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Jay Willis

9 months

I’m on the less Nazi-fied version of this site too, and will be posting all future dog/raccoon/coyote/other wildlife content exclusively over there, consider yourself warned

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Jay Willis

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4 years

My dog does this every time we set the table and I cannot stress enough how much I respect her optimism

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3 years

oh no my kid figured out the baby monitor

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2 years

they want to say it so badly

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Jay Willis

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4 years

Sorry but if the spectacle of a ragtag band of savvy Home Depot shoppers armed with $50 leaf blowers choking out federal stormtroopers with their own tear gas doesn’t fill you with joy, you’re a bad patriot who hates America, sorry I don’t make the rules

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4 years

With leaf blowers, the protesters appear to be winning this battle with the feds, who have launched an immense amount of tear gas

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Jay Willis

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3 years

My dog figured out the new car has heated seats

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Jay Willis

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9 months

I feel bad for anyone who is this publicly bad at anything

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Jay Willis

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4 months

absolutely astonishing to be a relatively anonymous billionaire who is so impossibly addicted to posting that you streisand effect your way to destroying your wife's career AND publicizing her history with j*ffrey epst**n

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Jay Willis

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1 year

Obviously the Army killing Pat Tillman and covering it up afterwards is the worst thing the U.S. military did to him, but the years they’ve spent rolling out his portrait backed by some inspirational music as a recruiting tool is a surprisingly close second

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Jay Willis

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1 year

Your periodic reminder that Clarence Thomas used to smear his own sister as a shiftless, welfare-dependent layabout in speeches to his Heritage Foundation pals, and when reporters tracked her down, his story turned out to be extremely fake

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

4 years

HELLO, SOME NEWS: Minneapolis is going to disband its police department. This is not a drill.

Minneapolis City Council Members Announce Intent To Disband The Police Department, Invest In Proven...

The move follows the police killing of George Floyd and more than a week of uprisings, where hundreds of thousands of people around the world have protested against police violence, and abusive...

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

8 months

Fondly remembering my tenure as an unpaid intern in Dianne Feinstein’s office, when we were all like uhhh look I’m not a doctor but this person doesn’t seem like she’s in super great shape? To be one of 100 U.S. senators? Anyway this was 2010

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Jay Willis

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2 years

hard R incoming any day now

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

4 months

Lol congrats to the NYT, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic for getting played like a fucking fiddle by this leering dipshit, great job guys

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@jaywillis

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Josh Hawley

@HawleyMO

3 months

Thank you to @kcpolice for their quick and courageous action this afternoon at the Chiefs parade. The criminals who did this must be brought swiftly to justice

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Jay Willis

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2 years

An all-white jury convicts a Black man of killing his white wife. Three jurors oppose interracial marriage because people should “stay with their Blood Line.” His lawyers don’t object. Jury sentences him to death. No problem, says the Supreme Court.

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Jay Willis

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4 years

[whispers] Sotomayor is who liberal law students think RBG is

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

10 months

If Ginni Thomas gets indicted my soul will spontaneously leave my body and ascend to a higher plane of existence

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

3 years

My friend got a sweet new job and to celebrate he told me he was going to get *me* something really inconvenient. I assumed he was joking and didn’t follow up and then 3 days later with no further warning this appeared on my doorstep.

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

2 years

Lol so Noah Feldman of “Amy Coney Barrett Deserves to Be On the Supreme Court” op-ed fame is on a Harvard Law School panel on Dobbs right now, and students in the Zoom chat Q&A are absolutely frying him

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

5 years

Just walked in to the kitchen to this scene and suddenly feel like I’m about to hear my position is being eliminated as part of a company-wide restructuring

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

2 years

This you?

Neal Katyal

@neal_katyal

2 years

This opinion says states can criminalize abortion, with no rape or incest exception. It is exactly the hardline position I’ve been saying the Court is going to impose for the last 3 years. It will set women back in profound ways. Congress must act ASAP.

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Jay Willis

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9 months

This is so beautiful man

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

2 years

I already know that when John Fetterman Dr. Oz debate, Fetterman’s gonna lead with something like “First of all, I’d like to welcome my opponent to the great state of Pennsylvania,” but I’m still gonna laugh when it happens

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

2 years

This is one of those Supreme Court opinions that sounds like a stupid joke to anyone without a terminal case of lawyer brain. "If you get sentenced to death because your lawyer sucked, actually it's your fault, also it's illegal to present evidence that your lawyer sucked."

