Matt Ford

@fordm

An appeals panel led by a Trump appointee is giving the Supreme Court the chance to gut one of the few major provisions remaining in the law.

Judge Sarah Wallace found the case that the former president violated the Fourteenth Amendment compelling. Then she found a way to ignore her own judgment.

For years, the GOP has used imaginary threats to election integrity to impede people from lawfully voting. Goodbye to all that.

The tech industry thought that the legal issues over their shiny new toys were a settled matter. They thought wrong.

Originalism is all the rage on the right, but a gun case at the Supreme Court is exposing its absurdity—even to the conservative justices.

The justices heard a case challenging a federal law restricting guns for domestic abusers—and saw an opportunity to clean up the mess their previous gun ruling has caused.

A lower court split over bump stocks—a device that enabled the deadliest mass shooting in American history—is sending fresh cases steaming toward the high court.

After burning through attorneys and leaving many legal careers in shambles, the former president is truly scraping the bottom of the lawyer barrel.

Conservatives are locking in an outrageous partisan gerrymander—and locking out nearly half of the state’s voters.

The centrist group dedicated to “problem solving” seems to have decided to start sowing constitutional chaos.

Now that the Supreme Court has upended the labor landscape of amateur sports, the college athletics cartel looks to lawmakers for help.

It really sucks to be a member of Congress on most days. And as the GOP spirals through a second week of not electing a speaker, some are eyeing the exits.

Justices Roberts and Barrett joined the liberals to uphold federal regulations on so-called “ghost guns.”

The Ohioian, who combines an extreme lack of interest in governing with a governing interest in extremism, would be the perfect leader of this lapsed party.

The GOP can’t evade the structural realities that make it so hard to elect a speaker—and which will make it impossible for that new speaker to govern.

What few constitutional rights the homeless enjoy may soon be on the line at the high court.

Joey Gilbert was hired by Douglas County conservative to help foment culture war, and business is booming.

He and his legal team claim the Constitution absolves him of any responsibility for January 6. It does not.

New York City landlords have petitioned the high court to repeal the laws that have benefited the city’s tenants for generations.

If Kevin McCarthy’s successor is going to need future support from across the aisle, it will come with a price tag.