Outside the Beltway

A loudmouth III%er cried like a baby during his sentencing.

A theory floated in Bush v Gore could radically change American elections.

States emboldened by Dobbs are testing just how far the Supreme Court will let them go.

Shocking but perhaps unsurprising news.

The symbolic vote attracted a handful of Republican votes.

An already awful system on steroids.

When belief is more important than facts

Police and the Punisher Skull

The law is behind the times.

Oh, and committed insurance fraud to boot.

Who should have the final say on the law of the land?

An absurd extension of the fight over abortion.

The President has very little power here but he’s using it.

Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring today and will swear his former law clerk in his replacement.

The Supreme Court has reversed decades of precedent on church-state separation.

Abortion is now illegal or heavily restricted in at least 11 states.

So, what now?

A comparison of the two texts.

Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban may or may not be back in effect.

Concerned no more, Senator Collins is now dismayed that she was misled.

The leaked draft is now the law of the land.

A rather bizarre coda to yesterday’s big Supreme Court decision.

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

The longest-serving Supreme Court Justice is a nice guy.

A group of extremists are stopped from instigating a riot.

A man who claims he was going to kill the Supreme Court Justice is in jail.

Some thoughts.

A slim majority upheld an injunction, kicking the can down the road.

What does it all mean? It depends on who you ask.

Are we too regulated for our own good?

Or are they?

Donald Trump and friends speak to the NRA.

“Protect and Serve” is just a slogan, not a guarantee.

Despite their military trappings and propaganda, they’re seldom heroes.

It doesn’t appear the Uvalde TX police were underfunded

An example of security theater with proven negative social impacts

She advocated that AZ overturn its election.

Very little progress has been made towards racial justice.

Tragedy has played out so often that it has become a statistic.

Assumptions of racial animus are overshadowing a story that’s outrageous enough on its own.

Susan Collins and other Senators claiming otherwise are just wrong.

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

Not so conservative.

In other news, there’s gambling going on at Casablanca.

At least not right away. But it’s quite possible by 2040.

The 45th President was a psychopath.

The role of American political institutions.

The apparently eminent demise of abortion rights has reignited an old debate.

The Senator from Maine once against demonstrates that she shouldn’t be prognosticating about people’s future actions.

POLITICO has obtained what purports to be the 1st draft of the opinion.