Matt Ford

@fordm

Republican lawmakers have routinely dodged responsibility for the president's misdeeds by playing dumb. That path is no longer available.

The celebrity attorney has spent much of his career defending the interests of scandal-plagued elites—and profiting from it.

Impeachment will be a test of whether the world's greatest deliberative body still exists in a moral universe.

Recent revelations suggest that the depths of the president's crimes won't be fully plumbed by an impeachment trial.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority could use an obscure legal doctrine to permanently kneecap the ability of progressives to govern.

A coalition of conservative political organizations is asking the Supreme Court to weaponize the First Amendment in the service of dark money.

Congress may have no other choice but to redeploy the ultimate check against a rogue president bent on committing atrocities.

The chief justice's year-end report dwells heavily on the preservation of our civic life, without noting his hand in its undoing.

If all our political disputes are destined to be settled by unelected judges, do the people even have a place in our democracy?

House Democrats are contemplating a strategy that will only bolster Republican claims that their impeachment inquiry is an election-year stunt.

*Impeached on Wednesday, December 18, 2019

The president's impeachment-eve epistle to his political opponents should quash the notion that he relishes the fight.

In a year featuring no end of Trumpian rogues, we honor the man who laid the groundwork for a constitutional crisis.

Democrats backed Trump's trade pact on the same day they introduced articles of impeachment. The optics don't matter.

The president and his defenders are ignoring the inspector general's findings and substituting their own.

Trump's allies are trying to reset the standard for "election meddling" so low that it would be hard not to meddle in an election.

House Democrats' report on Tuesday makes the case for protecting American democracy from further blows from the president.

The complexity of investigating Trump, lampooned in a legendary piece of satire, has been rendered moot (and it's not even Sunday).

Republicans who worried that the EU ambassador was going to flip were treated to a gymnastics routine.

With no coherent strategy beyond bare survival, the president's allies wildly pivot between defenses as the day slips away.