Matt Ford

Fixing the obscure law that governs the way Electoral College votes are counted won’t save democracy, but it could keep things from getting much worse.

The typically circumspect attorney general used the January 6 anniversary to reassure his doubters that he is pursuing the Capitol riot perpetrators with zeal.

The chief justice’s veiled end-of-year remarks seem to indicate that if the high court cannot reform itself, reform will be forced upon it.

The country we’ll reside in at the start of 2022 will look very different in 365 days’ time.

Nancy Pelosi believes that lawmakers should be allowed to participate in the “free market economy.” Well, they are “free” to leave office then!

Republicans expecting to win back the House are already planning to abuse their oversight power for ridiculous reasons.

The Trump loyalists who masterminded the first failed attempt to overturn the election are gearing up to try it again.

The high court’s decision in the matter of the Lone Star State’s controversial abortion law seems destined to spawn further chaos.

What sounds like a zany idea dreamt up in an opium den could have dire repercussions for the future of our democracy.

Proponents of the controversial proposal to add justices to the high court will take little solace from the group’s final draft report.

The assault on voting rights advances full bore. These people are fighting back.

A revealing exchange between Fox News host Laura Ingraham and the Texas senator offers a window into the ways the right views the high court.

Wednesday’s oral arguments in a challenge of Mississippi’s abortion law reveal that a majority of justices want to gut abortion rights in America.

This week, the high court will take up the matter of Chevron deference—the judicial doctrine that currently allows the executive branch to function.

The country’s system of national reserves makes zero sense.

The justices changed their approach to oral arguments this term, to the benefit of everyone. But will they return to the dark ages once the pandemic subsides?

The First Amendment watchdogs who stepped up to defend James O’Keefe’s are probably feeling like they got played.

The flagpoles in front of Boston’s City Hall have become the source of a most vexing debate about religious freedom in the public square.

What may appear to be a breakthrough moment for the January 6 commission actually heralds a low-water mark for Congress and its oversight authority.

The Supreme Court’s 6–3 tilt is inspiring right-wing judicial actors to take legal moon shots they wouldn’t have dared to attempt not long ago.