Outside the Beltway

In some sense, justice has prevailed.

Another Obamacare case is heading to the Supreme Court, but it’s unclear if they’ll agree to hear it, or when they’d hear it if they did.

Your tax dollars, not at work.

The trial of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife opened yesterday, and it sounded more like a soap opera than a legal proceeding.

A Federal Appeals Court has rejected a challenge to Obamacare based on a somewhat obscure provision of the Constitution.

Another Circuit Court of Appeals has weighed in on the marriage equality debate.

In a logical extension of the Supreme Court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller, a Federal Judge has struck down D.C.’s law barring people from carrying handguns in public.

The Grey Lady sees the light on a major part of the War On Drugs.

Contradictory rulings from two Federal Courts of Appeal show that statutory construction isn’t a simple thing.

Good intentions, bad results.

Another step closer to the Supreme Court.

A lot of Republicans dislike the President enough to think that he should be removed from office, but will that make impeachment more likely to happen?

A Silicon Valley businessman says he has enough signatures to get it on the ballot, but the plan to break California up into six states is most assuredly going nowhere.

A case pending in Federal Court in Washington, D.C. could pose new legal problems for the Affordable Care Act

Jose Antonio Vargas was brought to the U.S. at the age of 12 and never left. Now, some are suggesting he should be deported as soon as possible.

Just in time for the midterms, Todd Akin is back to remind voters of the GOP’s problems with female voters.

To some extent, we seem to be becoming overprotective.

John Boehner’s latest political move is designed mostly to appease the GOP base, but it’s likely a non-starter from a legal point of view.

Assuming it accepts the appeal, Utah is giving the Supreme Court its high profile case for the October 2015 Term.

Judging by the early results, the so-called “Right To Be Forgotten” recently created by Europe’s highest court is creating more problems than it will solve.

The law’s insane over-reaction to teen “sexting” has gotten even more insane in one Virginia County.

Much of the criticism of Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United before it, is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those decisions stand for.

Some people on the left are still trying to convince Ruth Bader Ginsburg that she needs to just step out on the ice floe already.

A case out of Louisiana raises serious First Amendment issues.

Political irony, perhaps, but probably less than meets the eye.

Hobby Lobby Is an important decision, but it’s one that the Supreme Court handed down a week earlier that will have the widest impact.

Another area where the law has not caught up with technology.

Discussions about immigration policy are, unfortunately, very much like Groundhog Day.

The Supreme Court’s next term doesn’t start for three months, but it’s becoming clear that the Justices will have to deal with marriage equality when it does.

Is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act itself an unconstitutional Establishment of Religion barred by the First Amendment? There’s a compelling argument that it is.

There’s been far too much hysteria and hyperbole when it comes to ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws.

Another area where the law has yet to catch up to technology.

The Supreme Court has limited the ability of public employee unions to force people to join their ranks.

Hobby Lobby wins, but it’s unclear just how far this opinion will go.

A Federal Appeals Court has struck down a D.C. law requiring tour guides to get a license and pass a test.

The justice system works, there’s no need to scrap it.

The Supreme Court has saved the biggest case of the term for its last day.

It turns out there was much less to that Scott Walker document dump than the press coverage claimed.