Matt Ford

The ruling was ultimately a victory for the Fourteenth Amendment and a loss for the conservative legal movement that’s been trying to erase it.

Split rulings in two presidential appointment cases allowed John Roberts to have his cake and eat it too. The rest of us will pay the price.

The conservative bloc’s only consistent practice is its inconsistent application of its own “history-and-tradition” test.

Samuel Alito led the majority on a despicable, precedent-shredding misadventure so that they could whitewash the president’s calumnies and expel the refugees he hates.

A pair of less heralded decisions shine a bright light on the Roberts court’s appetite for constitutional destruction.

An upcoming case in the high court’s next term may determine whether people in federal custody can seek legal remedy for violations of their constitutional rights.

The latest Second Amendment case is just the latest to highlight the chaos wrought by the high court’s new “history and tradition” test.

Florida’s use of six-person juries is heavily at odds with our legal traditions—and on a collision course with a hostile high court.

A shadow docket reveals that for some justices, there are limits to how cruel an execution can be. And for others, there are none.

Brendan Sorsby may have violated the league’s rules, but college football’s governing body is discovering just how unsustainable the organization’s legal status really is.

The high court will once again wade into a collision between church and state—and choose between two wildly different ideas of religious pluralism.

In a controversial shadow-docket ruling, the high court’s conservative bloc has fully dismantled the constitutional protections of Black voters.

The president may dress himself in the trappings of patriotism and religiosity, but make no mistake: His administration is sinful to its core.

While it’s not a surprise that the high court reached a just conclusion, it’s troubling to see how many justices didn’t join the majority.

His new encyclical pulls no punches in attacking tech billionaires—and the politicians who enable them.

It was a limited victory, but it broke with the high court’s long-standing favor toward the death penalty.

The president has long been operating under the assumption that he is immune from prosecution. His latest scheme, however, may be a step too far.

A recent shadow docket decision suggests that the court isn’t hungry for further legal restrictions on abortion. But there are two familiar holdouts.

Taking another zany plan by the president seriously because he cannot possibly do so.

Despite their handing him an endless array of political wins over the past few years, the president still believes his nominees haven’t shown sufficient loyalty.