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fromSan Francisco Bay Times
3 hours ago
US politics

Calvinball: LGBTIQ Rights Before the Supreme Court Again Soon - San Francisco Bay Times

A Republican-nominated Supreme Court supermajority applies shifting legal rules favoring the Trump administration and often grants religious exemptions that undermine LGBTIQ protections.
fromABA Journal
1 month ago
US politics

Justice Jackson accuses Supreme Court majority of playing Calvinball

Supreme Court majority stayed a district-court order, allowing NIH to end $783 million in grants tied to diversity, gender identity, and COVID-19; termed 'Calvinball jurisprudence.'
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fromAbove the Law
4 weeks ago

Jonathan Turley Challenges Justice Jackson To Calvinball In Most Embarrassing Display Yet - Above the Law

Citing the fictional sport from the watershed comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, Jackson wrote 'Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.' As a dissent in yet another shadow docket decision allowing the administration to take arbitrary and capricious action free from the constraints of either statute or judicial oversight, the Calvinball analogy hit home.
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