Matt Ford

@fordm

In allowing the government to kill a man amid a pandemic, the court's conservatives have declared their fealty to the death penalty.

Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence confirms his place atop a pantheon of ignominy.

Today's decisions may not provide the deus ex machina that brings down Trump, but they slam the brakes on runaway executive power.

There doesn’t seem to be much faith in the peaceful transition of power, if the burgeoning canon of postelection pulp horror is any guide.

If the Supreme Court no longer believes the lie that’s sustained this hastily concocted relic from our nation’s founding, why should anyone?

The justice’s dissent in a little-regarded case strikes an important blow against the right’s efforts to decimate the federal government.

The chief justice threads a judicial needle and hands the conservative legal movement another disappointing ruling.

There’s a lot you don’t know about what the cops on your streets are doing—and they aim to keep it that way.

The high court’s low profile on social media is a mistake—and a missed opportunity.

The head of the Department of Justice is suddenly struggling to be an effective election-year consigliere for President Trump.

The Supreme Court grants a reprieve to hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants. Their fate will now be decided in the November election.

In a conflict between charmless monsters, the former national security adviser belatedly draws down on President Trump.

The conservative justice’s ruling in favor of gay, queer, and transgender workers shows the limits of the right’s Faustian bargain on judges.

The proposed legislation does little to reform the federal law enforcement agencies that have flooded the capital in recent weeks.

Trump’s attorney general sees himself as a grand cultural inquisitor.

With the Justice Department in full collapse, the presumptive nominee could spark a timely discussion about its future leadership.

Law enforcement agencies have become the standing armies that the Founders feared.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, and the president has bunkered down.

The derangements of our current era could threaten the rock-solid legal precedents that provide states with the right to act in the interests of public health.

Democrats may soon discover that their most important accomplishment in the last election wasn’t retaking the House of Representatives.