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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed

If you’d asked me to parody how silly and broken legal journalism is, I genuinely don’t think I could have come up with “so the best-known ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court outlet is now run by an ex-Trump DOJ flack who had her longtime personal friend Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding”

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SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a hell of a piece.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/09/2026

I did persuade my 3-year-old son to go on a wallet hunt with me. He’s currently wearing my headlamp and trying to find cobwebs so he can vacuum them

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It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?

Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing

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How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/09/2026

Guys, it was in the pocket of the shorts I wore yesterday

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GOOD NEWS: A phone call has confirmed that my wallet is NOT at the brewery where I last paid for something on Sunday BAD NEWS: My wallet is therefore somewhere in my house, and I have checked everywhere and do not have a blessed idea where it could be

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This is important, not because many regular people read SCOTUSblog, but because media outlets still treat it as a good resource

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"Sign up for SCOTUSblog Plus so that Sarah Isgur can text you about the Supreme Court" should be a legally actionable threat

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SCHMITT, GRINNING: I don't think you know that we have this stuff. So I'll give you a second, so you don't perjure yourself. SMITH, LOOKING LIKE HE'S STRAINING TO MAKE OUT THE SAILBOAT IN THE MAGIC EYE IMAGE: You uh just took it down really quick, if I could look at that again?

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith adopting the sort of bewildered deadpan affect of Coach Beard in 'Ted Lasso' throughout this clip might be the comic performance of the year

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#ELB: Jay Willis Pens Must-Read Piece on the Sad Demise of SCOTUSBlog (Gift link) electionlawblog.org/2026/jay-willis…

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

Ryan please I get paid by the click

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it is just monumentally depressing that at the time we need honest supreme court coverage the most, the place that used to be the best resource for it has been turned - like most other media outlets - into a sycophantic shitshow dedicated to glazing the worst people in america

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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed

ballsandstrikes.org

SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.

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It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?

slate.com

How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 28/09/2026

Finally, Protestants have their answer to Catholic guilt

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The fact that a guy who once called Joe Biden a "great national nightmare" is now a slam-dunk judicial nominee is a pretty tidy illustration of how openly partisan judicial nominations are for the Trump White House. They want Republicans who will do what Mister Trump wants, and they sure found one.

Trump Nominee: For Ethical Reasons, I Cannot Discuss the Time I Called Biden a “Great National Nightmare”

Lots of judges are Republicans. Not all of them are this loud about it.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 28/09/2026

Easily the funniest part of meeting parents at my kid's school is when they ask what I do, and I explain I'm a journalist and write about the law and the Supreme Court, and I see a flicker of horror on their faces that is very clearly, "Wait, does this guy think women shouldn't be allowed to vote"

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 28/09/2026

Once you see Sean McVay’s Kash Patel eyes, you really cannot unsee them

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/09/2026

I kept JSN in fantasy from last season, but offered him to half the league in trades in August because I was very nervous about The Regression this year. Lol, lmao.

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really fascinating to see isgur conduct this interview as if conservative election mistrust has materialized out of nowhere or as if liberal claims of voter suppression are totally baseless. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...

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Opinion | How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections?

And how we learn to trust elections again.

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I told the 3-year-old I love him very much and he immediately hit me with “thank you”

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I meant that the school* should be seized and razed but you know what, I’m gonna let it stand

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/09/2026

Well, it’s pretty simple: USC and everyone ever associated with it are bad and should be seized by the state and razed to the ground

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Also, Greg Cook was a Trump delegate in 2020 and he says he was in Birmingham on January 6, but I’d like to plant this flag: At some point in the next two years Trump is gonna nominate someone to the bench who legit marched on the Capitol

Trump Nominee: For Ethical Reasons, I Cannot Discuss the Time I Called Biden a “Great National Nightmare”

Lots of judges are Republicans. Not all of them are this loud about it.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/09/2026

It’s always silly when judges insist that they are magically nonpartisan and have no political beliefs, but it’s especially funny when you have a long track record of saying things like “ANY REPUBLICAN IS BETTER THAN ANY DEMOCRAT” (all caps in original)

Trump Nominee: For Ethical Reasons, I Cannot Discuss the Time I Called Biden a “Great National Nightmare”

Lots of judges are Republicans. Not all of them are this loud about it.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/09/2026

I’m catching up on DVR, but the booth just referred to a player in the Cal-Clemson game as a “seventh-year senior” and my mind is spinning

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/09/2026

I called for an HVAC tuneup and my call was answered by Dane, an AI agent that identified itself as AI but also had background chatter and keyboard sounds to make it sound like it was a call center. I told Dane that that creeped the shit out of me and he apologized and said he was just here to help.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/09/2026

Really enjoyed reading Greg Cook, a Trump nominee to a district court in Alabama, spend roughly 50 pages explaining that the time he said that "ANY REPUBLICAN IS BETTER THAN ANY DEMOCRAT" does not in any way suggest that he might be biased in favor of Republicans

Trump Judicial Nominee: For Ethical Reasons, I Cannot Discuss the Time I Called Biden a “Great National Nightmare”

Lots of judges are Republicans. Not all of them are this loud about it.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/09/2026

so this is how I find out what you really think of the chat

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Checking in on keen insights from this year’s SCOTUSblog summit, which included the general counsels of Boeing and Exxon complimenting the justices for "their well-developed, well-thought-through approaches to deciding cases,” and for "calling it as best they can" www.scotusblog.com/2026/09/at-a...

Lat next asked whether the lawyers considered the Roberts court “pro-“ or “anti-business.” Gerry countered that it was neither. Instead, he said, the court was made up of “nine justices who have well-developed, well-thought-through approaches to deciding cases” that lead to “a result in a case,” regardless of who’s on what side of the case.

Callanan pointed to the tariffs case as evidence of the difficulty of making such a determination. Whether it was a pro-business case, he suggested, depends on your vantage point: two different businesses – a lumber company, which benefited from the tariffs, or a toy store, which often imported its products from overseas – would have two entirely different views on the question.

Taylor acknowledged that “if you’re looking to make that argument” that the court is pro-business, “you can find it,” but he contended that it’s also easy to make the argument that the court is anti-business. “And that,” he concluded, “tells me that they’re calling it as best they can.”

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Trump administration allows inadvertent killing of endangered species

I am skeptical this will survive in court, but if it does, basically the only thing that will be a crime under the Endangered Species Act is wearing a T-shirt that says MY SPECIFIC INTENT IS TO KILL BABY SEALS and then walking up to baby seals on the beach and clubbing them to death

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Inadvertently killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would no longer be considered illegal under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act

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Sir this is a Dick’s Drive-In

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