Matt Ford

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.

The two justices’ recent defenses of the Supreme Court against charges of ideological hackery are impossible to believe.

Their arguments against Biden’s vaccine mandate are selfish, amoral, and rooted in an ignorance of American history.

After the Supreme Court refused to block the new law, Attorney General Merrick Garland sued the state on constitutional grounds.

Officials from the island territory contend that Congress overstepped its bounds by ending the sport.

In the dead of night, the Supreme Court’s conservatives erased abortion rights in Texas—and signaled what they would do next.

Anti-abortion forces in Texas seem supremely confident that the Roberts court will be willing to administer the killing blow to reproductive rights in America.

Section 1326, which has been applied to tens of thousands of cases, is irrevocably rooted in racial animus, says Judge Miranda Du.

The Supreme Court will take up a case that bundles concerns over qualified immunity with a consequential First Amendment dispute.

Go west, media outlets: The lack of geographical perspective is damaging coverage of matters ranging from national politics to climate change.

It normally takes more than two years to get a refugee out of the country. The president doesn’t have that kind of time.