Matt Ford

A plain reading of the Constitution refutes Trump’s claims about the Fourteenth Amendment, but a new legal movement is doing what it can to muddy the waters.

Chief Justice John Roberts has now overseen 20 years of increasingly illiberal rulings by the Supreme Court.

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era jurisprudence.

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.

A pair of minor league clubs are asking the court to reverse the league’s lucrative 101-year-old antitrust exemption.

The conservative justice is on course for an originalist fight with Neil Gorsuch.

A trio of American Samoan plaintiffs are asking the high court to end their status as second-class citizens.

Those who claim that vaccine resistance is an expression of liberty are historically illiterate.

We say we’re for it. We’ve never truly had it. These next few years will determine its fate.

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

The Texas senator claims to be moved by the spirit of 1876, but he’s just another huckster playing a risky game with democracy.

When the white-supremacist group terrorized the South during Reconstruction, many people denied that it even existed.

A century ago, the commonwealth's leaders weren't circumspect about their motives.