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 ...

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 ...

On September 6, 2023, the Senate confirmed Gwynne Wilcox for a second five-year term on the National Labor Relations Board, the independent federal agency charged with protecting and enforcing workers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are currently 48 federal judicial vacancies without a nominee. Of these, 5 are district court judgeships where Democratic senators can veto a nominee under the blue slip policy observed by the ...

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, ...

There are four million people with felony convictions in the United States who are legally prohibited from voting for president. One very famous person convicted of a felony will be president in ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court will hear consolidated oral arguments in TikTok v. Garland and Firebaugh v. Garland, the two cases challenging the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversaries Controlled ...