Outside the Beltway

Yesterday marked fifteen years since I launched Outside the Beltway on the old Blogspot service. 

Another win for forces fighting partisan Gerrymandering.

A group of 21 states has filed a petition to review the F.C.C.’s recent net neutrality rule changes, but it faces an uncertain future.

The Supreme Court heard argument yesterday in an important case dealing with the circumstances under which voters can be purged from the voting rolls.

A Federal Court in North Carolina has issued a stinging ruling against the partisan gerrymandering undertaken by the Republican legislature in that state.

A Federal Judge has put a hold on the impending end of the DACA program.

Roy Moore isn’t giving up, but he can’t stop the inevitable.

Three U.S. cities are suing the Federal Government over the failure to properly report military convictions to the national gun background check database.

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.

A Judge in New York has dismissed a lawsuit against the President based on two provisions of the Constitution that had never been ruled on before.

One for the textbooks.

Transgender Americans will be able to enlist in the military beginning January 1st thanks to a ruling from a Federal District Court Judge.

The Supreme Court held oral argument in a case that pits First Amendment rights against the rights of LGBT Americans.

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

The Supreme Court heard argument today in a case challenging a 1992 law barring sports gambling in all but a handful of states, and the Justices appeared skeptical of the law.

Ominous news for the Trump Administration today out of Federal Court in Washington, D.C.

The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in what could end up being a landmark case on the issue of the scope of Fourth Amendment rights in the 21st Century.

For the second time in as many months, a Federal Court is blocking the Administration’s ban on transgender troops in the military.

After nearly four decades in power, Robert Mugabe has stepped down after a military coup. What happens next is another, more complicated, question.

A Federal Judge in California has entered an order permanently blocking a Trump Administration effort to deny funding to so-called sanctuary cities.

House Republicans unveiled their tax reform bill today, but its fate is far from clear.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has blocked the Trump Administration from implementing its ban on transgender soldiers.

A Trump Campaign official has been charged with and pled guilty to charges of lying to the F.B.I. regarding contacts with Russian officials.

The first shoes drop in the Mueller investigation.

President Trump sinks even lower.