Outside the Beltway

California’s legislature has approved a bill that would legalize physician assisted suicide in the nation’s largest state.

A Federal Judge has ruled that part of a lawsuit filed by the House of Representatives can go forward, but the legal battle is far from over.

While new information seems to come out on a daily basis, Hillary Clinton would rather that everyone think that her private email server wasn’t really a very big deal.

Hillary Clinton has turned over her private email server in the wake of reports about highly classified information in her email.

A Federal Appeals Court has dealt a setback to Texas in the battle over its Voter ID Law.

The F.B.I. seems to be looking in to just how secure. Hillary Clinton’s private email server was while she was Secretary of State.

After 30 years in prison, Jonathan Pollard will be released later this year.

Reports are circulating that the Obama Administration is considering releasing Jonathan Pollard, and many are seeing it as an effort to placate Israel in the wake of the Iran deal.

Did Hillary Clinton mishandle classified information while Secretary of State? Two Inspectors General want to find out.

Dylann Roof has been indicted in Federal Court for completely unnecessary reasons.

Relying on a particularly strained and incredulous legal analysis, the EEOC has ruled that laws against discrimination based on gender also bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.

He definitely wouldn’t appreciate it, but in some sense you can thank Robert Bork for the Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges.

There are still legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act pending after King v. Burwell, but they aren’t quite as substantial as what we’ve seen over the last five years.

Andrew Sullivan, perhaps the man most responsible for putting the notion of marriage equality into the national debate, has come out of his blogging retirement to weigh in on yesterday’s historic ruling.

The Supreme Court has issued a ruling whose roots can be found in case law going back half a century.

The Administration announced changes to the way the government handles hostage situations, but it really doesn’t amount to much.

Was this simply ordinary intelligence collection? Or something more insidious?

Cardinals executives were doing a little more than just stealing signs, apparently.

A Federal Appeals Court In Washington has ruled that the military tribunal convictions of one group of Guantanamo Bay detainees was unconstitutional.

So much for freedom of speech.

FIFA’s President surprised everyone today by resigning, but he’s likely to stay in power for as long as another ten months.

Several of the top representatives of soccer’s governing body have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in New York.

The Cleveland Police Department has agreed to submit to significant monitoring in the wake of a damning Justice Department investigation.

A Cleveland police officer has been acquitted of manslaughter and other charges in a case that resulted in the death of two African-American individuals.

President Obama is taking steps to reduce police militarization, but there’s much more that needs to be done.

Hillary Clinton told supporters she’d require Supreme Court nominees to pledge to overturn Citizens United, a decision she completely misrepresented.

The Baltimore Police Department will finally be under the Federal microscope. But it took the death of Freddie Gray for it happen.

The former CIA Director received no jail time and a nuisance-level fine in exchange for a guilty plea to espionage charges.

An elite FBI Forensics unit gave flawed and false testimony in cases over a period that lasted more than 20 years.

The confirmation of a new Attorney General has been held up nearly six months for what amounts to no legitimate reason.

The parents of the youngest victim of the Boston Marathon bombing argue that his killer should be spared from the death penalty.

Thanks to one civilian with a camera, a police officer is facing charges in what appears to clearly be an improper shooting.

As expected, New Jersey’s senior Senator has been indicted.

The Justice Department will not pursue contempt charges against Lois Lerner because it has determined that she did not waive her rights under the Fifth Amendment.

A powerful Democratic Senator looks like he’s about to be in a whole lot of trouble.

A new Justice Department report has found widespread racial bias in the Ferguson Police Department, but it’s a problem that goes far beyond one Missouri suburb.

Unsurprisingly, Darren Wilson will not face federal charges in connection with the shooting of Michael Brown.

The most widely honored General from the Iraq and Afghanistan War has plead guilty to sharing classified information with his mistress.

Nearly three years to the day after it started, the George Zimmerman case is essentially over.

A Federal Judge has issued a temporary halt to the Obama Administration’s deferred deportation program, but appeals can be expected.

Not surprisingly, the Federal investigation of the Michael Brown shooting is ending much like the state investigation did.

David Petraeus provided highly classified secrets to his mistress. Will he be charged?

New details in the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice raise more questions.

A Federal Judge has dismissed the first lawsuit filed against President Obama’s immigration “executive action.”

The Army’s investigation of the disappearance five years ago of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has been referred to a top General, who will decide if a court martial should be convened.

Nebraska and Oklahoma are suing Colorado over the Centennial State’s decision to legalize marijuana, but they don’t seem to have much of a case.

A Federal Judge has issued a ruling that sort of says that President Obama’s Immigration action is unconstitutional. Except it’s poorly reasoned, and apparently not legally binding on anyone.

Vice-President Cheney’s amoral defense of torture has come to define how most conservatives view the issue, and that’s a problem.

The Justice Department won’t force James Risen to testify in a legal investigation, but faces a new choice in a different case.

The budget bill Congress set to pass Congress would effectively reverse the will of the voters of Washington, D.C., who just voted to legalize marijuana.