Matt Ford

The justices have largely let the president take a wrecking ball to the civil service, but they finally found an agency they deem too sacred for him to desecrate.

The high court ruled that gun restrictions must pass a “history and tradition” test to be valid. Then the state of Hawaii called its bluff.

The White House’s top policy aide hates a future that doesn’t center around him.

The public is coming around to the notion that the agency has to be eliminated. Fortunately, this administration and its Supreme Court allies have made that incredibly easy.

During oral arguments on Tuesday, the conservative justices only seemed to diverge over how far their ruling should go.

The Trump Doctrine is the sort of reckless misadventure that paves the road to ruin—as our own history has proven.

The president has used the right-wing bloc’s extreme solicitousness to facilitate new heights of corruption. But there may be lines that the high court won’t cross.

Her promise to restore integrity to the agency was one she broke on day one.

As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it all down.

Trump appointee Amul Thapar unleashed an appalling judicial broadside against the constitutional rights of noncitizens that amounts to a wholesale negation of our judicial history.

Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.

Republicans are looking to the justices to remove a key campaign finance restriction. Most of the court’s right-wing majority doesn’t seem to want to play along.

The Roberts court is about to hand the president—and an untold number of financial predators—a massive win.

As a passel of MAGA sycophants move into the Defense Department’s press room, The New York Times has filed a First Amendment suit.

The wholesale retailer has devised a clever legal argument against the president’s big tariff scam.

The administration has gone to strained lengths to install loyal allies in key judicial roles. Things haven’t gone according to plan.

Count Judge Jerry Smith’s professional demeanor as one more casualty in the battle to redistrict the Lone Star State to Donald Trump’s liking.

The administration’s effort to take revenge against the former FBI Director is on the verge of collapse thanks to the Justice Department’s stunning missteps.

The emerging mosaic of elite scandal tells an unflattering story of how far we’ve allowed our republic to stray from its founding ideals.

The justice has famously endeavored to do right by Native Americans and restore their place in the constitutional order. Here’s how that work is going.