Matt Ford

@fordm

Trump's interim attorney general will now oversee Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, which he has repeatedly criticized.

What if Trump wins re-election by razor-thin margins in states where Republicans have made it harder to cast a ballot?

Trump's attorney general was forced out over the Russia investigation, but he should be remembered for the damage he did to people's lives.

Capital punishment is losing support in the United States, but what about on the Supreme Court?

Thanks to a 2013 ruling, Southern states are free to pass restrictive laws without government scrutiny.

The president insists that he, not the Constitution, determines who is an American.

When the Ku Klux Klan terrorized the South during Reconstruction, many people denied that the group even existed.

Why is the Democratic senator from Rhode Island so hesitant on full representation for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico?

Whether citizens of all stripes enjoy broad legal protections increasingly depends on where they live.

Trump has seized the federal bench, but there's hope for Democrats in the lower judiciary.

It may not contain bombshells about Trump's potential collusion with Russia, but it can help sustain the public's faith in American democracy.

Republicans are fighting to hold on to secretary of state offices that have become vehicles for purging voter rolls and restricting ballot access.