Matt Ford

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.

Long before the 6–3 court hands down rulings, the cases it chooses to hear have a tidal effect on the nation’s ideological drift.

Conservatives are suddenly hopping mad that their opponents decided to play the game by the GOP’s rules.

Judge Michelle Childs’s unique background would lend a diversity of experience to the high court. It has also left her vulnerable to critics.

Despite what Republican critics would have you believe, the president’s candidates to replace Breyer are eminently qualified.

Lawrence VanDyke, a controversial appeals court judge, has been trashing his colleagues and delivering nonsensical rants since being elevated to the federal bench two years ago.

The soon-to-retire justice lost his fight to abolish the death penalty. His courage keeps alive the possibility that some future court might yet win.

The Supreme Court justice is retiring in time for the Democrats to replace him with a much younger judge: a Black woman, if Biden keeps his campaign promise.

Conservative legal activists looking to roll back the legal remedies for historical racial discrimination couldn’t ask for a more accommodating high court.

Neil Gorsuch’s recent invocation of the “major questions doctrine” has ominous implications for anyone not keen on watching the government drown in dysfunction.

An investigation uncovered a complicated web of funny numbers at the former president’s family business, but prosecutors face an uphill battle.

A year ago, the president was signaling that he’d break with the old tradition of handing out foreign posts to donors. So much for all that.

The high court struck down OSHA’s testing mandate but left a vaccine requirement for health care workers in place.