The Supreme Court greenlit a Republican plan to gerrymander Black people out of political power. It backfired.

The party already blew one chance to build support for meaningful Supreme Court reform. It cannot afford to make the same ...

Now, the Supreme Court may change that. On Tuesday, the court heard oral argument in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, a case ...

Earlier this week, The New York Times published a splashy feature detailing how allies of Mary Peltola, the Democratic ...

The Republican leadership of the House Judiciary Committee published a joint letter last Thursday regarding their “concerns” ...

This article was published in partnership with Slate. In an unsigned order on Wednesday, the Supreme Court denied the Trump administration’s request for permission to implement what is, even by the ...

This story was published in partnership with Slate. In 2022, college sports fan Michael Salazar became a digital subscriber to 247Sports.com, a website that shares news about NCAA football and ...

If you enjoy this post, please consider supporting the work of Balls & Strikes with a monthly or annual subscription. Click here to learn more and sign up. Earlier this month, Justice Samuel Alito ...

Chief Justice John Marshall wrote in Marbury v. Madison that the United States was “a government of laws, and not of men.” Among many other things, this means that the government must provide “genuine ...

This article was published in partnership with Slate. Earlier this month, SCOTUSblog hosted its annual Supreme Court “summit” in Washington, D.C. For nearly a quarter-century, SCOTUSblog has been the ...

For months, President Donald Trump has been coping with his myriad failures and plummeting approval ratings by trying to make it harder for people to vote his party out of power in the 2026 midterms.

With the 2026 midterm elections approaching and control of the Senate uncertain, President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are racing to confirm as many life-tenured federal judges as possible.