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

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

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 52 federal judicial vacancies without a nominee. Of these, 7 are district court judgeships where Democratic senators can veto a nominee under the blue slip policy observed by the ...

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, ...

Noah Feldman, the liberal Harvard Law School professor who specializes in constitutional law and being wrong in public, has dedicated his latest Bloomberg column to President Donald Trump’s first two ...

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 ...

Welcome back to the second part of our two-part series looking at what President Donald Trump can do to alter the makeup of the powerful regional courts of appeals during his second term. In the first ...

Last month, the Alabama House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted in favor of a bill that would expand the availability of the death penalty to people convicted of rape of a child under the age of ...