Matt Ford

@fordm

An impenetrable web of statistics is being used to deflect criticisms and reshape the media narrative around policing.

A fishing dispute with the federal government is raising deeper questions about the island territory’s legal and constitutional status.

Party leaders, taking their cues from Donald Trump, are trying to shove the violence he instigated into the memory hole.

His recent ruling shreds a precedent that offered criminal defendants a chance to challenge unjust sentences—and reveals how the court’s conservative bloc has no boundaries.

The Supreme Court’s most recent additions, like their conservative brethren, are no friends to abortion rights.

Democrats can end the insane tradition of holding the global economy hostage now and forever.

We say we’re for it. We’ve never truly had it. These next few years will determine its fate.

The key vote of the Senate might have a way to preserve voting rights from the GOP’s assaults and John Roberts’ legal opinions.

The failed former Chicago mayor will be shipped off to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Japan, for some reason.

Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney are discovering that there’s no room in the GOP for anyone who acknowledges that Biden beat Trump fair and square.

“I’m going to charge them with whatever felonies I can to take away their ability to vote.”

Fox News’s prime-time star has long been a dull racist. Why is the mainstream media only realizing it now?

Federal agents searched his home and seized documents, as Biden’s Justice Department charges ahead with a long-overdue investigation.

After a decade of silence on the Second Amendment, the justices are taking up a New York concealed-carry case. The ruling could bring seismic changes to America.

Biden’s attorney general is neither an ideologue nor a partisan, but a consensus-builder. How will he wield his power in this historic, politically charged moment?

The high court’s irreconcilable conflict over the sentencing of young criminals is a product of the mess the former justice left behind.

The attorney general has initiated a larger probe of Derek Chauvin’s colleagues, but there’s no quick fix for a broken system.

The GOP is not “the party of Lincoln.” It’s the party of nativist cranks like Marjorie Taylor Greene and their obsessions with “Anglo-Saxon political traditions.”

A bill to expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices seems motivated by political revenge, not sensible judicial reform.

Does the First Amendment confer a right never to face public criticism? No, but the high court may be forced to settle the matter anew.