Balls & Strikes

@ballsstrikes

A site for progressive, bullshit-free commentary about courts, judges, and the legal system they uphold. Run by @jaywillis, brought to you by @wedemandjustice.

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 13

The Supreme Court has been chipping away at the Voting Rights Act for decades, and the Trump administation has little interest in enforcing what's left of it buff.ly/4hWinlM

ballsstrikes's tweet image. The Supreme Court has been chipping away at the Voting Rights Act for decades, and the Trump administation has little interest in enforcing what's left of it buff.ly/4hWinlM

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 9

The Trump White House insisted the FBI’s investigation of the Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations was sweeping and independent. It wasn’t buff.ly/4822eqi

ballsstrikes's tweet card. A new report details the extent to which the Trump White House exercised tight control over the Kavanaugh investigation in 2018.

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Dec 18

Death, taxes, and corporate lawyers crying about how deeply unfair the legal system is to their kajillion-dollar clients buff.ly/3BHJm40

ballsstrikes's tweet card. Corporations are trying to make it harder to admit legitimate scientific evidence in court in the hopes of saving a buck, no matter the cost to people's lives.

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 15

Trump's recess appointments scheme is a show of power over the Supreme Court, too buff.ly/3Z9KdTW

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 13

The conservative justices bet Dobbs wouldn't hurt Republicans forever. They were right buff.ly/40JjsXO

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 12

Please, no more of this buff.ly/4elDTx9

ballsstrikes's tweet card. The time for Senate Democrats to worry about the future of the Supreme Court was well before a devastating election loss that will lock them out of power for the next four years.

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 12

Well, this might be it for the Voting Rights Act buff.ly/4hWinlM

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 9

It is way too late for a "Should Sonia Sotomayor retire?" discourse buff.ly/4elDTx9

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 9

Court decides that ordering pizza on Uber Eats means you can't sue if your Uber driver puts you in the hospital buff.ly/3ZR9wuN

ballsstrikes's tweet image. Court decides that ordering pizza on Uber Eats means you can't sue if your Uber driver puts you in the hospital buff.ly/3ZR9wuN

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 9

The conservative justices are not even pretending to care about what you think buff.ly/47Vxc3k

ballsstrikes's tweet card. Most Americans disapprove of the Court's lurch to the right. But the justices who control the Court are not listening to most Americans.

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 8

A brief history of Ken Paxton's war on democracy in Texas buff.ly/3YzE1UY

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 8

This may shock you to learn but, no, Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not "agree" with Donald Trump's position on abortion buff.ly/3YrkViJ

ballsstrikes's tweet image. This may shock you to learn but, no, Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not "agree" with Donald Trump's position on abortion buff.ly/3YrkViJ

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 8

The Supreme Court's most important power is its ability to bullshit buff.ly/3Ut7MEC

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 8

The right's assault on free speech is about to get (a lot) worse buff.ly/4fpu8yX

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 7

The Roberts Court gets to take another crack at fair labor laws soon buff.ly/3CaZNG2

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 7

Here is the judicial nominatiosn landscape that Donald Trump will inherit buff.ly/3O2thIE

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 4

Bad news, the Roberts Court gets to take another crack at fair labor laws soon buff.ly/3CaZNG2

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 2

We do not mean to shock you, but no, Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not agree with Donald Trump's position on abortion buff.ly/3YrkViJ

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 2

If Trump wins, he will use the power of his office to suppress free speech rights. If Trump loses, the judges he appointed will do the same thing buff.ly/4fpu8yX

ballsstrikes's tweet card. No matter who wins the election, the legal infrastructure Trump built will give the right plenty of opportunities to roll back the First Amendment’s protections for people they don’t like.

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Balls & Strikes@ballsstrikes · Nov 1

The more-or-less official position of the conservative legal movement is that voting is bad and it should be harder for people to do it buff.ly/3Ut7MEC

ballsstrikes's tweet card. A week before the election, the justices are allowing an illegal voter roll purge in Virginia to take effect.

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