Jay Willis

In my view, Amy Coney Barrett kicking off her book tour by doing a sold-out event with Bari Weiss and publishing an exclusive excerpt in The Free Press should end the "Supreme Court justices are not motivated by ideology" discourse once and for all ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

I have a theory about the identity of the perpetrator here

The Washington Post sent me a push alert for this dreck, and I would like to know who made that decision so I can incite them to meet me in the Octagon

I respect Ed Blum's commitment to litigating the most embarrassing and morally reprehensible cases while insisting on dressing like manager of an LL Bean Kids ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Here to report some really sad news: Forbes has taken down one of my favorite blog posts of all time, "If I Was a Poor Black Kid" by Gene Marks. No one's done it like him since. web.archive.org/web/20111212...

Forget about everything else, a pretty simple test for whether your legal argument is good or bad is whether it entails you saying the words “Philip Hamburger is exactly right” with a straight face

If a Supreme Court justice is willing to publicly call out Brett Kavanaugh as a silver-spoon doofus who has no idea what life is like for people who aren't rich white guys, I promise you that the justices are saying some WILD stuff about him in private

Somehow, the bodycam footage of Alabama police arresting a Black pastor watering his vacationing neighbor's flowers makes the story even more surreal than the headline suggests. They keep threatening to cuff a man who is *actively spraying planter boxes the entire time*.

The extended riff on a dying Bill Belichick preparing to enter heaven by jamming St. Peter at the line of scrimmage made me laugh as hard as I’ve laughed at a podcast in a long time

This morning, I got to walk around the South Minneapolis neighborhood where my mom grew up. Seeing *entire blocks*, both sides of the street, with handwritten NO ICE and ICE OUT MSP signs taped to the front windows was one of the most moving things I’ve experienced in some time.

I am relaying this cursed sequence of words from a hotel lobby showing Fox & Friends this morning: “America’s only Christian conservative wireless provider, now powering Jason Aldean’s Songs About Us tour 2026”

So I’ve been offline today but I am getting the sense that Things Were Not Great

I will reiterate the Jay Willis Promise: If you’re cool and we have occasion to meet up IRL and you remind me before I pack, I will probably bring you a bobblehead of John Roberts in an umpire costume, crossing his fingers, stomping on the Voting Rights Act