In today's New York Times, Adam Liptak takes a look at the "mystery of the shrinking docket" -- how the Supreme Court went from reviewing about 150 cases a year in the early 1980s, to just 80 cases a year today. There are lots of theories being tossed around by scholars [...]

Earlier this year,  I actually physically wept when I heard Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. And even though her prognosis has been great, and she's kept up a demanding schedule, I'm sure I'm not the only one thrown into a small panic when they saw that [...]

It's a beautiful Friday afternoon in D.C. and instead of going for a run, or kayaking or even sitting on the front stoop with a beer -- I found myself googling the Supreme Court justices (I'm a loser). And this probably wouldn't have been so interesting, and definitely not made a [...]

In the legal gossip world, (hell, even in the real world), a lot is currently being made of the fact that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has only hired one law clerk so far this term. In SCOTUS speak, this kind of dalliance in hiring help is often interpreted [...]

With a vote of 68-31, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Only Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) did not cast a vote in the confirmation, and 9 Republicans crossed the aisle to vote for Sotomayor. She is the first Hispanic to serve on the [...]

I'll have something more in depth about the All-Star rosters later on today, but for now I just wanted to share an email I received last night from my buddy Mike:

Help set a new record at the All-Star game by voting for Ian Kinsler for the final AL [...]

This morning, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in the Ricci case, otherwise known as the New Haven firefighters case, reversing the lower courts decision. While any decision from the court is noteworthy, this one is especially loaded, primarily because one of the judges reversed by today's decision is Sonia Sotomayor, [...]

While we're waiting for the MLB draft to start later today, David Pinto makes an interesting argument:

Let teams sign whomever they like in a fixed period of time. The Yankees can’t sign everybody. Teams like Washington might be able to sign two or three very good players [...]

Linda Greenhouse is a Pulitzer prize winning reporter who covered the Supreme Court for 30 years for the New York Times. Now a professor at Yale Law School, I spoke with Greenhouse on her take on Justice David Souter's retirement and the future of the Supreme Court. Kate Klonick: You covered Justice Souter [...]

The other day, I listened to Nina Totenberg on NPR reporting on the strip-search case in the Supreme Court. You remember the case: a high-schooler was made to strip to her bra and panties after a classmate implicated her in a drug search. Here's what Totenberg said:

"At this point [...]