Outside the Beltway

From the grounds of the state capitol in Montgomery, AL.

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

Amending the Constitution with one simple trick.

Unlimited dialog makes conversations harder.

Omarosa Manigault Newman, who used to be a Trump favorite, is out with a book that makes sensationalistic claims about the Trump Administration. The real story, though, is what she has on tape and how she got it.

White supremacists held a rally in Washington on Sunday, and almost no one but their opponents and the police showed up.

In a rare red-state victory for labor unions, Missouri voters rejected a right to work initiative by an overwhelming margin.

Washington, D.C.’s Metro system has scrapped any plan to give participants in next week’s white supremacist rally private train cars.

A Federal Judge in Washington State has, at least temporarily, blocked the release of files that would allow anyone to make a 3-D printed gun. The First Amendment seems to clearly indicate that this ruling is wrong.

With Justice Kennedy retiring, the new center of the Roberts Court is likely to be the Chief Justice himself.

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that public sector unions cannot force employees to pay membership fees.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down a California law requiring Crisis Pregnancy Centers to provide information about abortion.

The Supreme Court declined, for now, to hear the appeal of a Washington state florist who declined to provide services for a same-sex wedding. The issues it raises, though, are likely to return to the Court in the future.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia last night, and the incident raises questions of how far we should let politics infiltrate everyday life.

He thinks his Constitutional rights are being violated. They’re not.

Some legal scholars are speculating that the Court’s ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop could impact the ruling on the President’s Muslim Travel Ban. This seems unlikely.

President Trump has unblocked Twitter users, but at the same time his lawyers are appealing the ruling that he can’t block Twitter users.

In an exceedingly narrow ruling, the Supreme Court sided with a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding reception. However, the ruling did not address the broader issues raised by the case.

The President’s constant attacks on the news media are meant for a single purpose, to undermine even accurate reporting about wrongdoing in his Administration.

Alex Jones is finally being called on to answer for his irresponsible lying about events like the Sandy Hook shooting.

A Federal Judge in New York has ruled that President Trump cannot block users from reading his tweets.

The N.F.L. has come up with a dumb “solution” to a non-existent problem.

For Donald Trump and his supporters, “Fake News” means any news that doesn’t shower enough praise on him.

The incident involving Paul Ryan and the House Chaplain has raised some questions.

Randa Jarrar was classless and contemptible, which is protected by the First Amendment. As a tenured state employee so is her job.