Outside the Beltway

A defensible distinction could give way to a Constitutional crisis.

Sigh.

Rethinking what qualities we should be looking for in Supreme Court Justices.

Disconnected representation in action.

A desperate re-election gambit that has no impact on the outcome.

Chuck Schumer and company sent a signal to their base against a fait accompli.

Some judicial alphabet soup in dialog with my co-blogger.

After weeks of evasion, the frontrunner hints at a compromise policy.

A legally correct ruling based on a lie.

The Emoluments Clause is essentially unenforceable.

It’s not a cult but not exactly mainstream, either.

An unconvincing attack on the Democratic position.

Multiple reports have the Notre Dame graduate replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

A Solomonic solution from the commentariat.

It’s time to accept the desecration of our political constitution.

Legitimacy hangs in the balance.

It is about finding ways to combat minority rule.

Two related discussions.

The iconic Supreme Court justice has died at the age of 87.

Yet another call for military intervention in domestic politics.

The Supreme Court isn’t taking much of a break this year.

A bizarre but possibly correct ruling by the Supreme Court.

Another way in which the Framer’s really didn’t understand what they were creating.

Dissenters to a denied emergency appeal argue it is.

What has the Supreme Court wrought?

The President of the United States is displeased.

Congress forgot to disestablish a Creek Reservation created by treaty in 1833 and 1856 when it made Oklahoma a state in 1909.

A mixed ruling: New York wins, Congress loses–but no release before the election.

States can punish Electors who substitute their judgment for those of the voters.

A seemingly obvious result that isn’t.

Is the Chief Justice laying a trap or simply ‘calling balls and strikes’?

A reprise of an almost identical case with a different group of Justices–and the Chief Justice switching sides.

Whether the 26th Amendment precludes giving preferential treatment to the elderly will have to wait for another day.

A 7-2 decision by the highest court in the land is less decisive than the numbers suggest.

Donald Trump would be a more effective and dangerous President if he and his team were more competent.

A too-long discourse on how courts should function.

The 6-3 opinion written by Justice Gorsuch and joined by Chief Justice Roberts defies conventional wisdom.

SCOTUS and “faithless electors.”

And a broader discussion of the ongoing Tara Reade story.

An 8-1 rebuke from the nation’s highest court.

The state is voting during the high point of a global pandemic because Republicans forced it.

The Constitution in times of extreme crisis.

A case that should never have made it to the Supreme Court.

A feminist icon offers some advice her allies will not want to hear.

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.