Outside the Beltway

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

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

The Supreme Court has issued a stay that will allow changes to Ohio’s early voting law to remain in effect for this year’s election. That was the correct decision.

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.

A set back for opponents of Voter ID in Wisconsin.

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.

So far at least, there is no evidence that 2014 will be a “wave election.”

The numbers are shocking!

A major voting rights ruling out of North Carolina.

There is simply no evidence of the kind of in-person voter impersonation that Voter ID Laws were designed to prevent.

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.

If Hillary Clinton is going to have a serious challenge in 2016, the person who will do that has yet to emerge.

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.

Another area where the law has yet to catch up to technology.

Well this is a unique defense.

It turns out there was much less to that Scott Walker document dump than the press coverage claimed.

A New York Federal Judge has ruled that unvaccinated children can be forced to stay home during outbreaks.

As a legal matter, the new allegations against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker don’t amount to much. But, will they impact his bid for re-election.

The Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling that public school graduations in churches are unconstitutional.

A setback for supporters of Rand Paul in the Hawkeye State.

TNR makes the worst possible case for a proposition that’s almost certainly right.

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

Wisconsin’s Republican Governor isn’t very eager to talk about same-sex marriage these days.

Another legal victory for marriage equality.

Preserving the filibuster.

A prairie populist challenger for Hillary Clinton?

Yet another Federal Judge has struck down a state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

Once again, Rand Paul is challenging conservative orthodoxy.

A legal setback for Voter ID laws in Wisconsin.

The Democrats have a big advantage in the Electoral College, at least for now.

Continuing the discussion from earlier this week on hate crimes.

Wisconsin recently became the third state to criminalize revenge porn. Why is it still legal in the other 47?

New York has joined nine other states and the District of Columbia to vote to for an Electoral College bypass.

As Sarah Palin and the Tea Party turn on Paul Ryan, they are making apparent their own lack of relevance in the political process.

A pattern continues.

The votes are in. And the outcome is meaningless.

One of the dumbest rules in sports may mean that people in three cities can’t see their teams play this weekend.