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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 …

2021年9月15日 · Jay is the Editor-in-Chief of Balls & Strikes. Previously, he was a staff writer at GQ and a senior contributor to The Appeal. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, …

2025年1月15日 · 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 …

2025年1月14日 · 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 …

Read on to find out who President Biden is nominating to the bench, how the pace of Senate confirmations compares to previous administrations, and how this new cohort of life-tenured …

4 天之前 · The following year, in Collins v. Yellen, the Court went even further, ruling that the structure of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, too, was unconstitutional.Like the CFPB, …

2024年10月4日 · To promote Lovely One, Jackson stuck with mainstream outlets—the kinds of places where a law student’s non-lawyer parents might learn about the book and buy them a …

2024年10月8日 · Earlier today, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Garland v. VanDerStok, the justices’ latest opportunity to threaten the elected branches’ ability to address …

2022年12月12日 · In May 2020, some 230 years after its founding, the Supreme Court implemented the most radical transparency measure in its history. As the Court shifted to an …