The district courts, in contrast, showed their work. In Shilling v. United States, for instance, Judge Benjamin Settle published a 65-page opinion explaining why he was barring the Trump ...

Katie Wood, 26, teaches 10th-grade algebra at her hometown high school, about a half-hour south of Tampa. She is also a transgender woman. On her first day teaching in August 2021, she wrote “Ms. Wood ...

The Court’s opinion in CASA presents class actions as a workable alternative to nationwide injunctions, which will be surprising to anyone with a passing familiarity with the Court’s hostility to ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Trump v. CASA, a case that is both generally about the authority of courts to rein in executive lawlessness, and also specifically about the ...

Madiba K. Dennie is the Deputy Editor and Senior Contributor at Balls & Strikes, and author of The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take it Back. Her ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has historically been among the nation’s most conservative federal appeals courts. This is particularly true where abortion is concerned: Well before President ...

The sanitation crisis in Lowndes County and the Trump administration’s decision to perpetuate that crisis suggest that is not the government Americans have. Consigning Black people to live in filth is ...

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Mahmoud v. Taylor, the conservative legal movement’s most ambitious attempt yet to refashion this country’s 250-year-old history of ...

Democrats hold a 51-49 majority in the Senate, which means that they don’t need Cortez Masto’s vote to confirm Mangi if the rest of the caucus holds together. (In the event of a 50-50 tie, Vice ...

Against all odds, the “monsters” to whom Trump refers are not Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, but the federal district court judges who have ruled against the administration 26 times this month alone.

This interactive map shows which party's nominees control the federal courts of appeals, along with demographic information about judges in each circuit.