Matt Ford

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The conservative legal movement wants the court to preemptively kill a major liberal policy idea.

The court’s right-wing bloc has lately applied a “history-and-tradition” test to Second Amendment cases—and it might help the younger Biden avoid jail time.

Badger State Republicans’ desire to hold onto power is running afoul of democracy.

Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are defiant, the rest are varying levels of quiet.

Joe Kennedy’s phony tale of religious discrimination may have reached a predictable end this week, but it illuminated an important truth about the Supreme Court.

A burgeoning movement to remove the former president from the ballot in 2024 is forging ahead—with the Supreme Court as its final destination.

The Roberts court made a rare ruling in favor of voting rights back in July, but a later decision may have given state lawmakers a winning hand to play.

Is an 18-wheeler still doing “interstate commerce” if it’s empty? The high court may take a whack at solving this Zen head-scratcher.

The former president will split his time between seeking the Republican nomination and performing his duties as a semiprofessional defendant.

The NCAA’s hold on its lucrative status quo looks more vulnerable than ever, two years after the high court ruled against it.

A judicial doctrine that has denied justice to an untold number of plaintiffs may be founded on a centuries-old scrivener’s error.

The two firms atop the industry are exchanging accusations of anti-competitive practices as the wholesome hobby gets sucked into the antitrust wars.

A conservative judge advanced a new legal theory in the recent mifepristone ruling. But will it prove to be too radical for the high court?

The publisher of the Marion County Record says local law enforcement unleashed “Gestapo tactics” on his organization over the weekend.

A pair of originalist scholars say that Article 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment is alive and well—and capable of ending the former president’s return to the White House.

It's beginning to look as if anti-abortion policies are profoundly unpopular with ordinary Americans.

A federal appeals court ruling could have a massive impact on the future of gun safety in America.

The former president is demanding a change in trial venue, for the same reason he demanded that votes not get counted in certain U.S. cities.

Trump’s defenders have come up with a scorching-hot legal theory—but it’s one that’s easily extinguished.

The last strands of a haggard intellectual tradition have unraveled.