Matt Ford

The president’s gluttony for graft is the only truly remarkable thing about his political career.

Much of what ails us can be blamed on the steady degradation of the legislature as the other branches of government grabbed power for themselves. It’s time to start undoing the damage.

The industry scored a major victory over one state’s efforts to regulate firms that critics worry will become a hotbed of insider trading.

The justice recently contended against the notion that the court has become a rubber stamp for Trump. She’s not wrong—but that’s just part of the story.

One man’s heroic actions in the face of a dangerous refinery fire left him with PTSD. A Southern federal court has opted to leave workers like him behind.

These are the ingredients that have set up a major Supreme Court case about excessive fines that could shape the future of criminal asset forfeiture across the United States.

This new trend of lawmakers going absent for an extended period of time, leaving their constituents in the dark about their health and well-being, is both untenable and intolerable.

Marco Rubio says the administration will try to “dismantle” the ICC. Who is he trying to protect?

In ruling after ruling, the Supreme Court justice has penned separate opinions to push for an expansion of executive power beyond what his conservative colleagues support.

His 10-page opinion is strangely adrift from rhyme or reason, and it ends up reinforcing a far more extreme position than any of his colleagues’.

The ruling was ultimately a victory for the Fourteenth Amendment and a loss for the conservative legal movement that’s been trying to erase it.

Split rulings in two presidential appointment cases allowed John Roberts to have his cake and eat it too. The rest of us will pay the price.

The conservative bloc’s only consistent practice is its inconsistent application of its own “history-and-tradition” test.

Samuel Alito led the majority on a despicable, precedent-shredding misadventure so that they could whitewash the president’s calumnies and expel the refugees he hates.

A pair of less heralded decisions shine a bright light on the Roberts court’s appetite for constitutional destruction.

An upcoming case in the high court’s next term may determine whether people in federal custody can seek legal remedy for violations of their constitutional rights.

The latest Second Amendment case is just the latest to highlight the chaos wrought by the high court’s new “history and tradition” test.

Florida’s use of six-person juries is heavily at odds with our legal traditions—and on a collision course with a hostile high court.

A shadow docket reveals that for some justices, there are limits to how cruel an execution can be. And for others, there are none.

Brendan Sorsby may have violated the league’s rules, but college football’s governing body is discovering just how unsustainable the organization’s legal status really is.