Outside the Beltway

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.

At least on paper, Senate Democrats now have enough votes to block the Senate from voting on a resolution disapproving of the Iran Nuclear Deal.

A teenager in North Carolina is facing serious criminal charges in another absurd overreaction to teenager “sexting.”

The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.

The RNC wants Donald Trump to sign an oath that he will not run as a third-party candidate if he doesn’t win the Republican nomination.

Scott Walker and Chris Christie apparently think that the key to turning around their dying campaigns is to pander to the people supporting Donald Trump’s anti-immigration platform.

Thanks in part to a slow summer news cycle, the speculation about Vice-President Biden entering the race for President seems to be reaching a fever pitch.

The buffoonish billionaire is tapping into something real.

Recent polling has shown the American public to be highly skeptical, at beast, of the Iran Nuclear Deal. That may not be enough to kill it in Congress, though.

The current Republican primary polls are “measuring a unicorn electorate” yet effect the outcome of the race.

The Huffington Post announced today that they would not be covering Donald Trump in their politics section from this point forward. That’s the wrong thing to do.

Despite the clear language of the 14th Amendment, Texas is apparently refusing to issue birth certificates to some children born in the United States whose parents happen to be in the country illegally.

Donald Trump has gotten almost nothing but negative press since entering the race for President, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting him very much just yet.

The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to wade back into the thorny issue of race and higher education.

The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the U.S. Constitution contains a right to same-sex marriage.

A 19 year old from Indiana faces a quarter century as a registered sex offender because he met a girl who lied about her age.

A new Michigan law allows religious-affiliated adoption agencies to turn away parents for religious reasons, and it seems fairly obvious what the target is in this case.

Mitt Romney decided not to run in 2016 but he’s very much in the race.

Iowa Republicans may be a day away from putting the Iowa Straw Poll out of its, and our, misery.

The largely conservative state of Nebraska seems to be on the verge of repealing its law authorizing capital punishment.

Jeb Bush will not participate in this year’s version of the Iowa Straw Poll.

Two Republican candidates for President say that Republican elected officials should simply ignore the Supreme Court if it strikes down bans on same-sex marriage.

Ben Carson is running for President.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are talking about fundamentally changing what it means to be an American, and it’s a bad idea.

A sharply divided Court heard argument today on an issue that has sharply divided the nation.

Tomorrow promises to be an historic day at the Supreme Court, but it’s been a long legal, political, and social battle.

The scandal that will make everyone forget about Benghazi.

Ben Carson will be entering the race for President next month, but don’t pretend for a minute that he’s a serious candidate.

Another case of teenagers ‘sexting,’ another dumb overreaction by law enforcement.

Indiana is about to become the latest state to grants special rights to religious business owners.

Ben Carson doesn’t seem to know much about foreign policy or history. And he doesn’t belong on anyone’s list of serious Presidential candidates.

Alec MacGillis argues for Slate that “Veterans Should Pay Taxes Like Everyone Else.” I agree!

Wisconsin has become the 25th “right to work” state.

The two decade long argument over same-sex marriage appears headed for its final legal showdown.

Shortly after the new year, we could know whether or not the Supreme Court will issue a definitive ruling on same-sex marriage by the end of June.

Should a professor who says she “hates Republicans” keep her job?

The Supreme Court says that police who have a “reasonable” misunderstanding of the law can still pull you over.

The GOP donor class would like the 2016 race to be short and sweet, but that’s unlikely to happen.

The Supreme Court is set to decide if the state can deny a license plate with the Confederate flag design because it is “offensive.”

For the fourth time in three years, a Federal Court has ruled that Florida’s law requiring drug tests for welfare recipients is unconstitutional.

You’ve got your playoff College Football fans, as imperfect as it was inevitably going to be.

Clearly, the Romney campaign didn’t get the point of social media.

Fresh off his third statewide win in four years, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker appears to be getting ready to run for President.

An adviser close to Hillary Clinton is talking about expanding the Electoral College map in 2016, but even without such an expansion the GOP faces an uphill battle.

Every member of the Supreme Court graduated from an Ivy League Law School. That kind of homogeneity is not healthy.

The process that seems likely to lead to a Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage has begun.