SCOTUSblog

@SCOTUSblog

2 years

The Supreme Court rules 6-3 against two men on Arizona's death row who say they received ineffective assistance of counsel in state court. SCOTUS says that federal courts reviewing their cases can't hold evidentiary hearings to fully assess their ineffective-counsel claims.

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Jay Willis

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1 year

[GOP debate stage] CHUCK TODD: last question, how many Nazi trinkets do you own PENCE, VISIBLY SWEATING: 5 [crowd boos lustily, not yet clear why] DESANTIS, FROWNING: 8? [tepid cheers] HALEY: [drowned out by chants of WHO ARE YOU] TRUMP: [grinch smile, crowd loses its mind]

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

26 days

I mean this sincerely, shut the fuck up

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

4 years

Hear me out: They should have a moderator at this debate

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

2 years

Call me a cynic but I simply do not find this persuasive

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

4 years

“Originalism” is incoherent, smarmy bullshit that conservative judges and politicians use to shield themselves from criticism while pretending the law compels their own reactionary policy preferences, and everyone prattling on about it today is lying and hoping you won’t notice

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Jay Willis

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1 year

Unless Senate Democrats get it together, these two years will be a generational missed opportunity. A Senate majority, a blizzard of stories about Supreme Court corruption, real momentum for reform, and Dems are just sending polite letters that the Court stuffs in the trash.

southpaw

@nycsouthpaw

1 year

Justice Thomas changed his mind on an issue that’s very important to Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo—one that’s before the Court right now.

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

2 years

Today I learned that Ace and Gary from “The Ambiguously Gay Duo” SNL sketches were voiced by Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell and I am simply reeling

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

1 year

From a homeless man who was hungry and needed care, to a guy who thought it was his right to kill subway riders he deemed too scary, to a media account that justifies murder with passive voice copspeak, this story is just a cascading series of social failures

The New York Times

@nytimes

1 year

A 30-year-old man died on the subway on Monday after he was placed in a chokehold, the police said. Witnesses said the victim had been acting in a “hostile and erratic manner” toward passengers on the train when the other man, 24, moved to restrain him.

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

3 years

If the Court allows a law that obviously violates the Roe/Casey framework to take effect, the Roe/Casey framework is overruled. Pointing out that no judge literally said so is dead-end formalism that obfuscates the law’s impact on people who aren’t constitutional law professors.

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Jay Willis

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5 years

I will be spending the rest of the day thinking about this sentence: “She’s got a son—together—that’s a beautiful young man, and she feels very, very strongly about it”

MSNBC

@MSNBC

5 years

President Trump: "People are dying with vaping, so we're looking at it very closely."

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Jay Willis

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4 years

Okay fine, obviously the dinner in the first picture already happened but your lobbying/cyberbullying resulted in her getting a belated scoop of ice cream, congrats folks, you did it

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Jay Willis

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1 year

Remembering the letter Pat Tillman’s dad sent to the army investigator who helped cover up his son’s death

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

1 year

Kavanaugh hanging out with some real grade-A freaks here, but again, it’s inappropriate to question the impartiality of Supreme Court justices

melissa “cancelled student debt” byrne

@mcbyrne

1 year

Why is a SCOTUS Justice hanging out Gorka, Prince, and Spicer?

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1 year

Genuinely funny that Harlan Crow’s Nazi fetish has other right-wingers coming out of the woodwork like “How can he be weird when I, too, am somewhat of an appreciator of historical racists”

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

2 years

shoutout whichever clerk for a liberal justice said “fuck this bullshit” and sent politico a pdf, more of this please

POLITICO

@politico

2 years

The Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and obtained by POLITICO. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito writes.

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Jay Willis

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11 months

If you’re a Democratic Senate candidate in 2024 your stump speech begins and ends with “the Republican Supreme Court justices took your right to bodily autonomy and made you $10,000 poorer, and if you elect me I will vote to expand the Court to stop this from getting worse”

Ken Thomas

@KThomasDC

11 months

WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court strikes down Biden's plan to wipe away $400 billion in student loan debt.

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

1 year

Once again I am pleading with Senate Democrats to come up a plan other than “asking Republicans to start respecting Norms again”

Senate Democrats Are Giving the Supreme Court’s Corruption a Pass

The Clarence Thomas scandals are a golden political opportunity for Dick Durbin and his Democratic colleagues. They are blowing it.

