Outside the Beltway

The central question remains unresolved.

Where do we draw the line?

Two rulings greatly expand the ability to evade the law for on Free Exercise grounds.

A series of scandals at Oxfam and other charitable organizations raise troubling questions.

Previewing the next term of the Supreme Court, which starts today.

Judge Gorsuch is now Justice Gorsuch and it’s time to hit the ground running.

Day One of the questioning of Judge Neil Gorsuch went very well, and it suggests that his path to confirmation is basically clear of serious obstacles.

Mississippi tried to provide special protection to opponents of same-sex marriage and transgender rights. A Federal District Court Judge, properly, finds the law to be unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court won’t hear the appeal of a pharmacist who objects to providing the ‘morning after’ pill.

Faced with the prospect of a 4-4 tie, the Supreme Court instead came up with a decision on the PPACA’s birth control mandate that didn’t decide anything.

The Supreme Court appeared deadlocked during oral argument in the latest case dealing with the PPACA’s contraceptive coverage mandates.

Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee recently kept company with a very disturbing religious leader.

The Supreme Court is diving back into the debate over the PPACA’s birth control coverage mandate.

The marriage equality issue is resolved, but that doesn’t mean the Supreme Court won’t have a lot of high profile cases on its docket over the next eight months.

Thanks mostly to Republicans unhappy with the Court’s decisions on same-sex marriage and the Affordable Care Act, public disapproval of the Supreme Court is nearing a new high.

Public opinion on the Supreme Court has declined significantly, largely because Republicans don’t like the Supreme Court very much right now.

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.

The era of legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act is over.

Starting tomorrow, we can expect to see the Supreme Court hand down decisions in some of its most high profile cases. Here’s a preview.

A woman discharged from the Marine Corps for violating multiple direct orders is fighting to the highest military court.

Thwarted by the legislature, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal used his executive power to take action that seems directed more toward evangelicals in Iowa than anything happening in his home state.

Indiana’s RFRA will be amended to address most of the concerns of its opponents. That counts as a victory.

We’re down to debating whether bigots should have to sell cakes to gay people.

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

Somewhat surprisingly, the Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of a case that could completely gut the financial structure of the Affordable Care Act.

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.

Someone needs to remind the City of Houston that the First Amendment applies to them.

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

Once again, we are reminded that the fact that people feel strongly about an issue does not mean it’s one that will cause them to get out and vote.

The Hobby Lobby decision could end up motivating women voters to turn out to vote against Republicans in the fall.

Later today, President Obama will sign an Executive Order barring Federal Contractors from discrimination based on sexual orientation. But that’s not even the most controversial part for some conservatives.

It seems improbable, but the national landscape on same-sex marriage is changing so quickly that even the Republican Party may find itself changing faster than some might think.

It appears that the GOP still has a problem communicating with women.

Much of the criticism of Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United before it, is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those decisions stand for.

Some people on the left are still trying to convince Ruth Bader Ginsburg that she needs to just step out on the ice floe already.

Political irony, perhaps, but probably less than meets the eye.

There are legitimate issues regarding Presidential overreach and separation of powers that President Obama’s actions while in office have raised. But none of that will be discussed in our hyperpartisan political culture.

Hobby Lobby Is an important decision, but it’s one that the Supreme Court handed down a week earlier that will have the widest impact.

Is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act itself an unconstitutional Establishment of Religion barred by the First Amendment? There’s a compelling argument that it is.

The Supreme Court has limited the ability of public employee unions to force people to join their ranks.

Hobby Lobby wins, but it’s unclear just how far this opinion will go.

The Supreme Court has saved the biggest case of the term for its last day.

We’ve seen a notable number of 9-0 Supreme Court decisions this term, but that doesn’t mean that the side that lost was making an extreme or meritless argument.

A committee of journalists who work in the “traditional” media has once again denied press credentials to SCOTUSBlog.

A Republican Congressman from Colorado who is running for the Senate has a very good idea.

It’s that time of year again.