Outside the Beltway

Late yesterday, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling striking down the latest version of Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban.

The Supreme Court is allowing the latest version of Donald Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban to go into effect.

A horrible terror attack in Egypt.

The first in an occasional series.

While the President of the United States continues to create chaos, Xi Jinping consolidates his power in China.

White House Chief Of Staff John Kelly publicly defended the President’s call to a military widow yesterday, but he got several facts wrong in the process.

The Trump Administration has issued a new travel ban to replace the temporary one that expired late last week, but it still suffers from most of the same defects as its initial efforts.

The Trump Administration has suffered another Court defeat related to the President’s Muslim Travel Ban.

Some Presidents knew how to respond to racism and hatred. The current President doesn’t.

My apologies to Bob Dreyfuss and Rolling Stone.

The Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of a Colorado baker in a case that will determine if claims of religious liberty and free expression outweigh the application of generally applicable laws against discrimination.

The Supreme Court ruled today that states may not exclude church-run schools from an aid program with a wholly secular purpose.

A van struck a crowd outside a London mosque late last night in an attack by a man who said he wanted to kill Muslims.

The Trump Administration’s Muslim Travel Ban suffers another defeat at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

R.I.P., Caped Crusader

President Trump took to Twitter again this morning and promptly shot himself in the foot.

President Trump’s speech on Islam was a change of tone. However, as critics noted, it was short on substance and is unlikely to accomplish anything.

Another day in Court for President Trump’s Muslim ban.

Extolling an “eye for an eye” kind of justice is not in keeping with the ethics of Jesus.

The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in a case dealing with whether Missouri can deny a religious school from participating in a program to make school playgrounds safer.