Matt Ford

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Judge David Carter said the former president and his lawyer, John Eastman, “more likely than not” committed federal crimes for their part in the January 6 insurrection.

The only person who can put things right is her husband, Clarence, and that’s about as likely as him voting to uphold Roe.

The former Manhattan prosecutor watched the former president wriggle out of trouble, and he wants everyone to know.

Republican senators haven’t been shy about wanting to roll back the clock for women, LGBTQ people, and Black Americans.

Their Republican colleagues seemed loath to join in during the first day of the Supreme Court nominee’s confirmation hearings.

All this shouting about clocks is actually another pitched battle over the primacy of automobiles in our politics.

Real-time audio broadcasts of oral arguments have been a tremendous boon to our civic life and should be made permanent.

The party has made a habit of “judge-shopping” in the Northern District of Texas, and there’s no mystery why.

Spurred on by the Supreme Court’s tacit approval of the Lone Star State’s controversial abortion law, right-wing lawmakers are dreaming up even more extreme variations.

A radical reimagining of the Constitution, dismissed by legal scholars as “rubbish,” may have found a receptive audience in the Supreme Court.

Ordinary Russians are not the enemy, and treating them as such is playing into Putin’s hands.

A new filing from the January 6 Commission details the how Mike Pence was pressured to overturn the election—and provides the basis for possible criminal charges.

The Roberts court is taking up cases with phantasmal litigants and speculative complaints. But how it resolves them could have a massive impact on American life.

The judge will be the first Black woman nominated to the high court, as well as the first federal public defender.

A group of North Carolina voters have employed a Reconstruction-era law to try to boot the controversial lawmaker from office.

By taking a flier on a plaintiff whose First Amendment rights have only been hypothetically violated, the high court may avoid having to consider the rights of those who might face anti-gay discrimination.

The GOP is increasingly backing the use of violent rhetoric against school and election officials.

The high court’s next justice won’t be on the winning side of many major cases. But even in defeat, she might sow the seeds for future victories.

The not-funny names that lawmakers invent to sell their policy ideas are evidence of a legislative body in deep decline.

Throughout his career, the former president has always behaved as if he had something to hide.