The newspaper comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” had a fictional game called “Calvinball,” the rules of which are made up and constantly changing. The only fixed rule is that you can’t play it the same way twice.
The game appeared in a Supreme Court opinion Thursday, when Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused her colleagues of “Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist.”
In a solo opinion on the Trump administration’s quest to cut National Institutes of Health research grants, she wrote that in the court’s version of Calvinball, “this Administration always wins.”
New hero identified. Calvinball was a staple of my childhood
Totally agree - couldn’t be more head over heels for that reference!
Being that she’s the most qualified person to ever sit on that court, it’s nice to know she’s even more qualified with an understanding of C&H.
Be even cooler if she knew about Fizzbin.
Bill Watterson probably loves and hates this.
The whole U.S. political system, and broadly the history of human society is Calvin Ball. Where do you think Bill Watterson got the idea from?
Tigers ate my woke liberal agenda.
I wonder how Bill feels about his influence on federal case law.
How does Calvin feel?
Baller
