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

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

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 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 ...

On Tuesday, as 2024 mercifully came to a close, Chief Justice John Roberts issued his year-end report on the federal judiciary. The report contained all of the meaningful self-reflection that Supreme ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everything you need to know about writing about the Supreme Court, and getting paid for the associated mental and emotional anguish you invite upon yourself by doing so. Do you find the simultaneous ...