis
The Most Revealing Detail of the Ginni Thomas Scandal Doesn’t Involve Ginni Thomas
A conservative activist’s assertion that justices who support ethics reform are “treasonous” raises obvious questions about to whom, exactly, he thinks…
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Jay Willis
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August 2024

Undoing Trump’s Judicial Legacy Is Going to Take (At Least) a Little Longer
Biden has made progress, but Mitch McConnell’s obstructionism gave Trump an advantage that will require more than one presidential term to erase.
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Jay Willis
Donald Trump Makes a Compelling Case Against Donald Trump's Supreme Court
"I did it, and I'm proud to have done it."
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Jay Willis
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You Will Never Guess How People Feel About the Supreme Court (They Hate It)
Democrats used to be reluctant to criticize the Court. After four years of reactionary jurisprudence, polling suggests they don't have to be so cautious…
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Jay Willis
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Can You Identify These Supreme Court Justices Using Only Alarmingly Zoomed-In Photos Of Their Teeth?
Calling all the REAL Supreme Court experts.
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Jay Willis
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July 2024

Elena Kagan Sounds Pretty Annoyed By the Supreme Court
The "no more cutesy stories about Supreme Court justices" movement earns a powerful ally.
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Jay Willis
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Biden’s Support For Supreme Court Term Limits Is a Nice First Step
For years, Democratic politicians have put off the hard work of persuading voters of the urgency of Supreme Court expansion. It shows.
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Jay Willis
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