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 ...

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 ...

The 2024 election was historically expensive: Last month, Open Secrets projected that state and federal election spending for the 2023-2024 cycle will exceed $20 billion. Yet that massive sum still ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In December 2020, the Biden administration asked all 50 Democratic senators for potential judicial nominees who have worked as public defenders, civil rights lawyers, legal aid attorneys, and others ...

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 ...