Matt Ford

The chief justice’s response to the president’s recent rants has been read as a defense of federal judges. But what if it wasn't?

His administration deported more than 100 Venezuelan nationals on shaky, potentially unconstitutional grounds—and then violated a federal judge’s order to turn the flights around.

Legal skirmishes between the administration and lower court judges have highlighted the way the federal court system itself has become a thorn in the president’s side.

The conservative majority wants to apply a “history and tradition” test to the Second Amendment. But whose history—and what traditions—have yet to be decided.

Following a recent and troubling trend, the high court has taken up another case of fanciful claims that could do real harm to gay and trans Americans.

The Supreme Court’s second-newest justice is proving herself to be a non-hack—to the increasing consternation of MAGA.

Two conservative justices joined the three liberals in ordering the administration to pay USAID contractors who are owed around $2 billion. But can that unlikely split hold?

Amy Coney Barrett joined the liberal justices in a dissent against Samuel Alito—and his thinly veiled policy agenda.

The president has made it clear that he’ll bend over backward to benefit the criminal and corrupt—as long as they kiss his ring.

The justices seem amenable to granting relief to a compelling plaintiff’s claims. The only question is whether their ruling will upend workplace discrimination law.

Defendants seeking relief from capital punishment typically don’t win at the high court, but Richard Glossip’s case was a bridge too far—for most of the justices, anyway.

The judicial system has started to rule against the administration’s decimation of the civil service. If only it could actually enforce its rulings.

The Department of Government Efficiency isn’t nearly as efficient as it could be. Here’s what we could do to make it better.

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.