The Supreme Court’s decision on marriage equality seems to have revived an idea that has been mentioned before, but as it has always been, the idea of “getting government out of marriage” is little more than a simplistic slogan.
Chris Christie is in the race for the Republican nomination, but it’s tough to see how he has a plausible path to relevance.
When you’re being paid $65,000 to speak for less than an hour, you’re pretty much the poster child for privilege.
In the wake of the latest Supreme Court decision, the Affordable Care Act seems to have become even more firmly established than it was before last week, and the prospect of repeal has become even less likely.
The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to wade back into the thorny issue of race and higher education.
The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the way the death penalty is administered, dealing a serious blow to opponents of the death penalty.
SCOTUS has upheld the use of election commissions to draw Congressional district lines.
There are still legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act pending after King v. Burwell, but they aren’t quite as substantial as what we’ve seen over the last five years.
The Attorney General of Texas is responding to the Supreme Court’s marriage ruling by telling Clerk’s who issue marriage license that they are free to ignore the law.
The events of the past two weeks could allow the Republican Party to move forward.
In an ordinary year, Ohio Governor John Kasich seems like he’d be a perfect candidate for Republicans in an era when winning the Buckeye State is essential to winning the White House. But things are far from ordinary in the GOP.
There’s a lot of pandering and outright nonsense in the wake of the Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage.
The Greek Government is basically shutting the banking system down tomorrow as negotiations over its debt problems continue.
It was a close vote, but Virginia’s Republican leaders did the smart thing yesterday in picking a primary over a convention in 2016.
In week a that has seen discussion of lost causes, the Chief Justice of the Alabama Surpreme Court appears poised to fight one last battle.
Wherein I take the view that as our understanding of language changes, so too does our application of the Constiution.
The people who continue to claim that the Confederate Flag is about anything other than hatred, racism, and a nation that celebrated slavery are lying to you and to themselves.
If you’re under 21 in Hawaii, you’re still technically an adult but you can’t buy tobacco.
Andrew Sullivan, perhaps the man most responsible for putting the notion of marriage equality into the national debate, has come out of his blogging retirement to weigh in on yesterday’s historic ruling.
The reaction of many of the GOP candidates to the decision in Obergefell v. Hodges is about what you’d expect, but there are a few interesting surprises.
A proposed California law would require all students who attend public school to be vaccinated, with limited exemptions for medical reasons.
The Supreme Court has issued a ruling whose roots can be found in case law going back half a century.
The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the U.S. Constitution contains a right to same-sex marriage.
Bernie Sanders is closing in the polls, but it still seems as though it doesn’t mean as much as some political pundits will try to tell you it does.
A Congressman wants to force Supreme Court Justices to get their health care through the ObamaCare exchange.
If Jim Webb runs for President, he will be the only candidate in either party who is on record defending the Confederate Battle Flag. And he’s thinking of running as a Democrat.
Things that make you go hmmmm…..
The era of legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act is over.
Political reality shows us that the shootings in Charleston are not going to have any appreciable impact on the likelihood of any type of gun control law passing anywhere outside of the bluest of the blue states.
Matthew Dickinson takes a stab at explaining “Why So Many Republicans Are Running in 2016.”
The Administration announced changes to the way the government handles hostage situations, but it really doesn’t amount to much.
Pete Rose’s efforts at rehabilitation may have just been fatally injured.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeared in public for what is likely the last time in his life, apologized for the crimes he committed, and was unsurprisingly sentenced to death by a Federal Judge.
