Matt Ford

@fordm

In a just world, Democrats would be able to oust Manchin from the party leadership role, as happened to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

After a 10-year-old rape victim who had to travel out of state for an abortion made the news, the right have spent their time denying and deflecting the story.

The Roberts court is showing a troubling propensity to be the willing dupe of plaintiffs with the right kind of tale to tell.

Claims that Justice Brett Kavanaugh had his rights violated by protesters outside a D.C. restaurant fail on originalist grounds.

While the eyebrow-raising audits of James Comey and Andrew McCabe may not end up being scandalous, they do present a big opportunity.

As more and more judges engineer their own end-of-career successions, the rule of law is starting to warp in dangerous and unsustainable ways.

The justices consistently ruled against plaintiffs who had their constitutional rights violated—and, in some cases, their bodies abused—by police, the Border Patrol, and the CIA.

The justice’s contemptuous denunciations of the majority opinion drew an unusually caustic response from his fellow conservative Brett Kavanaugh.

Did the conservative justices lie about how they felt about Roe v. Wade during their confirmation hearings, or did the senators just foolishly trust what they heard?

In their scathing dissent, the court’s minority write that their fellow justices have abandoned any claim to legitimacy.

The right-wing justice has invited conservatives to challenge these long-established rights in court.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion in Thursday’s ruling on concealed-carry laws suggests that there might not be five votes to go further on the Second Amendment.

The high court’s drive to radically redefine our Constitutional rights continues apace.

The court’s conservatives seem eager to take apart the mechanics of liberal governance, but they’re having commitment issues.

A bipartisan bill providing enhanced security for Supreme Court justices and their families marks the end of an era when they could move about Washington with relative anonymity.

Built-in dysfunction is the only reason the vast majority of Americans cannot exert their will to limit the everyday carnage of mass shootings.

What recourse do ordinary citizens have when federal agents violate their rights? After Wednesday, not much.

As public hearings approach, it’s worth remembering what this commission should be trying to accomplish—and what it shouldn’t.

The United States of America will be a vastly different country by the end of the month.

A shadow-docket decision spared Facebook and Twitter from a Texas law that would have prevented them from moderating their platforms.