
The Docket Is the Real Election
Campaigns are argued in speeches and settled in filings. The cases already scheduled will shape the next decade more than the next cycle will.
Courts, dockets, and the rules that outlast the people who wrote them.

Campaigns are argued in speeches and settled in filings. The cases already scheduled will shape the next decade more than the next cycle will.

The trial is the constitutional centerpiece and a statistical rarity. Almost every case is resolved by negotiation instead.