Outside the Beltway

The iconic Supreme Court justice has died at the age of 87.

A potentially catastrophic delay has been averted.

A pleasant surprise.

A party-line vote may scuttle mail-in voting in a crucial swing state.

The one-time wunderkind, blogging pioneer, and same-sex marriage champion is now on the outs.

Anonymous bullshit from the New York Post.

We’re winding down to Election Day. Where do we stand?

Some recommended reading.

This really is the heart of the issue.

The NBA playoffs have been hit with a work stoppage.

The Republican Party is now the mirror image of the totalitarian propagandists it used to hate.

Yet another call for military intervention in domestic politics.

Yet another incumbent has lost his primary contest.

Framing matters.

The Supreme Court isn’t taking much of a break this year.

The ‘outside agitators’ trope strikes again.

The similarities are obvious. The differences are more important.

A bizarre but possibly correct ruling by the Supreme Court.

A thought experiment on what we have seen in Portland.

Cops aren’t soldiers or spies but fellow citizens.

Federal agents deployed nonlethal force against peaceful demonstrators.

At what point does a demonstration become something else?

Portland may be a preview of what’s to come.

Another way in which the Framer’s really didn’t understand what they were creating.

The weirdness of Internet outrage culture.

Dissenters to a denied emergency appeal argue it is.

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.

What has the Supreme Court wrought?

The President of the United States is displeased.

Congress forgot to disestablish a Creek Reservation created by treaty in 1833 and 1856 when it made Oklahoma a state in 1909.

A mixed ruling: New York wins, Congress loses–but no release before the election.

A researcher has documented 66 separate incidents since May 27.

States can punish Electors who substitute their judgment for those of the voters.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

A controversial monument in Little Italy has been destroyed.

Leadership matters (as does culture).

A seemingly obvious result that isn’t.

Is the Chief Justice laying a trap or simply ‘calling balls and strikes’?

A reprise of an almost identical case with a different group of Justices–and the Chief Justice switching sides.

Whether the 26th Amendment precludes giving preferential treatment to the elderly will have to wait for another day.

A 7-2 decision by the highest court in the land is less decisive than the numbers suggest.

A reckoning for 2500 Kosovar Serb civilians who were slaughtered is at hand.

For the second time, the chief federal prosecutor for Manhattan has been fired.

Donald Trump would be a more effective and dangerous President if he and his team were more competent.

A too-long discourse on how courts should function.

The 6-3 opinion written by Justice Gorsuch and joined by Chief Justice Roberts defies conventional wisdom.

As the President becomes less popular, there are signs he’s losing support from his co-partisans in Congress.

Decades of reform efforts have failed. Is it time for a radical solution?

Not that one. The other one.