Outside the Beltway

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are pushing back against Apple and Google’s efforts to provide greater privacy to users.. They’re wrong.

One of last members of President Obama’s original cabinet is stepping aside.

Freedom Of The Press, if you can afford to pay the fee.

Once again, Justice Ginsburg is telling people she has no plans to resign, but her explanation is a bit different this time.

Chief Justice Roberts lamented recently that an increasingly partisan confirmation process could mean that Justices who have contributed much to the Court would not be confirmed today. He’s right.

Justice Ginsburg had some interesting things to say about the same-sex marriage cases headed to the Supreme Court.

The Kansas Supreme Court may have just upended the battle for control of the U.S. Senate

A recent change by Apple is good news for advocates of privacy and civil liberties in the Internet Age.

Kansas’s highest court heard argument today in a legal dispute that could play a huge role in deciding who controls the Senate after November 4th.

The courts have been striking them down at a dizzying pace since June.

The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.

Well, that punishment didn’t last for very long.

The firing actually hurts Janay Rice much more than it does Ray.

A Federal Judge in Ohio has issued a very troubling ruling on that state’s early voting law.

It would appear that someone needs to introduce the Air Force to Article VI of the Constitution.

A once rising GOP star hits bottom.

Two men in North Carolina are free after spending 31 years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit.

Chris McDaniel’s meritless, quixotic challenge to the Mississippi GOP Senate Primary is reaching it’s expected conclusion.

As talk begins of expanding the war against ISIS into Syria, it is becoming long past time for Congress to exercise its Constitutional function.

The Copyright Office says that works not “created” by humans are not entitled to copyright protection.

The General Accounting Office confirmed what seems clear to anyone who can read a statute.

Lawsuits against the theater where 12 people were murdered in 2012 may go forward.

There is a good possibility that Darren Wilson could be acquitted in the shooting of Michael Brown.. Are the protesters ready to accept that reality?

What you think about the events in Ferguson depends quite a lot on whether you’re black or white.

17-year veteran of the LAPD says, “If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me.”

We should not tolerate them acting otherwise.

The situation in Ferguson, Missouri isn’t calming down.

The shooting of Michael Brown is just another example of an ongoing problem.

A trial court judge in Tennessee is the first jurist since the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Windsor to uphold a ban on same-sex marriage

A major voting rights ruling out of North Carolina.

Former Reagan speechwriter and gun control activist Jim Brady’s death has been ruled a homicide. No, there was no foul play involved—at least not recently.

Could John Hinckley, Jr. face murder charges 30 years after his attempted assassination of President Reagan?

A big setback for Mississippi’s erstwhile Tea Party candidate for Senate.

There is simply no evidence of the kind of in-person voter impersonation that Voter ID Laws were designed to prevent.

No, it’s not over yet.

Viet Xuan Luong pins on a brigadier general’s star today, becoming the first Vietnamese-American officer to achieve that rank.