Matt Ford

@fordm

The former president's lawyers mounted some bizarre arguments in defense of broad presidential power, and the justices seemed ready to step through the looking glass.

The Fifth Circuit's become little more than a junior varsity version of the Supreme Court. Sending some new judges to the Lone Star State will help put things right.

In oral arguments, the justices seemed highly reluctant to entangle themselves in a matter that many believe subject the neediest Americans to cruel and unusual punishment.

The gradual erosion of society’s barriers to gambling has pushed us to the brink of perpetual big-league betting scandals.

The high court’s decision to leave a controversial lower court decision intact does not necessarily spell doom for First Amendment rights.

Conservatives got their way when the Supreme Court ruled against Trump’s disqualification, but two red-state secretaries of state seem to be bent on retaliation anyway.

Special counsel Jack Smith has made it as easy as possible for the justices to rule against Trump. But we’ve seen this movie before.

The court, which Republicans expanded in 2016 to add two conservative justices, has revived a draconian law from 1864—nearly a half-century before Arizona even became a state.

In an unusual move, the Justice Department is pushing to participate in upcoming oral arguments in the hopes of influencing the high court to pick a less cruel fate for the most vulnerable Americans.

Calls are mounting for the liberal justice to take her leave. Instead, Democrats should focus on winning elections.

A worrisome case of misconduct is on the high court’s doorstep, creating the potential for a rollback of the power that district attorneys have long enjoyed.

For many, Trump’s theatre of cruelty is grand entertainment—so why take the show off the air?

Right-wingers have been boosting their nuttiest cases by filing them in Texas. But judge-shopping is about to get harder.

But they might give anti-abortion activists a whole lot of ideas for what to do next.

The agency’s antitrust suit aims to end the firm’s wide array of anticompetitive practices—and reopen the door to innovation.

The Fifth Circuit’s well-documented judicial shenanigans have earned a surprising rebuke from the high court.

The former president has a long losing streak against the media, but George Stephanopoulos’s rape commentary may have opened the door to his first big victory.

At oral arguments on Monday, the court took a dim view of the heavy-handed way that Andrew Cuomo and the State of New York attempted to crack down on the gun rights group.

Her unexplained disappearance and botched reappearance hint at deeper problems in the British royal family.

The high court’s disqualification ruling has left the guardrails of democracy in worse condition than they were in before.