The first member of the Senate Democratic Caucus to back a Trump nominee does so for the most embarrassing reason imaginable.

The role of a federal judge is now less about applying precedent than it is predicting which precedent the Court will ...

Judges and justices are more powerful today than the framers ever intended. Congress can do something about it.

This term, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used her dissents to reveal an important truth about the Supreme Court.

Articles covering the Supreme Court and the American legal system by Jay Willis, editor-in-chief of Balls & Strikes.

The Ninth Circuit has never had a public defender among the ranks of its judges. It's past time for President Biden to fix that.

The highlights of the résumé of Josh Divine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to a federal district court vacancy in Missouri, are standard-issue conservative legal movement stuff: a clerkship with ...

Three months ago, the president tried to fire three Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members. A tiny problem with his legal theory is that they don’t work for him.

Most people think of voting as a fundamental right. Yet the Supreme Court has never formally recognized the right to vote for president.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is stacked with far-right Trump goons, has gone completely off the rails lately.