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The only "expert opinions" the conservative justices care about are their own

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 6h

Do not let the Supreme Court's diligent advocacy for Donald Trump distract you from the Supreme Court's perpetual skepticism of the rights of criminal defendants

The Supreme Court Is Getting Back to Basics (Not Caring About Criminal Defendants’ Rights)

After a summer of giving Donald Trump everything he wants, the justices opened their new term with a case that could further limit the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

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For the conservative justices, "scientific debate" means whatever is best for their preferred policy agenda

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 1d

The case of a person who might have to spend decades in prison is basically a chance for the justices to do some interesting thought experiments

The Supreme Court Is Getting Back to Basics (Not Caring About Criminal Defendants’ Rights)

After a summer of giving Donald Trump everything he wants, the justices opened their new term with a case that could further limit the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 1d

The simplest way to understand the Supreme Court's policy agenda is to look at how conservative activists are framing the cases that will come before the justices this fall

The Story of This Supreme Court Term Is Already On YouTube

How conservative activists are building a shared cultural understanding about who deserves the law’s protections, and who does not.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 1d

The Supreme Court opened its new term by doing what it does best: acting openly skeptical of the rights of criminal defendants

The Supreme Court Is Getting Back to Basics (Not Caring About Criminal Defendants’ Rights)

After a summer of giving Donald Trump everything he wants, the justices opened their new term with a case that could further limit the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 1d

Antonin Scalia had nothing but contempt for Anthony Kennedy, and yet Kennedy is still cranking out credulous Scalia hagiography in his new memoir

Here Is Anthony Kennedy’s Heartwarming Story About the Time Antonin Scalia Humiliated Him In Public

Even the highest-profile victims of Scalia’s rage are doing credulous hagiography about him.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 1d

Even in Supreme Court justice-adjusted terms, it is incredible how wrong Brett Kavanaugh manages to be about basic reality

Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day

Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 2d

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar, a case about whether the First Amendment protects licensed counselors' free speech right to tell their LGBTQ clients to "pray away the gay"

Right-Wing Activists Are Pushing For a Constitutional Right to Harm LGBTQ Kids

The Alliance Defending Freedom wants the Republican justices to hold that the First Amendment protects homophobes’ legal right to ignore state laws that protect kids.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 5d

This guy will never run out of ways to embarrass himself in public

Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day

Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 5d

Finally, a Supreme Court justice is taking notice of the real crisis of our time

Anthony Kennedy: The Real Crisis at the Supreme Court Is Justices Being Rude to Each Other

For a guy who is purportedly worried about the future of democracy, he sure did a lot to erode it.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 5d

Come, let us together watch some of the corniest videos the right-wing YouTube channel universe has to offer

The Story of This Supreme Court Term Is Already On YouTube

How conservative activists are building a shared cultural understanding about who deserves the law’s protections, and who does not.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 5d

"Immigration agents all follow the rules and are very polite," says Brett Kavanaugh, a man who apparently does not have access to the internet

Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day

Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 5d

The really remarkable part of this story is that Anthony Kennedy thinks anyone gives a shit what he has to say about anything anymore

Anthony Kennedy: The Real Crisis at the Supreme Court Is Justices Being Rude to Each Other

For a guy who is purportedly worried about the future of democracy, he sure did a lot to erode it.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 6d

To win their cases, all conservative activists have to do is tell a story they know Neil Gorsuch wants to hear, and trust him to lap it up

The Story of This Supreme Court Term Is Already On YouTube

How conservative activists are building a shared cultural understanding about who deserves the law’s protections, and who does not.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 6d

For the conservative legal movement, no right is more sacred than bigots' "free speech" right to discriminate

Right-Wing Activists Are Pushing For a Constitutional Right to Harm LGBTQ Kids

The Alliance Defending Freedom wants the Republican justices to hold that the First Amendment protects homophobes’ legal right to ignore state laws that protect kids.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 6d

Want to know where the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority is headed next? Just open YouTube

The Story of This Supreme Court Term Is Already On YouTube

How conservative activists are building a shared cultural understanding about who deserves the law’s protections, and who does not.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 7d

The Supreme Court's "Trump can do whatever he wants, except mess with the Fed, for reasons" jurisprudence continues apace

The Supreme Court Really Expects You to Take This Craven Horseshit Seriously

The conservative justices looked at the most embarrassing line in Bush v. Gore and thought, "Yeah, let’s do that again."

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 7d

Conservative interest groups are trying to rewrite the First Amendment to elevate their religious beliefs above everything else

Right-Wing Activists Are Pushing For a Constitutional Right to Harm LGBTQ Kids

The Alliance Defending Freedom wants the Republican justices to hold that the First Amendment protects homophobes’ legal right to discriminate.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 7d

We are all trying to find the guy who did this

Anthony Kennedy: The Real Crisis at the Supreme Court Is Justices Being Rude to Each Other

For a guy who is purportedly worried about the future of democracy, he sure did a lot to erode it.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 8d

Another year, another Alliance Defending Freedom-sponsored Supreme Court case asking for a legal right to hurt LGBTQ people

Right-Wing Activists Are Pushing For a Constitutional Right to Harm LGBTQ Kids

The Alliance Defending Freedom wants the Republican justices to hold that the First Amendment protects homophobes’ legal right to discriminate.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 8d

"What Rehnquist understood is that within the conservative legal movement, the way to get power is not to hide who you are. It is to put who you are fully on display, and trust that the right people will notice."

William Rehnquist Was the Original Trump Judge

Two decades after Rehnquist’s death, a new generation of conservative activists is scoring life-tenured federal judgeships by following in his unabashedly bigoted footsteps.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 8d

"In the past, defying court orders would have disqualified a lawyer from consideration for a judgeship. But for Trump and the MAGA movement, it’s their ticket to ride."

For Trump’s Latest Judicial Nominees, Trump Is a Law Unto Himself

Can presidents be criminally prosecuted for using the military to kill their political opponents? Trump's nominees keep having a hard time with this question!

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 8d

Here are some stories about what a racist little freak William Rehnquist was

William Rehnquist Was the Original Trump Judge

Two decades after Rehnquist’s death, a new generation of conservative activists is scoring life-tenured federal judgeships by following in his unabashedly bigoted footsteps.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 8d

The best originalism Brett Kavanaugh has ever done is the opinion where he just admits "I think this is how things should be"

Brett Kavanaugh’s Lazy Racial Profiling Opinion Is the Most Honest Originalism He’s Ever Done

There is a long, grim history of Supreme Court justices deciding big cases by appealing to what they think feels right.

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