Matt Ford

A new op-ed from a pair of conservative legal experts only raises unflattering questions about the direction of the right's juridical scholarship.

The mogul seems bent on pushing the Trump White House into a nuclear confrontation with the federal judiciary. He has the chief justice to thank.

The once-independent agency has been forced to embrace a change of mission—serve the president’s exclusive interests, and carry out his revenge on the American people.

Republicans have been winning an asymmetric war over district lines for decades. To preserve democracy, their opponents will have to fight back.

The tech oligarch has unleashed his slow-rolling coup d’état across the federal government, and it’s not clear anything can prevent a total takeover.

The White House is effectively declaring war on federalism by claiming unconstitutional jurisdictional power—and daring the judiciary to stop it.

His funding freeze play was supposed to be part of a well-planned, shock-and-awe takeover. The slapdash result suggests that the minds behind MAGA 2.0 are still a slopcore mess.

Part church-versus-state conflict, part jurisdictional turf war, this Sooner State charter school fracas is one of the knottiest cases the high court has had to resolve in some time.

Asked to defend the president’s executive order, the Justice Department has marshaled some flimsy arguments.

The president is nobody’s idea of a technology expert, but thanks to his crypto broligarch pals, he has leveled up his grift.

The president’s latest salvo against the Constitution shouldn’t survive the judiciary’s scrutiny. But these days, you never know.

The president-elect’s first term was a circus of self-dealing and plutocratic capture. His second term may end up making that look like an innocent era.

As the justices mull getting back into the business of strictly scrutinizing smut, their forebears offer some good reasons why they should not.

The notorious Reed O’Connor is back with another one of his patented-troll decisions, this time threatening to upend the world of socially conscious investing.

The Supreme Court declined the opportunity to halt the president-elect’s sentencing in a New York state court—at least for now.

The Roberts court used a novel doctrine to blunt or undo many of Biden’s policy initiatives. But the president-elect was left curiously untroubled by this de facto judicial veto during his last term.

The case is a harbinger of intrastate conflict to come, as red-state attorneys general ramp up their campaigns against blue-state governance.

We can all agree that Supreme Court justices shouldn’t face threats of physical violence. But only in the chief justice’s warped, cloistered world does criticism of the high court constitute intimidation.

The two major techbro obsessions—crypto and AI—have delivered mostly scams and hype. But this year, they managed to buy themselves a federal government.

When the president-elect says he wants to revive “impoundments,” he’s really talking about a vast expansion of his autocratic vision.