Outside the Beltway

Chief Justice Roberts is the only person who gets to say who sits on the FISA Court.

On the whole, a complete victory for advocates of same-sex marriage today at the Supreme Court.

A big week at the Supreme Court.

The Judicial Confirmation process needs to be fixed.

The D.C. Circuit now has four vacancies out of eleven seats.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on another big case.

The nation’s capitol is closed in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy. But the Supreme Court will be reporting for duty.

If you can name at least one of these people, you know more than two-thirds of your fellow citizens.

Antonin Scalia says Supreme Court justices have a collegial relationship and make decisions based on legal philosophy, not politics.

The PPACA, the fight over it, and the Sibelius ruling all underscore this fact.

Supreme Court watchers have been speculating since Sunday night about who might have leaked confidential court information to the press.

There’s very little evidence or logic to support the attacks coming from the right against Chief Justice Roberts.

A new report will likely add fuel to the fire of conservative outrage over Chief Justice Roberts’ decision to uphold the PPACA.

One part of the Supreme Court’s PPACA ruling has not received a lot of attention, but it has the potential to have a lot of impact in the future.

Is there a logical flaw in the way Chief Justice Roberts addressed the tax issue in his opinion? Not really.

In his ruling on the ObamaCare cases, Chief Justices Roberts reached back to a judicial philosophy with roots in men like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Felix Frankfurter.

There is another explanation for the sometimes confusing nature of the dissent in the ObamaCare case.

Chief Justice Roberts sided with a majority in upholding the individual mandate and, indeed, all but some trivial portions of the Affordable Care Act.

Today, the Supreme Court decided that mandatory life sentences for juveniles violate the 8th Amendment.

As of today, there are 75 vacant Federal Judgeships, including one that has been open for seven years.

Is the Supreme Court risking it’s legitimacy if it strikes down the individual mandate?

This week’s hearings in the Supreme Court caught many proponents of the Affordable Care Act off guard.