Outside the Beltway

Supreme Court watchers have been speculating since Sunday night about who might have leaked confidential court information to the press.

Today, the Supreme Court decided that mandatory life sentences for juveniles violate the 8th Amendment.

The Solicitor General had another bad day in Court yesterday.

Some Republicans seem intent on repeating the mistakes of 2008.

Voter ID laws are a good idea, but we have to be careful in how we implement them.

The Supreme Court issued a somewhat muddled ruling on GPS tracking today.

How far should the press go in challenging assertions by politicians?

Another death row inmate. Another case of prosecutorial misconduct from the office of Harry Connick, Sr.

The Chief Justice Of The United States defends his colleagues.

John Hawkins has compiled a list of The Top 20 Most Influential Black Republicans. It’s not impressive.

Questions have been raised about whether it is proper for Elena Kagan to hear the Affordable Care Act lawsuit.

Cain’s woes continue to mount.

Perversely, highly qualified nominees for the courts are more likely to be rejected by Congress.

A cynical racial play by Herman Cain.

A new look at Clarence Thomas’s 20 years on the Supreme Court, from a critic, is surprisingly positive.

A few liberal law professors say Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should resign now so President Obama can pick her successor.

Another major campaign finance case from the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court struck down a ban on the sale of violent video games to children, a victory for the First Amendment and parental authority.

Prisons can be so overcrowded as to constitute cruel and inhuman punishment.

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has told prosecutors that they can get away with withholding evidence that clears an innocent defendant and never have to face the consequences of their action. That is an outrage.

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?

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.

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

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

The Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the appeal of a far-reaching Commerce Clause case may indicate rough times ahead for challenges to ObamaCare

Rush Limbaugh is apparently not impressed with Barack Obama’s presidency. That doesn’t make him a racist.

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen argues that it’s time to put the debate over the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill mess to rest. He’s right.

Thanks mostly to Virginia Thomas’s decision to place an early Saturday morning phone call to Anita Hill, a woman who had remained silent since 1986 appears in the press to claim she can corroborate the charges that Anita Hill made nineteen years ago.

Andy Borowitz suggests “Three Things to Do When Clarence Thomas’s Wife Calls You.”

Nineteen years after they ended, the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings are back in the news thanks to a voicemail that Thomas’s wife left for Professor Hill.

Justice Alito said recently he won’t be attending the next State of the Union address. Sounds like a good idea to me.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Virginia is under scrutiny ? Why ? Because she has a job.

Some Republicans are start to wonder if it’s such a good idea for their party to be so closely associated with the heated rhetoric surrounding the future of this former Burlington Coat Factory.

A bizarre rant in American Spectator contains some interesting thoughts about the nature of America’s political elite.

As Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings begin, Senate Republican’s seem to have very little to hold against her.