Matt Ford

@fordm

A lower court split over bump stocks—a device that enabled the deadliest mass shooting in American history—is sending fresh cases steaming toward the high court.

After burning through attorneys and leaving many legal careers in shambles, the former president is truly scraping the bottom of the lawyer barrel.

Conservatives are locking in an outrageous partisan gerrymander—and locking out nearly half of the state’s voters.

The centrist group dedicated to “problem solving” seems to have decided to start sowing constitutional chaos.

Now that the Supreme Court has upended the labor landscape of amateur sports, the college athletics cartel looks to lawmakers for help.

It really sucks to be a member of Congress on most days. And as the GOP spirals through a second week of not electing a speaker, some are eyeing the exits.

Justices Roberts and Barrett joined the liberals to uphold federal regulations on so-called “ghost guns.”

The Ohioian, who combines an extreme lack of interest in governing with a governing interest in extremism, would be the perfect leader of this lapsed party.

The GOP can’t evade the structural realities that make it so hard to elect a speaker—and which will make it impossible for that new speaker to govern.

What few constitutional rights the homeless enjoy may soon be on the line at the high court.

Joey Gilbert was hired by Douglas County conservative to help foment culture war, and business is booming.

He and his legal team claim the Constitution absolves him of any responsibility for January 6. It does not.

New York City landlords have petitioned the high court to repeal the laws that have benefited the city’s tenants for generations.

If Kevin McCarthy’s successor is going to need future support from across the aisle, it will come with a price tag.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s defenders may have won over some of the Supreme Court’s conservative justices.

Two cases this term might cement a new order of judicial supremacy—and end the idea of a government by “We the People.”

The high court had little to say in the face of the state’s defiance, but that silence spoke volumes.

Puritanical Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk doesn’t like the way everyone interprets the First Amendment.

Even the Supreme Court’s lax bribery standards might not let him off.

A pair of minor league clubs are asking the court to reverse the league’s lucrative 101-year-old antitrust exemption.