Outside the Beltway

Once again, President Trump can’t help but make something meant to recognize real American heroes all about himself.

Controversial Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke has resigned and will reportedly go to work for Donald Trump.

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next week in an important First Amendment case.

Congress is trying to re-write a law that the Supreme Court found unconstitutional in June. Have they succeeded?

Outgoing Senator Jim Webb is making another attempt at passing the Stolen Valor Act, deemed unconstitutional last year by the US Supreme Court.

Congress seems to have gotten the message the Supreme Court sent last month about the Stolen Valor Act.

The US Supreme Court has struck down the Stolen Valor Act, which made it a federal crime to lie about military honors, on free speech grounds.

With two weeks left in June, the Supreme Court is likely to be in the news quite a lot.

Why should lying about having served in combat or been awarded a medal for valor should be legally different from lying about athletic prowess in high school, the number of sexual partners you’ve had, or the size of one’s sex organs?

The Supreme Court will have another interesting First Amendment case on its docket this Term.

Xavier Alvarez lied about having been awarded the Medal Of Honor. Should that be a crime? The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals says no, and they’re right.

It has never been illegal to wear military medals and uniforms to costume parties or while portraying a soldier in a movie.

The 9th Circuit yesterday ruled that Stolen Valor laws violate the 1st Amendment and that there is a limited right to lie.