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 ...

There are currently 51 federal judicial vacancies without a nominee. Of these, 7 are district court judgeships where Democratic senators can veto a nominee under the blue slip policy observed by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guantánamo Bay has been synonymous with indefinite detention and torture for decades. The Migrant Operations Center is a small facility where the government warehouses asylum seekers and refugees ...

For nearly all of this country’s 250-year-old history, courts deciding whether a gun law was constitutional were able to consider how much of an impact the law had on a person’s ability to exercise ...

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 ...