Of the judges who have blocked the unelected billionaire’s efforts to take over the government, you can probably guess which ...

The Court's decision in the USAID lawsuit reveals an institution perilously close to making Donald Trump a king.

Late last week, the Trump White House dropped yet another unconstitutional executive order that threatens whatever remains of the rule of law. But rather than once again targeting one of his old ...

Each year, of the thousands of petitions for review that the Supreme Court receives, the justices typically grant fewer than 100. For just about everyone else, a decision made by one of the 13 federal ...

There are currently 53 federal judicial vacancies without a nominee. Of these, 8 are district court judgeships where Democratic senators can veto a nominee under the blue slip policy observed by the ...

In a one-sentence order last month, the Supreme Court declined to review Davis v. Smith, a case about an Ohio man challenging his conviction for attempted murder on the grounds that detectives had ...

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court decided yet another case making it harder to protect the environment, siding with the city of San Francisco in its challenge to limitations on dumping sewage in ...

This week’s joint address to Congress allowed President Donald Trump to do two of his favorite things: regurgitate racist tropes about immigrants on TV, and then work the red carpet afterwards, ...

Earlier this month, Mother Jones reported that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency that investigates allegations of illegal workplace discrimination, had suddenly stopped ...

What do you all do? Balls & Strikes publishes original commentary and reporting about courts, the judges who preside over them, and the legal system they uphold. Ah, but I already read Noah Feldman’s ...