Outside the Beltway

A slow-moving disaster.

Well, most of them.

Asset forfeiture may finally get reined in.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is signaling an unfavorable ruling.

The President is in open defiance of the Supreme Court.

A too-long discourse on how courts should function.

Some inchorent musings about a massive question.

A Federal Court has struck down the President’s diversion of funds for his border wall.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t very impressed by the proposals made by several liberal politicians lately to increase the size of the Supreme Court to counterbalance the conservative tilt created by the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh confirmations.

The Supreme Court handed the President a victory last night, ruling that the Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging his funding of the border wall did not have standing to challenge his diversion of Defense Department funds. This may only be a temporary victory, though.

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

Later today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear argument in a case that could upend the Affordable Care Act.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.

A law professor asks some interesting questions, but ultimately not the right ones.

Eight years after it was signed into law, a Federal Judge has ruled the Affordable Care Act to be unconstitutional.

On Tuesday, Michigan joined the ranks of the states where marijuana is legal and several other states legalized it for medical purposes.

Overwhelmingly, legal experts agree that President Trump is wrong about birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Trump Administration’s war on so-called “Sanctuary Cities” suffers yet another defeat in Court.

New York and several other states have filed an incredibly dubious lawsuit against the Republican’s new tax law.

A Federal Judge in California has largely rejected a Trump Administration challenge to a series of new laws in California designed to protect so-called “sanctuary cities.”

We may finally get a ruling applying the Excessive Fine Clause to the states and limiting the ability of police to confiscate property.

Some recommended reading.

The Trump Administration is declining to defend the Affordable Care Act in Court, arguing that the individual mandate is now unconstitutional because the tax penalty has been eliminated.