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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following up on repeated campaign promises, the Trump administration has started pursuing the mass deportation of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants present in the United States. Some ...

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, ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order challenging birthright citizenship is more than an ineffectual attempt to change the law or redefine the identity of the nation. It represents a calculated ...

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 Election Day 2024, Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, won re-election to a full eight-year term on the North Carolina Supreme Court. Her Republican opponent, Jefferson Griffin, is now asking the ...