The Court's decision in the USAID lawsuit reveals an institution perilously close to making Donald Trump a king.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court decided yet another case making it harder to protect the environment, siding with the city of San Francisco in its challenge to limitations on dumping sewage in ...

This week’s joint address to Congress allowed President Donald Trump to do two of his favorite things: regurgitate racist tropes about immigrants on TV, and then work the red carpet afterwards, ...

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 ...

Last month, Mitch McConnell ended his record-setting 18-year reign as the Republican Party’s leader in the Senate. McConnell, 82, will continue to serve until his term ends in 2027, but “from a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...