Matt Ford

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The onetime Trump lawyer lost his defamation case against the cable news network, but the ruling nonetheless took aim at a long-standing legal precedent that protects press freedom.

The Manhattan district attorney laid out 34 charges of falsifying documents against the former president, but if the past is any guide, there are pitfalls ahead.

Trump’s imminent arraignment has spawned a wide and reckless array of legal hot takes.

Texas Judge Reed O’Connor’s long-running judicial vaudeville act is back for another season.

The high court will decide if free speech rights extend to inducing illegal immigration.

The Chinese social media app has a powerful ally in its fight against the political establishment: The First Amendment.

Ron DeSantis and the Republican legislature want to make it easier to sue journalists. But right-wing outlets will be the ripest targets if defamation laws are loosened.

The high court’s most unusual case of the current term will determine if our trademark laws are all bark and no bite.

If the former president needs a legal bailout, his pal from South Carolina knows where he might be able to get one.

In oral arguments Monday, the conservative justice seemed like she might actually side with the liberals.

The overturning of Roe has spawned dozens of new fights for reproductive freedom.

A bank run led to a wake-up call for America’s most coddled class of plutocrats.

Why a relatively young legal doctrine has become all the rage among the court’s right-wing majority

The Supreme Court will have to sort through more than 150 years of byzantine rules and regulations to determine the fate—and the future—of a drying West.

Republicans and Democrats are uniting to prove James Madison wrong that the District’s inhabitants “will have had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them.”

Washington’s legal eagles have held that these technical entities are incapable of creating art. At least one chatbot we spoke with agrees.

There are enough justices who seem to oppose the president’s proposal on the merits. That doesn’t mean there are enough votes to strike it down—yet.

The watchdog agency is facing the justices again, but this time its very existence is on the line.

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s idea for America to “separate by red states and blue states” isn’t just dumb and harmless. It’s also a window into a dangerous vision that’s ascendent in the Republican Party.

In the second case in as many days to focus on the platform rights of the biggest Silicon Valley firms, the high court once again seemed hesitant to disrupt the status quo.