Outside the Beltway

The GOP Senate Caucus seems to be split on whether or not to reinstate the filibuster for Presidential and Judicial appointments.

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

Texas has joined with 16 other states in a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the President’s executive action on immigration. At first glance, it doesn’t appear to have much legal merit.

It’s an old story. Republican leadership wants to avoid a government shutdown, but the hard core conservatives want a fight, this time over the President’s immigration action. We have a week to see how it unfolds.

The abrupt departure of Chuck Hagel says much more about Administration policy than it does about Chuck Hagel.

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

A popular idea that does nothing useful while simultaneously violating the Constitution.

Voter Turnout was lower this year than in any midterm since the one held eleven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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.

The GOP added to its majority in the House, giving it the biggest majority it has had since Truman was President.

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

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

The die is cast.

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

While the battle for the Senate remains up in the air, the Republican majority in the House remains secure.

The security lapses at the Secret Service just continue to mount.

Politics, the law, culture, and a very old language collide.

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 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

It wasn’t the Democrats.

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

Another step closer to the Supreme Court.

Assuming it accepts the appeal, Utah is giving the Supreme Court its high profile case for the October 2015 Term.

What could possibly go wrong?

The Supreme Court’s next term doesn’t start for three months, but it’s becoming clear that the Justices will have to deal with marriage equality when it does.

A big step forward for the challenge to state-based bans on same-sex marriage.

Yet more adventures in bad records retention policy at the IRS.

Some Republicans apparently think the key to their future lies in the past.

The people are ready. Is the Supreme Court?

On of the last surviving members of the “Band of Brothers” does it again.

A 13 month string of legal victories for marriage equality reaches Oregon.