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Matt Ford is a staff writer at The New Republic.

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March 28, 2018
Matt Ford
Can the U.S. Supreme Court Stop Gerrymandering?
Waves of redistricting have allowed politicians to select their own voters, consolidating one-party power across America—mostly among the GOP.
March 27, 2018
Matt Ford
Retired Supreme Court justice calls for a repeal of the Second Amendment.
March 23, 2018
Matt Ford
Congress may have just nixed a Supreme Court case on digital privacy.
March 22, 2018
Matt Ford
Footage of the fatal self-driving Uber crash raises new questions about legal liability.
March 22, 2018
Matt Ford
The Worst Job in Washington
Why can't Trump attract any of the nation's top lawyers?
March 22, 2018
Matt Ford
Body-cam footage shows Sacramento police killing an unarmed black man.
March 21, 2018
Matt Ford
The Trump Administration’s Death Penalty Daydream
The president has called for capital punishment of drug dealers. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is trying to make that happen.
March 20, 2018
Matt Ford
Stormy Daniels’s polygraph test doesn’t reveal anything.
March 20, 2018
Matt Ford
Trump can be personally sued in state court while he’s president.
March 20, 2018
Matt Ford
A Self-Driving Uber Killed a Woman. Whose Fault Is It?
The fatality in Tempe, Arizona, took place in a regulatory vacuum.
March 19, 2018
Matt Ford
Trump Isn’t an Army of One
How Republicans are enabling the president's assault on the Russia investigation
March 16, 2018
Matt Ford
Can drug dealers really be executed?
March 15, 2018
Matt Ford
Why Mueller is subpoenaing the Trump Organization (because of course he is).
March 15, 2018
Matt Ford
The Grisly Murder Case That Could Turn Half of Oklahoma Back Into Tribal Lands
Did Congress fail to legally abolish the Muscogee Creek Nation's reservation? The Supreme Court may have to answer that question.
March 13, 2018
Matt Ford
More than two dozen criminal cases have been dropped because a police officer beat a jaywalker.
March 13, 2018
Matt Ford
Can the NRA Defeat Florida’s Gun Law?
The organization says it's unconstitutional to prohibit people under 21 from buying guns, but the courts have consistently upheld age restrictions.
March 12, 2018
Matt Ford
The Case Against Jaywalking Laws
They're enforced disproportionately against black Americans, sometimes with fatal results.
March 9, 2018
Matt Ford
Republicans are wishcasting Justice Kennedy’s retirement again.
March 9, 2018
Matt Ford
Trump can’t do much about violent video games, thanks to Antonin Scalia.
March 7, 2018
Matt Ford
Jeff Sessions’s Wrongheaded War on California
The U.S. attorney general is suing the "lawless" state over its immigration laws, but his legal case is unconvincing.

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