Archive - clayjakstack

Grand jurors are fighting back

There’s a famous speech the late Justice Scalia delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee back in 2011.

Sep 8 •

Originalism is bunk

Let’s talk about originalism.

Sep 6 •

August 2025

Leonard Leo’s Next Target: The Midterms

No longer content to just own the judiciary, he’s now pumping dark money straight into the 2026 midterms.

Aug 27 •

The taxation-is-theft dorks sure are quiet

Let’s get something straight: this isn’t about politics. This is unconstitutional, unlawful, flat-out banana republic nonsense.

Aug 26 •

Memphis wrote a blank check to a billionaire Nazi with a god complex

Memphis has always been a company town. Elon's Colossus is just the latest chapter.

Aug 23 •

The FedSoc Grift

The truth is ugly, but it’s clear now. FedSoc isn’t a debating club. It’s not an intellectual movement. It’s a revenge machine. And it’s been eating the…

Aug 20 •

Waylon > Wallen

Country music should taste like a West Texas dive bar: cheap whiskey and cigarettes at 2 a.m

Aug 19 •

The last six months

Sometimes I think the indifference is worse than the outright cruelty

Aug 14 •

West from Memphis

My journey from the flooded timber of the Delta to the quail fields of far West Texas

Published on clayjakstack • Aug 10

The right way to wear a robe

There was a time when federal judge meant something.

Aug 8 •

My first week in West Texas felt like living a Hunter S. Thompson dispatch narrated by Anthony Bourdain

There’s a kind of silence in West Texas that you don’t hear anywhere else.

Published on clayjakstack • Aug 7

I joined Half the Answer to talk about the men waiting to be executed by the State of Texas

Aug 1 •

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