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Jay Willis

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2 months

Thinking about the photographer in the room for Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation hearing who got bored and was like "what if I break out the Animorphs cover art lens"

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

3 years

Two nieces ages 7 and 3.5 spent the night here and it’s come to my attention that some of you have multiple children at all times, and I guess my questions are (1) what and (2) how

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Jay Willis

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1 year

This hearing is really something, Lindsey Graham keeps listing off shady stuff that other Supreme Court justices have done and asking "well would you have a problem with THAT" and every time I'm just like, yeah man, sounds bad actually, you should do something about it

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Jay Willis

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2 years

I feel like I'm having a stroke

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Jay Willis

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8 months

Genuinely curious whether reporters have ever asked Chuck Grassley and/or Neil Gorsuch about this guy. He was a Gorsuch clerk and Grassley’s chief counsel on nominations as recently as 2018, him coming out as a full-on racist vigilante fantasy freak seems relevant

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Jay Willis

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4 months

Darkly funny that the conservative activist pushing the Claudine Gay plagiarism story contacted one of the allegedly plagiarized authors for comment, and he was like “uh this is not plagiarism what are you talking about”

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Jay Willis

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4 years

Lest you I think I’m kidding about “every time,” I took this photo on January 21, 2017

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

4 years

In my opinion it’s good to say “fuck you” to elected officials who operate exclusively in bad faith, and more people should do it

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

2 years

Congrats to whichever very smart ABC News editor greenlit this poll that credulously adopts right-wing framing of the Supreme Court nomination, and will absolutely be cited as justification for smearing the eventual nominee as unqualified, just great stuff here

ABC News

@ABC

2 years

BREAKING: Just over three-quarters of Americans (76%) want Pres. Biden to consider "all possible nominees," while 23% want him to follow through on his commitment to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, per a new @ABC News/Ipsos poll.

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Jay Willis

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1 year

Thinking about the National Review blogger who spent the whole day writing a post explaining why Harlan Crow paying for Clarence Thomas’s kid’s tuition is Super Cool and Legal, and now has to deal with Leonard Leo being like “GIVE GINNI THOMAS THIS SACK OF CASH, NO FINGERPRINTS”

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

1 year

Exclusive: Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work nearly a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork.

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Jay Willis

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2 years

NORMAL PEOPLE: hey there are dead kids in schools, can you do something about that maybe? THE SUPREME COURT:

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

6 months

Okay, it finally happened, we can all have our fun tonight and then this web site can shut down for good

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

11 months

ProPublica emailed some questions for a story to Sam Alito and instead of answering the questions or just ignoring the email, he ran to his little gremlin friends at the WSJ Opinion section and wrote a blog post about it

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Jay Willis

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1 year

A federal judge had a crying 13-year-old girl handcuffed at her dad’s sentencing hearing for no reason other than to make her feel afraid. Unfortunately I cannot say more about this story without getting banned from this app

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Jay Willis

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2 years

It fucking rules that these people got everything they’ve been fighting for for their entire legal careers, and have now pivoted to complaining that people aren’t sufficiently respectful of them as a result

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Jay Willis

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8 months

Sorry am I clocking correctly here that one of the Koch events Clarence Thomas secretly attended happened to be one where they rolled out a new campaign to promote stacking the bench with conservatives, and put a Ginni Thomas lackey in charge of it

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Megyn Kelly

@megynkelly

1 year

Serious q for gun control advocates: you’ve failed to effect change. Pls face it. You can’t do it, thx to the 2A. We’re all well aware you don’t like that fact, but fact it is. What’s next? Must we just stay here sad, concerned, lamenting? Could we possibly talk OTHER SOLUTIONS?

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My plea to Supreme Court journalists this June is to stop presenting Supreme Court cases as fun little thought puzzle brain teasers without any of the political, social, or cultural context

What the Supreme Court Does Matters More Than What It Says

Legal journalists cannot responsibly cover cases about voting rights without mentioning that John Roberts opposes voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

10 months

I'm being serious when I say that Sam Alito says multiple things in this interview that would, if he were a liberal justice, immediately prompt calls from Republican lawmakers for his impeachment

Nate Raymond

@nateraymond

10 months

Justice Alito tells the @WSJ that Congress has no business policing SCOTUS. "I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it... No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period."

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Jay Willis

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4 years

Hear me out though, what if you *didn’t* depend on your employer for health care anymore, and could instead use your leverage in future negotiation to secure higher wages, more vacation, better parental leave, retirement benefits, education and student loan assistance, profit sha

Joe Biden

@JoeBiden

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You shouldn’t be forced to give up the health insurance and benefits that you fought for. Period.

