Matt Ford

Generations of lawmakers, straying from the Founders’ ideals—and fears—led inevitably to this era of unaccountable warmongering.

For the court’s conservatives, the only consistency is their inconsistency. Still, things rather conspicuously keep going the GOP’s way.

The president’s take on birthright citizenship doesn’t pass legal muster. To hear the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops tell it, it’s a moral affront as well.

The associate justice’s dissent in the tariffs case deserves some extra attention, because it is hopelessly uncoupled from law, history, and the Constitution.

While Capitol Hill lawmakers and the Supreme Court have failed to curb the administration’s authoritarianism, others are stepping into the breach to protect the Constitution.

It may look like the justices made a clean break with the president, but the mess the conservative bloc made for itself raises some major questions.

If the Supreme Court takes up Taylor v. Singleton, it could be the sum of all fears for the most vulnerable Americans.

The Minneapolis nurse’s death at the hands of federal agents has exposed the contradictions at the center of the gun rights debate.

The justices have largely let the president take a wrecking ball to the civil service, but they finally found an agency they deem too sacred for him to desecrate.

The high court ruled that gun restrictions must pass a “history and tradition” test to be valid. Then the state of Hawaii called its bluff.

The White House’s top policy aide hates a future that doesn’t center around him.

The public is coming around to the notion that the agency has to be eliminated. Fortunately, this administration and its Supreme Court allies have made that incredibly easy.

During oral arguments on Tuesday, the conservative justices only seemed to diverge over how far their ruling should go.

The Trump Doctrine is the sort of reckless misadventure that paves the road to ruin—as our own history has proven.

The president has used the right-wing bloc’s extreme solicitousness to facilitate new heights of corruption. But there may be lines that the high court won’t cross.

Her promise to restore integrity to the agency was one she broke on day one.

As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it all down.

Trump appointee Amul Thapar unleashed an appalling judicial broadside against the constitutional rights of noncitizens that amounts to a wholesale negation of our judicial history.

Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.

Republicans are looking to the justices to remove a key campaign finance restriction. Most of the court’s right-wing majority doesn’t seem to want to play along.