Matt Ford

@fordm

Recent reporting suggests that lawmakers across the country are ending a long-standing legal protection for police officers, but that isn’t quite true.

A California law bans state-funded travel to anti-LGBT states. Texas is asking the Supreme Court to rule the law unconstitutional.

The Justice Department is reportedly investigating whether the Florida congressman had sex with an underage girl. He’s responded with strange, self-contradictory claims.

The justices agreed to hear a Kentucky case that will be the first related to abortion since Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation.

What began as a minor domestic dispute is now a legal time bomb that could grant cops expanded search and seizure rights.

The GOP has shown no interest in bipartisanship, but it’s also not landing any political or culture-war punches.

They can pick up a vital seat in Iowa and get tarred as hypocrites, or honor the sanctity of an election and hurt their majority.

Fueled by the desire to suppress the vote and find end runs around the popular will, Republicans across the country are working to deform the state judiciary.

He warned of a “scorched-earth Senate” if Democrats kill the filibuster. But that future is already here—thanks largely to him.

The Carter-Baker report was intended to strengthen Americans’ trust in the electoral process. Today, it’s become a favorite weapon for right-wing attacks on voting rights.

The former vice president reemerges from a brief hiatus in the throes of Stockholm Syndrome.

Conservatives are only getting more bold in their efforts to disenfranchise Democrats.

Why are residents of the island commonwealth denied certain federal benefits that are given to U.S. citizens nearly everywhere else? The justices have decided to take up that question.

The pandemic’s ravages caused havoc with our decennial head count. Our elections will be the first to pay the price.

The Arizona senator is almost single-handedly keeping Democrats from wielding their majority power—and the party may well lose that power as a result.

The company’s lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell have laid bare the cynical scam at the heart of conservative media.

America wasn’t ready for the pandemic. Reckoning with those mistakes is the only way it won’t be worse the next time.

The justices are hearing a new challenge involving the landmark 1965 law—and the Roberts Court is even more conservative than last time.

His postpresidency will be an exhausting and expensive parade of legal battles.

The former president’s lawyers rested their case in the Senate impeachment trial with a simple, ridiculous claim: He’s the real victim here.