Matt Ford

@fordm

Trump and his diehards aside, many of those who wanted the court to leave the former president on the ballot still think the justices managed to screw it up.

The justices unanimously ignored the plain text of the Fourteenth Amendment to keep Trump on the Colorado ballot—but some of them ignored their oaths as well.

While the justices may ultimately rule against the former president, they’ve just handed him the legal victory he craved.

Two years after the high court’s ruling in Bruen, we now live in a world with a constitutional expectation that any firearm is a legal firearm.

In leveling defamation charges against Business Insider, the hedge funder has only proven how important it is for the press to have robust protections from people like him.

The state's embrace of fetal personhood has had terrible, if unintended, consequences that will kill many families' dreams of having children.

A handful of corporations with notoriously bad labor practices are hoping to convince the Supreme Court to gut the National Labor Relations Board.

The takedown of the GOP’s pet informant has been an extremely satisfying spectacle to watch. But it won’t chasten Trump’s minions in the least.

Worried that voters might choose to enshrine abortion rights, GOP lawmakers are trying to deform the constitutional amendment process.

An anonymous cop believes civil rights organizer DeRay Mckesson is liable for injuries suffered in a 2016 Black Lives Matter demonstration—but at least one conservative judge isn’t buying it.

The justices spent Thursday’s oral arguments looking for an off-ramp from kicking the former president out of the presidential race.

A three-judge panel just handed the former president his most comprehensive legal defeat yet.

The most pivotal matter before the high court has attracted a flurry of interest from all quarters, all jostling to help the justices decide whether the former president can stand for reelection.

The Supreme Court carved out an exception for the military academies to continue considering race as a factor in admissions. Right-wing activists aim to shut it down.

The sham impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas shows that the GOP now exists solely to please Trump.

The Supreme Court will have a chance to decide whether lawmakers went too far in regulating the industry.

Greg Abbott’s border rhetoric may mostly be an act of political gamesmanship, but he’s treading a very dangerous path.

The recent Texas razor-wire case highlights the way the justices can use the so-called “shadow docket” to resolve disputes while obfuscating their rationale.

Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill this week declaring that the state will enforce federal immigration laws within its own borders. Even the Supreme Court may find that to be a bridge too far.

Critics of the court’s ruling are breezily dismissing the notion there should be any legal accountability for Trump’s actions on January 6.