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

2 years

"Fighting gay marriage is not a priority for the conservative legal movement," I proclaim, having never read a single goddamn thing Clarence Thomas or Sam Alito or Antonin Scalia have said or written in the past 30 years

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Jay Willis

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2 months

Reading the Wikipedia entry for “Born to Run” and lmao, wrecked

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Jay Willis

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2 years

What I simply do not understand is this trend of knowingly tut-tutting at criminal justice reformers over increases in crime *when the reforms for which criminal justice reformers argued did not happen*

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Jay Willis

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2 years

Here is Clarence Thomas, writing for 6 of 9 Supreme Court justices, explaining that the prospect of a federal court hearing evidence that a person on death row might be actually innocent is an "affront to the State" and its sacred right to kill people

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Jay Willis

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2 years

I’m not making this up, Laura Ingraham just blamed the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the Mueller investigation, I feel like I’m having a stroke

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Jay Willis

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8 months

“14 minute read” I love conservative media so much

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Jay Willis

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4 years

. @BLMSeattleKC says an estimated 60,000 people turned out for the Seattle Silent March today, which was basically two miles of this

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Jay Willis

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3 years

Folks, when a bunch of cops quit because they won't fulfill their job duties, it's totally fine to say "a bunch of cops quit because they won't fulfill their job duties" instead of treating them like war heroes

Kellee Azar

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3 years

Today, now former troopers with Washington State Patrol laid their boots and campaign hats on the steps of the Capitol Building to show represent those lost because of the statewide vaccine mandate. #LiveOnK2

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Jay Willis

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2 years

Stephen Breyer's soliloquy pleading with the conservatives not to overturn Roe and Casey due to "political pressure" or "new members" has major "band playing on the Titanic energy" this morning

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

8 months

Politicians are not your favorite athletes you root for on TV. They are stewards of power who are responsible for representing real people, and when they exercise that power carelessly, that’s as much a part of their legacy as anything they did in office. Sometimes even more so.

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Jay Willis

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4 years

I actually got a leaf blower last week, someone left one on the sidewalk on my dog-walking route with a “FREE IT WORKS” sign so I picked it up and carried it home, what I’m saying is that I am now a general in Antifa

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1 year

“Some say ‘wetlands’ are ‘waters’ because ‘water’ is ‘wet.’ However, this overlooks the critical distinction between ‘water’ and ‘waters,’” this is the stupidest shit I’ve ever read, do not let anyone ever tell you that law is real or coherent

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Jay Willis

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1 year

You don't have to believe Neil Gorsuch is taking bribes funneled through real estate deals to understand that a "disclosure" system that doesn't disclose a $2m transaction between a Supreme Court justice and a BigLaw CEO is a bribe waiting to happen

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

10 months

Please join me in calling on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to resign from the Supreme Court of the United States effective immediately

Jonathan H. Adler

@jadler1969

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I'm sure ProPublica is all over this one too . . . Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Mysterious $1 Million Prize

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1 year

The conservative narrative around Clarence Thomas is that he nobly pulled himself up by his bootstraps, but all the evidence indicates that he's a cynical gladhanding social climber who will say whatever he thinks it takes to get ahead …

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

2 years

Hey Senate Democrats maybe instead of “raising concerns” to Punchbowl (???) that Ketanji Brown Jackson was “unprepared” for an absolute onslaught of Republican QAnon smears, you could have lifted a single fucking finger to stop them? Have you considered “doing your jobs” here?

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Jay Willis

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Idea, replace Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court with his sister, she sounds way cooler

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1 year

The difference between the two parties is that Republicans treat Democrats as an enemy to be defeated, and Democrats treat Republicans as well-intentioned colleagues who are always just a brief, civil chat away from being persuaded to Do The Right Thing

Igor Bobic

@igorbobic

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Durbin says GOP should show “kindness” and agree to replace Feinstein on Judiciary. “Tomorrow this could happen to the Republicans…she’s in a delicate part of her life and her Senate service. They should stand by her and give her a dignified departure”

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Jay Willis

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2 years

Real life lol at Kavanaugh's "I just want to be clear for the record, you're not saying the Court should ban abortion here, right?" Dude genuinely imagines himself to be some moderate thoughtful compromiser instead of the most replacement-level FedSoc goofus imaginable

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

1 year

Federal judges just issuing a series of escalating “no fuck YOU” orders and everyone realizes the law is fake, I’m simply delighted

Mark Joseph Stern

@mjs_DC

1 year

Wow: Judge Thomas Rice issues a new order compelling the FDA to preserve access to mifepristone in 17 states and D.C.—without any of the old obstacles—"irrespective of" the 5th Circuit's decision. We have a direct conflict.

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Jay Willis

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2 years

Here’s the closer to the dissent from Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson. The death penalty is a stain and the American legal system should be plunged into the depths of the sea.

