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 ...
In 2023, the renowned Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein announced his retirement, explaining that when the Court is controlled by a six-justice conservative supermajority, there is “very little that ...
There are currently 37 federal judicial vacancies without a nominee. Of these, 35 are district court judgeships where Republican senators can veto a nominee under the blue slip policy observed by the ...
For several brief, glorious days, Senate Democrats were doing the lame-duck session right. As the clock ticked down on the 118th Congress, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took advantage of Republican ...
Back in 2018, in the tense hours after then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified about Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assault of Ford some thirty years earlier, ...
Last week, the Federalist Society’s annual convention gave a who’s who of the conservative legal movement the opportunity to toast their latest successes, like overturning landmark Supreme Court ...