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 ...

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

What’s the conservative case for fetal personhood? Basically, that the courts’ interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment has been wrong and crabbed for a long time. In an amicus brief in Dobbs, ...

In recent weeks, federal judges across the country have blocked several of President Donald Trump’s more ambitious attempts to treat following the law as optional. Elon Musk, who is leading the ...

Among the more distressing moments during oral argument in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a Supreme Court case challenging a Maryland school district’s use of children’s books with LGBTQ characters, came when ...

First, Project 2025 namechecks Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the 2022 decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Dobbs gets treated as turning every uterus in the nation’s borders into a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...