Outside the Beltway

More interesting developments from the Supreme Court on what has been one of the biggest legal stories of 2014.

Some on the left are suggesting Democrats should write off the South for the foreseeable future, but that would be as foolish as Republicans assuming that their dominance in the region will last as long as Democratic dominance did in the century after the Civil War.

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

How will Republicans react if, as many expect, the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage across the nation?

Another round of election losses is leading Democrats to contemplate the direction they should take going forward.

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

Same-sex marriage advanced in Kansas and South Carolina yesterday, and will soon be law in Montana, but the Supreme Court is what matters now,

Mike Huckabee seems to be making the moves necessary to run for President again, For reasons only he can understand.

Support for legalizing marijuana continues to grow slowly but surely.

There’s more to life than politics. Unfortunately, there are many Americans who don’t seem to recognize that fact.

An unsurprising ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that only seems to bring closer the day when same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide.

Tuesday’s Republican wave didn’t change the fundamentals.

Big victories for advocates of marijuana legalization.

The City of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho will not force two Christian ministers to open their wedding chapel business to same-sex wedding ceremonies.

A collision between marriage equality and religious liberty, but it seems clear that religious liberty should win this one.

The Supreme Court’s expansion of same-sex marriage seems to be sitting well with the American public.

A not surprising outcome to a move that have had motives entirely unconnected to litigation.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has made an incredibly weak argument in favor of his state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

And Alaska makes 30.

Bill Scher examines “How Republicans Lost the Culture War.”

Mike Huckabee is threatening to leave the GOP if the party backs down on same-sex marriage. He’s bluffing.

In the space of one week, we’ve gone from 19 states that recognize same-sex marriage to 29. Soon, it will be 35.

Two more states are added to the list, with another three likely not far behind.

The Supreme Court has given the GOP a way out of a battle that they are going to lose anyway.

The die is cast.

By failing to act, the Supreme Court has effectively legalized same-sex marriage in eleven more states.

Opponents of marriage equality clearly don’t like the idea of a “big tent” in the GOP on the issue.

Justice Ginsburg had some interesting things to say about the same-sex marriage cases headed to the Supreme Court.

Another Federal appellate Court has struck down state law bans on same-sex marriage, but the only thing that matters now is the Supreme Court.

A lower court judge has upheld the Louisiana Constitution’s limitation of marriage to “one man and one woman.”

A trial court judge in Tennessee is the first jurist since the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Windsor to uphold a ban on same-sex marriage

Tea Party backed candidates may have lost most of the GOP primary battles, but they’ve won the war for control of the Republican agenda.

Once something that generally benefited Republicans, social issues are now becoming a wedge issue for Democrats.

Another Circuit Court of Appeals has weighed in on the marriage equality debate.