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

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 ...

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 ...

Last June, a New Jersey grand jury returned a blockbuster 111-page indictment of George Norcross III, a state Democratic Party boss allegedly at the center of a vast corruption scheme. He and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent Department of Justice guidance—perhaps “threat” more appropriately captures its approach—regarding private-sector use of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs has rightfully drawn ire from ...

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 ...

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 ...

On February 5, Pam Bondi took the oath of office as U.S. Attorney General and became the head of the Department of Justice. Within hours, she sent a memo to all DOJ employees advising them that the ...