Outside the Beltway

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.

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.