Matt Ford

The right-wing legal movement’s latest dangerous idea is “independent state legislature theory,” and the high court’s conservative bloc just might dream it into existence.

The DOJ is suing the state of Idaho over its recently passed ban.

He won’t rest until the Supreme Court enshrines religious freedom protections for a select minority of Americans—at the expense of everyone else.

The lawsuit is the latest chapter in the GOP’s legal war on LGBTQ rights.

The Hollywood-friendly church says its “religious arbitration” system—rather than civil courts—should apply to ex-members who say they were sexually assaulted by actor Danny Masterson. It hopes the Supreme Court agrees.

These are the exact same arguments that right-wingers used to attack abortion rights.

New documents reveal three useful insights into how Trump and his allies approach political power and the law.

The vote on the Respect for Marriage Act was good policy, and good politics.

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.