Matt Ford

@fordm

The high court’s next justice won’t be on the winning side of many major cases. But even in defeat, she might sow the seeds for future victories.

The not-funny names that lawmakers invent to sell their policy ideas are evidence of a legislative body in deep decline.

Throughout his career, the former president has always behaved as if he had something to hide.

Long before the 6–3 court hands down rulings, the cases it chooses to hear have a tidal effect on the nation’s ideological drift.

Conservatives are suddenly hopping mad that their opponents decided to play the game by the GOP’s rules.

Judge Michelle Childs’s unique background would lend a diversity of experience to the high court. It has also left her vulnerable to critics.

Despite what Republican critics would have you believe, the president’s candidates to replace Breyer are eminently qualified.

Lawrence VanDyke, a controversial appeals court judge, has been trashing his colleagues and delivering nonsensical rants since being elevated to the federal bench two years ago.

The soon-to-retire justice lost his fight to abolish the death penalty. His courage keeps alive the possibility that some future court might yet win.

The Supreme Court justice is retiring in time for the Democrats to replace him with a much younger judge: a Black woman, if Biden keeps his campaign promise.

Conservative legal activists looking to roll back the legal remedies for historical racial discrimination couldn’t ask for a more accommodating high court.

Neil Gorsuch’s recent invocation of the “major questions doctrine” has ominous implications for anyone not keen on watching the government drown in dysfunction.

An investigation uncovered a complicated web of funny numbers at the former president’s family business, but prosecutors face an uphill battle.

A year ago, the president was signaling that he’d break with the old tradition of handing out foreign posts to donors. So much for all that.

The high court struck down OSHA’s testing mandate but left a vaccine requirement for health care workers in place.

Fixing the obscure law that governs the way Electoral College votes are counted won’t save democracy, but it could keep things from getting much worse.

The typically circumspect attorney general used the January 6 anniversary to reassure his doubters that he is pursuing the Capitol riot perpetrators with zeal.

The chief justice’s veiled end-of-year remarks seem to indicate that if the high court cannot reform itself, reform will be forced upon it.

The country we’ll reside in at the start of 2022 will look very different in 365 days’ time.

Nancy Pelosi believes that lawmakers should be allowed to participate in the “free market economy.” Well, they are “free” to leave office then!