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Jay Willis

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2 years

You can trace a lot of problems in this country to the veneration of the Constitution as this brilliant, sweeping declaration of human and civil rights and not, like, a business deal that was the product of protracted contract negotiations between wealthy slaveholders

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repeatedly tagging his wife in every tweet about the story about her academic plagiarism, just to make sure no one ever associates her with anything other than academic plagiarism. recency bias but he might be the greatest main character in the history of this web site

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

3 years

Thinking about John Roberts huffily insisting that there’s no such thing as a “Trump judge”

Greg Stohr

@GregStohr

3 years

Inbox: Clarence Thomas and Mitch McConnell will give the keynote addresses at a Heritage Foundation symposium on Oct. 21 to mark Thomas' 30-year anniversary as a justice.

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Jay Willis

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2 years

Clarence Thomas is out here hosting Ron DeSantis for lunch with his clerks at the Supreme Court, but the official position of the entire conservative media ecosystem is that Thomas has little interest in “politics” and barely even pays attention to the news

American Oversight

@weareoversight

2 years

We obtained emails regarding a June 23, 2021, lunch that included Gov. DeSantis, Justice Clarence Thomas, & four clerks. Previously, we obtained an email from that same month in which Ginni Thomas said her husband had recently been in touch with DeSantis.

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Jay Willis

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11 months

Between Moore v. Harper and Milligan, we are absolutely gonna get a “John Roberts, the Supreme Court’s Unlikely Champion of Democracy” op-ed from someone this week, and I will walk out my front door and lie down in traffic

Steven Mazie

@stevenmazie

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BREAKING: Supreme Court *declines* to endorse the "independent state legislature" theory that would have throttled the power of state courts to interpret their state constitutions. The case is Moore v. Harper; the vote is 6-3.

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Jay Willis

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3 years

No substance, no policy ideas, absolutely no interest in doing the work of governing or representing his constituents. Being a Republican politician is just taking part in nonstop weirdo culture wars, constantly in search of some niche grievance to tell people to get mad about.

Ted Cruz

@tedcruz

3 years

Texan Gina Carano broke barriers in the Star Wars universe: not a princess, not a victim, not some emotionally tortured Jedi. She played a woman who kicked ass & who girls looked up to. She was instrumental in making Star Wars fun again. Of course Disney canceled her.

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Jay Willis

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2 years

The prosecutor asked members of the all-white jury if they were willing to “take the risk” that a Black defendant, if found not guilty, would “ask your daughter out, or your granddaughter out.” Again, his lawyers did not object. Again, totally fine, says the Supreme Court.

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

3 months

When news broke that Antonin Scalia had died I was doing a pub crawl in Reykjavik with friends, and we suddenly had a table of bewildered French tourists celebrating the dawn of the first liberal Supreme Court majority in 50 years. Anyway things went great after that.

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

4 years

I say this with all due respect: If you are a Democratic politician who clings to the belief that you can negotiate a way to save American democracy that doesn't involve getting rid of the filibuster and expanding the Supreme Court, it is time to shut the fuck up

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

2 years

[me, a political pundit doing an obligatory Ken Starr hagiography tweet] Although he could be a lightning rod, no one can deny [scrolls to the next section of his Wikipedia] ah, well, at least [scrolls to the next section of his Wikipedia] look, at the end of the day, [scrolls to

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

1 year

Look, if you think Kyle Duncan is the "adult" in this exchange with a Stanford Law student, let alone a guy sincerely trying to have a civil dialogue with people with whom he disagrees, and definitely not trying to just get blurbed on Fox News primteime,🤷‍♂️

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

5 months

you gotta be kidding me

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

1 year

The reason legacy Supreme Court reporters never reported on Supreme Court corruption is that legacy Supreme Court reporters care about getting book deals and maintaining access to the justices, not about holding powerful people accountable

Legal Journalism Is Broken

The conservative takeover of the Court is putting traditional legal media to the test. The results are not encouraging.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

3 years

Every year my neighbors repurpose their Halloween decorations for Christmas and every year the result is deeply unsettling in its intricacy

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

2 years

this you?

Noah Feldman

@NoahRFeldman

2 years

Supreme Court Abortion Ruling In Dobbs Is Institutional Suicide - Bloomberg

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

2 years

[frantically looking around for a new grift after being professionally upset about masks for two years] AHA!

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

3 years

The way Texas's anti-choice law actually works in practice is so diabolical and dystopian that it almost sounds fake. A Rube Goldberg machine of state-sanctioned misogyny. A quick thread on what the Supreme Court allowed to take effect last night:

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

4 months

Counterpoint: I Am Good, Actually

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