Matt Ford
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 23
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- Sep 25, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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The Magic Words Trump Uses to Legally Justify His Harebrained Schemes (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump appears to think that the phrase “national security” is a get-out-of-court-free card whenever he wants to do (or get away with) something. Thanks to the Supreme Court, one can hardly blame him for drawing this conclusion. Last month, the justices allowed his illegal White House ballroom project to move forward after a lower court had blocked it. Part of the conservative majority’s reasoning was that the executive branch had declared that the project was necessary on nation
The Major Climate Lawsuit Kicking Off the Supreme Court’s Next Term (opens the original)
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Climate lawsuits are increasingly common these days. Republicans have made national efforts to combat climate change effectively impossible in both the legislative and executive branches. Now a growing number of private and public litigants are taking the fossil-fuel industry to court for the harms they have caused. One such case will be the first one heard by the Supreme Court in its upcoming term. It pits a Colorado town that has faced wildfires and droughts against two oil and gas companies t
One of the Best Supreme Court Decisions in Years Is Still Alarming (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump’s plan to kneecap mail-voting practices in November’s midterms ran aground on Monday evening after the Supreme Court blocked the postal system from enforcing it in a 7–2 vote. The court’s short, unsigned order prevents the United States Postal Service or other agencies from enacting last-minute requirements for mail-in ballots under a new rule it issued last month. Under the rule, postal officials would refuse to deliver any ballots to voters unless they were registered in
The Mother of All Assault Weapons Cases Is Coming (opens the original)
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The Second Amendment protects the right to “keep and bear arms.” But what counts as “arms”? The Supreme Court will answer that question this term when it hears a challenge to state assault-weapons bans. Gun rights groups have spent almost two decades trying to get the Supreme Court to hear a case like Viramontes v. Cook County, which centers on assault-weapon bans in Illinois’s largest county and Connecticut. The justices consolidated Viramontes with a near-identical case from the latter state.
The Supreme Court Hits a Limit With Missouri’s Election Map Mess (opens the original)
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The Supreme Court rejected a brazen plot by Missouri Republican officials to hold the state’s upcoming congressional elections under an illegal map on Thursday morning, ending a weeklong jumble of dueling court orders that disrupted the state’s election processes. In an unsigned order, the justices effectively blocked state officials from using an extremely gerrymandered map passed last year that would have likely given Republicans an additional House seat this fall. Missouri voters will instead
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