Outside the Beltway

A reasonable ruling clarifying a poorly-written prior opinion.

A non-ruling by the Supreme Court is being touted as something else.

Well, more than two…

A republic if you can keep it, indeed.

The DC district attorney’s office is looking into allegations of masssive tax fraud.

Dueling headlines give radically different impressions of the same case.

The nation’s highest court has gone all woke.

Don’t blame the primary author of The Federalist for our current mess.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is signaling an unfavorable ruling.

The Supreme Court may revisit a controversial criminal justice ruling.

Why have Americans lost trust in their institutions?

The late Chief Justice was right; his successors are wrong.

Some 4500 tip line reports were simply turned over to the White House and not investigated further.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

A man who claims he was going to kill the Supreme Court Justice is in jail.

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

The apparently eminent demise of abortion rights has reignited an old debate.

Oklahoma’s near-total ban is part of a larger trend.

Is a contribution after an election different from one during an election?

Yes the riots were a disgrace but the Democrats . . . .

Oral arguments on the biggest abortion case in decades will be heard today.

The President is in open defiance of the Supreme Court.

Another 6-3 decision along ideological lines.

Things that make you go Hmmm.

Most NCAA restrictions violate anti-trust law.

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

How should we balance public health and fundamental rights?

The Pundit’s Fallacy meets opportunism.

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

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

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

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

The convergence of design flaws in the constitution and a flawed leader have brought us to brink of an electoral crisis.

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

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

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

The state of American debate is not strong.

And a broader discussion of the ongoing Tara Reade story.

The presumptive Democratic nominee says, “They aren’t true. This never happened.”

The final delegate count may well be skewed.

After months of silence, Maine Senator Susan Collins has announced that she is running for a fifth term in office.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked a Mississippi law that banned nearly all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.

Kamala Harris didn’t fail because of her race, she failed because she was a bad candidate.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

A Federal District court Judge in Alabama has blocked implementation of that state’s latest attempt to challenge Roe v. Wade

The norms of social discourse are rapidly changing in the #MeToo era.

While some Democrats are calling for the impeachment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on Capitol Hill aren’t nearly as eager to go down that road.

Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren are pandering to the base.

A new look at the allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh uncovers some new evidence.

A defense of a modest philosophy of judicial interpretation.