Matt Ford

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.

The chief justice insists he and his colleagues are not political actors, but can’t explain what an overtly politicized right-wing court would do differently from the one he leads.

The Supreme Court’s recent gerrymandering ruling has touched off an instantaneous demolition of Black political power as state lawmakers roll back the Second Reconstruction.

The president wants to permanently honor 250 Americans with statues near the National Mall. The list is not as controversial as you’d expect, but there are some weird inclusions.

If U.S. electoral politics is going to survive the high court’s attack on equal rights, the game will have to change.

The conservative bloc has dismantled the law that ensures that Black Americans can fully participate in American electoral politics.

While the push is another example of the administration’s anti-immigrant animus, it does not have a free hand to kick masses of naturalized citizens out of the country.

The administration’s vindictive targeting of the Southern Poverty Law Center is yet another mask-off moment.

The leaked memos from a 2016 EPA case expose the spurious reasoning behind one of the justices’ most consequential decisions of the past decade.

In his recent broadside against the twentieth century, the justice is as ill informed as he is mean-spirited.

There’s nothing more central to fascist authoritarianism than being proud of being a grievance-fueled failure.

The president won’t increase the conservative bloc’s margins, but he could more deeply entrench the high court’s Trumpist bent.

The president is on the verge of courting the severest possible legal punishments for himself and his enablers.

At oral arguments this week, a few questions from the justices ought to remind observers that it’s possible to rule against Trump while inviting other sorts of legislative or legal challenges to the policy.

A clear majority of the Supreme Court on Wednesday was unimpressed by the president’s attempt to reinterpret the Constitution.

Trump is turning the country into a huckster’s paradise. The next Democratic president will need to clean house.

The recent oral arguments in an important voting rights case suggest that the right wing of the high court has a suspect media diet.

The high court’s campaign to provide cover to the quid pro quo arrangement of corrupt politicians seems set to continue.

The president and his allies will face impeachments, lawsuits, and maybe even The Hague.