Outside the Beltway

The Supreme Court is likely to finish striking down restrictions on offensive trademarks.

The other shoe has dropped.

The Wikileaks founder has been detained by London authorities after 7 years hiding in Ecuador’s embassy.

There are even higher obligations than taking care of Marines.

The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez edition.

California Governor Gavin Newsome may have put the issue front and center for 2020.

As many states contemplate restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentence, a leading Democrat wants to go further.

The Justice Department has issued a damning report.

The esteemed biographer on his process.

The replacement of Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh is already having a significant impact.

Oral argument hints that we may have a 5-4 ruling allowing state legislatures to continue stacking the deck.

The decision to hand Democrats a victory and step on the good news from the Mueller report apparently came from the very top.

One of the most bizarre cases in recent memory gets . . . much more bizarre.

The Justice Department has reversed course and will not fight a December ruling overturning the Affordable Care Act.

The Lawfare gang and Popehat weigh in.

The Speaker says she will reject any attempt to deliver it in a “highly classified” manner.

“His sexual needs were his sexual needs.” And, you know, criminal.

A racist scholar took some fascinating photos of an enslaved man in 1860. Now, his descendants want the rights to them.

Last November the state voted overwhelming to amend its constitution. The lawmakers they elected at the same time are sabotaging it.

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

The President’s latest ravings are “very bad, very bad.”

Minutes after a Federal judge added 43 months to his sentence, New York state prosecutors unsealed an indictment that could yield another 7 years.

An over-the-top police response to a non-violent offense.

Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are the most famous of dozens of rich folks trying to get their kids into elite schools.

Mandatory vaccination laws raise personal liberty issues that ought to be taken seriously, but in the end, public health concerns weigh heavily in favor of laws mandating vaccination.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

The relatively light sentence that Paul Manafort received is raising eyebrows. Hopefully it will lead to a long-overdue debate on sentencing reform.

Chelsea Manning is in jail for refusing to comply with a Grand Jury subpoena apparently related to an ongoing investigation of Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

Paul Manafort walked into court yesterday facing the possibility of 20 years in prison. He came away with a much better outcome.

A novel proposal for making SCOTUS appointments more responsive to election outcomes.

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

There appear to be enough votes in the Senate to pass the resolution disapproving President Trump’s border wall “emergency,” but there’s not enough Republican support to override an expected veto.

Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.

President Trump personally overrode the objections of security officials, the White House Counsel, and the Chief of Staff to make sure his son-in-law got a security clearance.

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward letting a war memorial on public property stay in place.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being charged with three charges of corruption even as he faces an election in just over a month.

Instead of merely seeking to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border, Congress should instead significantly amend the National Emergencies Act.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has upheld the Administration’s ban on bump stocks.

Michael Cohen, the President’s former lawyer and “fixer,” is set to deliver several bombshells in his testimony before Congress today.

The Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument in a case involving a World War I Memorial in the form of a cross on public land in Suburban Maryland.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

Cardinal George Pell, the top Catholic Cleric in Australia, has been convicted of sexually abusing boys in the 1990s.

A 2016 Trump Campaign staffer has filed a lawsuit against the President alleging that she was assaulted by Trump during the campaign.

After a decade of using the alleged problem of “voter fraud” to justify things like Voter ID Laws, Republicans are remarkably silent in the fact of an actual example of fraud and election tampering.

A bipartisan group of foreign policy luminaries says there is no factual basis for President Trump’s claim.

Gun laws requiring guns to be taken away from convicted felons are either being ignored or have too many loopholes. We need to fix that.

Now that women are allowed into all combat roles, the rationale for excluding them from Selective Service has evaporated.

There’s only one solution to the D.C. statehood issue. It’s called retrocession.

A new poll shows that most Americans believe the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision should remain the law on the land. Opinion on other abortion-related issues is more divided.

A student in Florida has been charged with creating a disturbance after declining to recite the Pledge Of Allegiance in class.