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 ...

If you’re of the opinion that having a federal judiciary composed of Newsmax-pilled reactionaries is a bad thing, 2025 probably isn’t going to be your year. Same goes if you think things like “the ...

Each year, on a single night in January, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) counts the number of people living in shelters, temporary housing, and unsheltered settings like in ...

In May 2024, the New York Times revealed that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had flags affiliated with far-right extremist movements flying outside of his residences. Alito’s conduct triggered ...

Last year, in both Tennessee and Montana, Republican lawmakers banned medical professionals from providing gender-affirming healthcare to transgender youths. Both statutes arose out of a nationwide ...

Judicial nominee Adeel Mangi published a scathing letter to President Joe Biden on Monday denouncing the Senate’s process for confirming judges as “fundamentally broken” and criticizing the Senate ...

Back in 2023, the Supreme Court issued its first-ever code of conduct for the justices, at last tacitly acknowledging that the institution’s inability to impose consequences for its members’ various ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...