Outside the Beltway

Despite the fact that she asserted her right against self-incrimination, a House Committee has voted to hold Lois Lerner in contempt for refusing to testify.

Fifth Amendment? They don’t need no Fifth Amendment, apparently.

If something is going to be done about an out of control National Security State, it’ll be because the American people demand it.

Another Circuit Court finds that the Second Amendment protects a right to carry a weapon in public.

Another victory for marriage equality. This time from the state that gave us the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on interracial marriage.

About 1,000 same-sex couples married in Utah before the Supreme Court stay find themselves in an odd legal limbo.

For the time being at least, same-sex marriage is once again banned in Utah.

An excellent argument for immigration reform can be found in the case of one Californian named Sergio Garcia.

A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.

The year that will soon ended will go down in history as the year that the same-sex marriage debate changed forever.

A victory for same-sex marriage in an unlikely place.

A 17th state legalizes gay marriage. There’s no turning back.

Does a determination that NSA data collection practices are likely unconstitutional mean that Edward Snowden’s actions were, in some sense, justified?

A potentially big legal setback for a big National Security Agency program.

It wasn’t a Thermonuclear move, more like something the size of Hiroshima, but today the Senate took an historic move nonetheless.

After the GOP blocked a series of Obama judicial nominees, Democrats are again threatening to go nuclear on filibuster reform.

A second Federal Court of Appeals in a week in two weeks has ruled the PPACA’s birth control mandate is unconstitutional.

The state where the same-sex marriage battle began is just days away from legalizing same-sex marriage.

Another Federal Court has declared the PPACA’s contraceptive coverage mandate to be unconstitutional.

NSA Director General Keith Alexander really doesn’t like the idea of a free press.

Even if it were functioning properly the Federal Health Care Exchange website would still have problems.

Chris Christie’s decision to take a tactical retreat on the issue of same-sex marriage raises some interesting questions for 2016.

The first poll taken after the shutdown began has little good news for the Republican Party.

There’s no sign that the government shutdown will end any time soon.

An historic same-sex marriage ruling out of New Jersey.

New technology brings the day of round the clock tracking of citizens who’ve done nothing wrong ever closer.

The marriage equality battle is entering its next phase.

Not surprisingly, Lois Lerner’s attorney is saying his client will only testify under a grant of immunity.

Absent DOMA, the Full Faith and Credit Clause would seem to make gay marriage legal across the land.

Effective immediately, Texans will have to show photo identification to vote.

A Colorado 6-year-old with a penis has successfully sued for the right to use the girls’ restroom.

President Obama threw down a gauntlet today in the form of a trio of Judicial nominations.

It’s going to be another eventful month for the Supreme Court.

A government panel is recommending that the BAC limit for drunk driving be lowered nearly 40%.

The days of tax-free online shopping are coming to an end.

The Supreme Court has ducked an opportunity to expand the holdings in D.C. v. Heller

The Defense Of Marriage Act didn’t fare very well during today’s Supreme Court oral arguments.