Matt Ford

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Senate Democrats tried to play gotcha with the Supreme Court nominee's White House records, with mixed results.

The Supreme Court nominee didn't declare his position on Roe v. Wade, but his comments Wednesday hinted at how he might rule on the issue.

Democrats didn't hold back on the Supreme Court nominee and his Republican defenders, but their end game is less assured.

We asked legal scholars that question about the Supreme Court nominee.

What can the Senate do if Trump fires the attorney general? The Nixon era provides a roadmap.

Andrew Gillum wants to fix his state's broken carceral system. He's not alone among Democratic nominees for governor.

Is New York’s governor abusing his powers to fight the gun lobby?

The Massachusetts senator has a big plan to clean up Washington, but the Supreme Court has proven hostile to anti-corruption laws.

The president and Rudy Giuliani have made clear that he might pardon his former campaign chairman, who has yet to "flip" for Robert Mueller.

Donald Trump is now implicated in criminal wrongdoing. But how will it end?

The legal trouble surrounding him just got a lot closer.

Trump's former campaign chairman was convicted of tax and bank fraud.

President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court should be sailing through the Senate. Instead, his situation is only getting worse.

The Supreme Court nominee isn't going to weigh in on Roe v. Wade. But he might find it harder to evade inquiries into his past.

If special counsel Robert Mueller indicts the former Trump adviser, it could mark a turning point in the Russia investigation.

The alt-right and other ethno-nationalist groups are falling apart, but their ideas are still in power.

The vice president's decades-old argument for impeaching an immoral president is more nuanced than it seems.

The evidence against Trump is already damning. So why set such a high bar for Robert Mueller's investigation?

The president's lawyer is dominating news coverage of the Russia investigation. Here's what to pay attention to instead.

How should the United States compensate the parents and children harmed by the Trump administration's family-separation policy?