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fromABA Journal
1 week ago

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.'
fromAbove the Law
1 week 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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