The conservative legal movement is disappointed in Amy Coney Barrett. Last Tuesday, Barrett dissented along with the three liberal justices from the Court’s decision in San Francisco v. EPA, in which ...

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.

Last Thursday, a federal district court judge in Washington, D.C., issued a decision declaring that President Donald Trump broke the law when he fired Gwynne Wilcox, the first Black woman ever to sit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week, The Washington Post published a list of “50 People Shaping Our Society in 2025” that included Texas attorney Jonathan Mitchell, whom it described as “part cultural conservative, part ...