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This Might Be the Trump DOJ’s Stupidest Legal Argument Yet

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By Jay Willis
| Balls & Strikes
For decades, the Department of Justice has been perhaps the legal profession’s most prestigious employer, leveraging its reputation for principled independence in order to recruit top-end talent. Now, as the first half of President Donald Trump’s second term comes to a close, it is functionally a shambolic fraternity house of Republican law school graduates who would otherwise be advertising flat-rate divorce packages on the men’s rights subreddit.
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There Is No Right-Wing Culture War These Two Justices Won’t Fight

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By Jay Willis
| Balls & Strikes
This article was published in partnership with Slate. In an unsigned order on Wednesday, the Supreme Court denied the Trump administration’s request for permission to implement what is, even by the Trump administration’s standards, a remarkably barbaric element of its anti-trans agenda: a blanket denial of gender-affirming healthcare to transgender people in federal prison for the first time in three decades.
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James Ho Ponders Auditions, Ambitions, and the Crushing Meaninglessness of Human Existence

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By Jay Willis
| Balls & Strikes
Of the sweaty, desperate men who have spent the last several years auditioning to become President Donald Trump’s fourth Supreme Court nominee, none have been more shameless than James Ho. Ho, whom Trump appointed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2018, has sought to earn Trump’s attention by (among many other things) playing footsie with racist conspiracy theories, complaining about cancel culture, and unironically using the phrase “woke Constitution.” In a law review article...
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