Matt Ford

@fordm

The high court will decide whether the First Amendment prevents elected bodies from disciplining their own members.

The court’s conservative majority will likely soon scuttle abortion rights, but they don’t seem inclined to let S.B. 8 be the means of destruction.

“When do we get to use the guns?” is the inevitable result of a constant flood of surreal conspiracies and opportunistic lies.

Bipartisan redistricting commissions have failed to deliver the fair maps their proponents promised.

What will be left of abortion rights after the next few months of consequential cases is anybody’s guess.

Congressman Adam Schiff wants the Justice Department to pursue prosecutions with a fervor that the attorney general has never possessed.

He now claims to be deeply committed to preserving the balance between the presidency and the branch of government he incited a riot against.

The draft report, while long on critiques of court-packing, failed to address the root of the high court’s predicament—the confirmation process itself.

The former president is selling off the D.C. hotel that served as the brightest star in his universe of scams.

The Claremont Institute tried to respond to critics of faculty member John Eastman and fell flat on its face.

The French showed this week why the U.S. Congress needs to launch a commission on clergy sexual abuse of minors.

The Roberts court may have no choice but to resolve a sprawling case that threatens the Indian Child Welfare Act and the legal regime that has supported Native people.

Republicans in state legislatures all across the country are slowly gaming the system to deprive voters of their power.

Two liberal interest groups—the ACLU and a coalition of public defenders—have waded into the high court’s upcoming concealed-carry decision, but on opposite sides.

The public’s esteem of the high court is at an all-time low, and the media is not to blame.

Mike Pence wouldn’t agree to carry out John Eastman’s plan to overturn the election. Next time we might not be so fortunate.

Once reliably Republican, the state has suddenly become a laboratory of progressive experimentation.

After a doctor revealed in The Washington Post that he had broken the law, two disgraced, out-of-state lawyers filed equally bizarre lawsuits against him.

Religious exemptions from getting inoculated are coming to a federal court near you.

Ohio’s new district maps were supposed to be more democratic. Instead, they point to the possibility that democracy is broken.