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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, Mother Jones reported that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency that investigates allegations of illegal workplace discrimination, had suddenly stopped ...

For the past five weeks, co-presidents Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been taking a sledgehammer to the federal government. On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order to establish a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of President Joe Biden’s earliest campaign pledges was to remake the federal bench to better reflect the diversity of the country it serves. Whatever else you want to say about the Biden ...