Constitutional calvinball.
April 30, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Constitutional calvinball.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
Constitutional calvinball
According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans.
President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.
President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Constitutional calvinball
the whole thing is calvinball now, calvinball tomorrow, calvinball forever
July 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
the whole thing is calvinball now, calvinball tomorrow, calvinball forever
Constitutional calvinball
The Supreme Court's Republicans let Alabama's GOP cancel an imminent primary to implement a House gerrymander that a lower court had blocked in 2023 over intentional racism.
But now SCOTUS rules it's too close to the next elections for a lower court to again block the map for harming Black voters
But now SCOTUS rules it's too close to the next elections for a lower court to again block the map for harming Black voters
June 3, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Constitutional calvinball
all this sweaty calvinball horseshit feels like hysterical panic from the court
May 11, 2026 at 10:34 PM
all this sweaty calvinball horseshit feels like hysterical panic from the court
Constitutional Calvinball
if the Constitution needs to say that state sovereignty is too important to allow Congress the feds to regulate elections, then that's what it says. if the Constitution also needs to say that national elections are too important to let states determine ballot qualifications, then it says that too.
March 4, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Constitutional Calvinball
Henceforth known as John "Calvinball" Roberts.
August 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Henceforth known as John "Calvinball" Roberts.
Imagine explaining to Bill Watterson while he was drawing this that "Calvinball" would one day appear in a United States Supreme Court dissent
August 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Imagine explaining to Bill Watterson while he was drawing this that "Calvinball" would one day appear in a United States Supreme Court dissent
they’re playing calvinball, always have been.
"Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE — the mysterious Trump administration operation overseeing an effort to break and remake the federal bureaucracy. In fact, he’s not even technically part of it at all, the White House said in court papers Monday night."
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
Who’s in charge of DOGE? Not Elon Musk, White House says
A Trump administration personnel official says Musk has "no actual or formal authority to make government decisions."
www.politico.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
they’re playing calvinball, always have been.
Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball
December 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball
His great contribution to law: Calvinball
Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.
July 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
His great contribution to law: Calvinball
As Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said in an earlier dissent, it's Calvinball
July 3, 2026 at 2:32 PM
As Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said in an earlier dissent, it's Calvinball
Calvinball Coup
These same Justices held Biden could not use a statute passed by Congress for student debt relief because the statute authorized it but needed to extra double authorize it.
But for Trump, he can simply ignore statutes and appropriations entirely, Congress is irrelevant.
But for Trump, he can simply ignore statutes and appropriations entirely, Congress is irrelevant.
Justice Alito dissents, along with Thomas, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Here is the final paragraph from the dissent.
March 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Calvinball Coup
"major questions" doctrine was the most calvinball of calvinball plays in the entire goddamn book.
July 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"major questions" doctrine was the most calvinball of calvinball plays in the entire goddamn book.
Siri, what’s Calvinball?
October 24, 2023 at 4:41 AM
Siri, what’s Calvinball?
yes. you cannot win calvinball by taking advantage of the new rules. you have to fire the refs
As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump
June 29, 2026 at 4:27 PM
yes. you cannot win calvinball by taking advantage of the new rules. you have to fire the refs
Constitutional calvinball
Sotomayor comes very close to calling the supermajority a pack of liars for claiming in Callais that they weren’t requiring proof of discriminatory intent then turning around and doing exactly that here. This is a remarkably blunt and caustic accusation. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The majority’s order grapples with virtually none of this.
Indeed, it does not even acknowledge that the District
Court’s discriminatory-intent finding is reviewed for clear
error. Much of its reasoning rests on its assertion that, even
as to the plaintiffs’ Fourteenth Amendment claim, “the Dis-
trict Court’s analysis departed from Callais.” Ante, at 3.
That is wrong twice over. First, Callais “said not a word
about the standard for Fourteenth Amendment intentional-
discrimination claims.” Caster, 608 U. S., at ___
(SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 4). Instead, Callais
was focused on changing the Court’s law on “exactly what
§2 of the Voting Rights Act demands,” not what the Consti-
tution demands. 608 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 19). Second,
Callais said that its newly fashioned test for §2 disparate-
impact claims is not an intent-based test. It acknowledged
that §2 “does not demand a finding of intentional discrimi-
nation.” Id., at ___ (slip op., at 23). It also denied JUSTICE
KAGAN’s charge that the majority’s new test was an intent
test in all but name. Id., at ____ (slip op., at 35). It is hard
to see how the District Court’s finding of discriminatory in-
tent under the Fourteenth Amendment could have de-
parted from an opinion that purported to say nothing about
how to find discriminatory intent under the Fourteenth
Amendment. The Court’s apparently oblivious insistence
to the contrary today cannot be squared with what Callais
said on its face just over one month ago. See id., at ___, n.
5 (KAGAN, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 25, n. 5) (“[T]he major-
ity closes its opinion by suggesting it is not requiring a vote-
dilution plaintiff to present evidence of ‘discriminatory in-
tent.’ Which, if true, would be welcome news” (citation
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June 3, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Constitutional calvinball
Everyone needs to internalize that the law is Calvinball right now, and if you do not Calvinball you are going to lose
I'm just spitballing, but as someone else suggested you make it illegal to process the withholdings, and you do some major posturing about how the state will deal with federal agents who come in trying to enforce federal requirements.
Messy? Yes.
Things are going to have to get messy, though.
Messy? Yes.
Things are going to have to get messy, though.
would also need to somehow convince every employer that they can just stop processing federal withholdings. tough sell to say the absolute least
October 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Everyone needs to internalize that the law is Calvinball right now, and if you do not Calvinball you are going to lose
Constitutional calvinball
This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters
May 12, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Constitutional calvinball
Calvinball ass system
May 5, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Calvinball ass system