Outside the Beltway

Critics of the GOP’s efforts to restrict Federal funding of abortion and related services confuse the concept of the right to have an abortion with the idea that someone has a claim on taxpayer dollars.

Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against Andrew Brietbart promises to be an interesting test of the boundaries of defamation law in the political blogosphere.

A new poll finds that Republican policies on immigration are chasing Latino voters straight into the arms of the Democratic Party.

Mob Boss Tommy Shots Gioeli Blogs From Jail

Later this week, Clarence Thomas will have gone five years without asking a question during oral argument at the Supreme Court. Is that really a big deal?

The Egyptian military is promising a quick transition to new civilian leadership. Will they live up to their promise?

House Democrats are calling on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any litigation regarding the Affordable Care Act. It’s a phony argument, but that’s because it has everything to do with politics and nothing to do with legal ethics.

Predicting (after a fashion) what the SCOTUS will do with the PPACA and a return to the Commerce Clause and the activity/inactivity disucssion.

New York Times writer Adam Liptak discovers that a Supreme Court decision protecting “corporate speech” might not be a bad thing considering that he works for a corporation.

President Obama is telling business they have a social responsibility to invest in America. He’s wrong.

An interpretation of the events in Egypt.

Virginia Thomas’s political activism is once again a political issue.

Virginia will petition the Supreme Court to bypass the normal appellate process and hear the appeal of its lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act early.

Arizona looks to be the latest state to try to revive the discredited doctrine of nullification.

No, the legislation does not in any way “suggest that some kind of rape that would be okay.”

It seems to me that inactivity can have just as profound affects as activity and likewise that it is rather difficult to argue that health care isn’t part of interstate commerce.

A 2005 concurring opinion from Antonin Scalia may be the piece of legal reasoning that ultimately saves the Affordable Care Act in the Courts.

The Egyptian army has publicly ruled out a use of force.

A second Federal District Court judge has declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.

Mohammed el-Baradai had harsh words for Hosni Mubarak and the United States when he spoke today from house arrest.

The “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” would remove the exception for non-forcible rape.

A suit against a newspaper for not removing an old story about a college football player was tossed.

Two Senators are proposing a Constitutional Amendment to redefine what it means to be an American citizen.

The Illinois Supreme Court has issued a partial stay, keeping Rahm Emanuel on the ballot for Chicago mayor.

Actor Alec Baldwin is among hundreds being targeted by New York City for tax evasion. Is it reasonable to have to prove where you live?

Clarence Thomas has amended 13 years’ worth of disclosure reports.

Antonin Scalia hasn’t attended the State of the Union address in a decade and will continue that tradition tonight.

Republicans in Idaho are talking about resurrecting the foolish and discredited idea of nullification as a weapon in the fight against ObamaCare.