Outside the Beltway

Was Marbury v. Madison a mistake?

More data shows a more complicated picture.

A major effort to capture the diversity of America.

It’s easy if you try.

The inevitable pushback against the pushback has begun.

Thousands of LGBTQ veterans are seeking to have their discharges upgraded.

The justices declined to review a bizarre 4th Circuit decision.

The inevitable has happened. Now for the fallout.

Good news with a cautionary note.

A surprising ruling on the Voting Rights Act.

Because screw the other students.

Either it’s a public forum or it’s not.

New documents reveal the internal deliberations of the Court.

A pending Supreme Court ruling could be more impactful than many realize.

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

Is it time to call the whole thing off?

The implications of modes of interpretation.

Here we go again . . . .

An ugly divorce exposes a gap in our legal structure.

It doesn’t add up.

It’s not compelling.

A novel but flawed legal argument.

An arrest underscores what the problem isn’t.

They were rejected bigly.

A defensible distinction could give way to a Constitutional crisis.

The Lone Star state is making up its own rules.

Dissenters to a denied emergency appeal argue it is.

A too-long discourse on how courts should function.

A feminist icon offers some advice her allies will not want to hear.

Continuing a discuss from below.

The Democratic victory in Virginia’s legislative elections has revived hopes for advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment, Even if Virginia does become the 38th state to ratify the measure, though, the actual status of the Amendment is exceedingly unclear.

Late last week, a Federal Judge in California placed on hold a state law requiring candidates to provide copies of their tax returns.

A defense of a modest philosophy of judicial interpretation.

A Federal Court has ruled once again in favor of a transgender student in Virginia who was prevented from using the bathroom conforming to their gender identity.

Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.

A day after appearing to have conceded the issue, the Trump Administration says it is still looking for a way to include a citizenship question on the ballot.

A panel of three Federal Judges has found Ohio’s Congressional District map to be unconstitutional, but a case currently pending before the Supreme Court could mute the impact of this decision.

A Federal Court in Michigan has found several of that state’s Congressional and state legislative districts to have been subject to extreme partisan gerrymandering.

The Supreme Court has agreed to accept a group of cases dealing with the issue of whether or not existing civil rights laws bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Oral argument hints that we may have a 5-4 ruling allowing state legislatures to continue stacking the deck.

Justice Clarence Thomas argues that a 55-year-old precedent should be overturned.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected a challenge by three women to their prosecution for going topless on a public beach in the Granite State.

The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of partisan gerrymandering. This time, though, they’re likely to reach the merits of the cases rather than punting like they did last year.

Washington has become the latest state to ban the sale of semiautomatic assault rifles to persons under 21.

Late last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals became the fifth Federal Court to rule against the Trump Administration’s efforts to repeal DACA.

The Supreme Court is set to consider whether to take a case involving employment discrimination based on gender identity.

President Trump is now claiming he will end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants via Executive Order. He clearly lacks the authority to do this.

Last week, the Washington State Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional. The latest in a string of victories for opponents of capital punishment.