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Feb 4, 2025 · 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 courts of appeals is the end of the line, which makes these life-tenured judges some of the most powerful people many Americans have never heard of.

A site for critical, progressive, and bullshit-free commentary about courts, judges, and the legal system they uphold.

Read on to find out who President Biden is nominating to the bench, how the pace of Senate confirmations compares to previous administrations, and how this new cohort of life-tenured judges will shape the federal judiciary in the years to come.

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Feb 6, 2025 · 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 weeks in office, which Feldman analogizes to a “constitutional stress test.” His takeaway is that people feeling alarmed about the ongoing disintegration of the federal government shouldn ...

Sep 17, 2024 · By removing these basic guardrails from the presidency, and by reserving for itself the power to decide when a president can be held accountable, the Republican supermajority effectively claimed the authority to coronate their preferred presidents as kings.

Link to: A Decades-Old Scalia Dissent Is Powering Trump’s War On Labor Rights

Dec 12, 2022 · In May 2020, some 230 years after its founding, the Supreme Court implemented the most radical transparency measure in its history. As the Court shifted to an all-remote oral argument format due to COVID-19, it also began providing live audio of oral argument for anyone who wanted to listen.

Oct 4, 2024 · To promote Lovely One, Jackson stuck with mainstream outlets—the kinds of places where a law student’s non-lawyer parents might learn about the book and buy them a copy as a Christmas gift.She appeared on The View, and CBS Mornings, and The Today Show.She went on NPR’s Fresh Air and PBS Newshour, and sat for interviews with The New York Times and The Washington Post.