Outside the Beltway

Closing arguments start today and a verdict and possible sentencing could come this week.

The ball is now in Merrick Garland’s court.

Another 6-3 decision along ideological lines.

Key posts across the government remain unfilled.

The right to worship trumps the public’s health.

A bunch of mysteriously sealed filings in Federal Court in D.C. could mean that Robert Mueller has already subpoenaed the President.

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in the challenge to President Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban. It didn’t appear to go well for the challengers.

The Supreme Court at its best and therefore its most frustrating.

The Clinton campaign probably thought the email story was behind them. The new report from the State Department’s Inspector General shows just how wrong they were about that.

According to some reports, President Obama may be about to make an end run around Congressional inaction on immigration reform.

Hobby Lobby Is an important decision, but it’s one that the Supreme Court handed down a week earlier that will have the widest impact.

The Obama Administration’s aggressive pursuit of leaks is threatening freedom of the press.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 authorizes the President the authority to indefinitely detain persons, even American citizens arrested on American soil, without trial because they allegedly support the enemy.