In North Carolina, Republican state supreme court justices will soon decide whether to overturn an election to seat a ...

In May 2024, a New York jury found President-elect Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, ...

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 year, Black Louisianans successfully argued in federal court that the state’s Republican-led legislature unlawfully diluted their voting strength, by adopting a redistricting plan that packed the ...

There are currently 45 federal judicial vacancies without a nominee. Of these, 4 are district court judgeships where Democratic senators can veto a nominee under the blue slip policy observed by the ...

For nearly all of this country’s 250-year-old history, courts deciding whether a gun law was constitutional were able to consider how much of an impact the law had on a person’s ability to exercise ...

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 ...

Which judges are giving Donald Trump the chance to appoint their successors? Lifetime federal judges who meet age and service requirements can take “senior status,” which allows the president to ...

Early Tuesday morning, the Department of Justice released Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report of his efforts to prosecute former and soon-to-be President Donald Trump for trying to overturn the ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court will hear consolidated oral arguments in TikTok v. Garland and Firebaugh v. Garland, the two cases challenging the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversaries Controlled ...