Outside the Beltway

The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.

The first full day of Donald Trump’s Presidency consisted largely of obsessions with irrelevant facts and outright lies.

A majority of the Supreme Court appears to be skeptical of a Federal law barring trademark protection for “offensive” names and slogans.

Survivors and family members of the Pulse Nightclub attack have filed what amounts to a frivolous lawsuit.

An odd choice for HUD Secretary.

Those who voted for him thinking he would be guided or controlled by more sober individuals or that he would start acting presidential once elected: you were wrong.

A Federal Judge has dismissed a lawsuit that tried to make an end-run around the Senate and put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court.

F.B.I. Director Comey tells Congress that it’s investigation into new emails revealed no information to change its conclusions about Hillary Clinton and her email server.

A late Friday news dump by the Director of the F.B.I. has thrown a confusing curve ball into the race.

The personal, the political, and the Foundation are so intertwined as to be one enterprise.

Some early musings on a political fantasy that’s less implausible than it was 12 hours ago.

It looks like we won’t have Roy Moore to kick around anymore.

Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.

An amplification on the question of likability.

Another set of revelations shows that the Clinton campaign has yet to put the email story behind it.

A Federal Court has barred the Federal Government from enforcing guidelines on the rights of transgender students in public schools.

The nature of US parties means that Trump more or less is the GOP at the moment, and hence the GOP will do nothing about Trump.

The death penalty appears to be effectively dead in Delaware thanks to a decision by the State Supreme Court.

A Federal Judge in North Dakota has struck down that state’s Voter ID Law, the fourth such decision in less than a month.

Big losses for proponents of Voter ID laws in two swing states.

Thirty five years after trying to kill President Reagan, John W. Hinckley Jr. is close to being a free man.

A big setback for one of the most restrictive Voter ID Laws in the country.

As the allegations of sexual harassment grow, reports are also growing that Roger Ailes may be out at Fox News much sooner than many may have anticipated.

Another acquittal in Baltimore leads to questions about whether or not prosecutors should continue with the trials against the officers involved in the Freddie Gray matter.

If the allegations of a new lawsuit are true, things are truly lurid behind the scenes at Fox News Channel.

Mississippi tried to provide special protection to opponents of same-sex marriage and transgender rights. A Federal District Court Judge, properly, finds the law to be unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court won’t hear the appeal of a pharmacist who objects to providing the ‘morning after’ pill.

In overturning former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s conviction, the Supreme Court has sent a powerful message to overly zealous prosecutors.

The Supreme Court has handed down a major abortion rights ruling that reaffirms the central reasoning of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and makes it less likely that Roe will ever be overturned.

The Supreme Court balances the Fourth Amendment against public safety concerns and, for the most part, gets it right.

In a somewhat surprising opinion from Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas’s race-based admissions program.

The trial of the man who was believed to be the most culpable in the death of Freddie Gray has been acquitted, calling the entire prosecution strategy into question.

The Supreme Court has once again issued a ruling that further chips away at the protections of the Fourth Amendment.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals deals a setback to the gun rights movement.

With two former Republican governors running under its banner, is there such a thing as a “Libertarian Party”?

Yes, Colin Powell used private email too. No, it’s not the same thing. No, it’s not because he was a Republican.

A group of states led by Texas has filed a suit in response to new guidelines from the Federal Government regarding the rights of transgender students.

A bad day for the Clinton campaign.

Deflategate isn’t over yet and, depending on what happens in the Courts, could still be unresolved at the end of the N.F.L. season that begins in September.

Faced with the prospect of a 4-4 tie, the Supreme Court instead came up with a decision on the PPACA’s birth control mandate that didn’t decide anything.

Begun, the bathroom wars have.

A Federal Court has ruled that the Administration violated the law when it spent funds allocated under the PPACA for purposes other than those authorized by Congress.

The political fight over North Carolina’s so-called “Bathroom Bill” has moved to the Federal Courts.

Bill Kristol is continuing the #NeverTrump fight to its logical next step, trying to find a more mainstream Republican to run as an independent in the fall.

Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s fate lies the hands of the Supreme Court.

A Federal Appeals Court has reinstated the four game suspension imposed on Tom Brady over the so-called ‘Deflategate’ scandal.