Shortly after taking the oath of office on Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that purports to end birthright citizenship—this country’s 157-year-old tradition of conferring ...

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 ...

Donald Trump re-made the federal judiciary between 2017 and 2021. His 234 nominees confirmed to the federal bench include judges like Matthew Kacsmaryk, Aileen Cannon, James Ho, and others who have ...

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 ...

Over half of American workers, amounting to upwards of 80 million people, participate in a retirement plan sponsored by their employer. And while the specifics of these plans can vary from job to job, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...