Outside the Beltway

A custody case out of Texas raises issues about how to react to and treat a child who identifies as a gender different from their biological sex.

In what is hopefully the final review of the mater, an internal State Department view finds no wrongdoing with regard to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

After coming under fire for a decision designed primarily to benefit himself and his family, President Trump has decided to walk back the decision to hold the next G-7 Summit at one of his properties.

A Federal Court has struck down the President’s diversion of funds for his border wall.

In what seems to be clear violations of the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses, the President is seeking to enrich himself and his family,

Beto O’Rourke wants to use government policy to punish religious institutions that don’t recognize same-sex marriages.

The officer involved in the shooting death of a woman in Fort Worth, Texas has been charged with murder.

Another police shooting of an innocent African-American. This time in Fort Worth, Texas.

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is under criminal investigation by the same office he once headed as U.S. Attorney.

President Trump loses another lawsuit against his ongoing efforts to stonewall Congress.

Two associates of President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani were arrested on their way out of the country, and the question is what connection Giuliani may have to the reasons behind their arrest.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court held oral argument in a series of cases asking it to decide if existing civil rights laws cover discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

The White House is doubling down on its illegitimate stonewalling of valid Congressional document requests.

A Federal Judge rejected the President’s effort to block a New York City prosecutor from obtaining copies of his tax returns.

Late last week, a Federal Judge in California placed on hold a state law requiring candidates to provide copies of their tax returns.

The Supreme Court returns to work today with a significant number of high-profile cases on its docket.

After an emotional sentencing hearing that included an extraordinary display of mercy and forgiveness from her victim’s family, former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of ,murder in the death of Botham Jean, an innocent man who was murdered for the “crime” of being in his own apartment.

Congressman Chris Collins, an early supporter of President Trump’s, will be pleading guilty to insider trading charges.

The real crime is what’s legal.

California, joined by 22 other states and jurisdictions, is suing to block the Administration’s efforts to revoke the state’s waiver to impose tougher clean air regulations.

Late last week, a Federal Judge blocked a California law requiring candidates for President and other offices to make copies of their tax returns public.

Donald Trump is suing the District Attorney in Manhattan to stop him from getting copies of Trump’s tax returns.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a huge and historic loss in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

A wrongheaded solution for a legitimate problem.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

In a rebuke to traditional conservative views of Federalism, the Trump Administration intends to revoke California’s authority to set its own clean air standards,

While some Democrats are calling for the impeachment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on Capitol Hill aren’t nearly as eager to go down that road.

A Federal Appeals Court has reinstated an Emoluments Clause lawsuit against the President that had been dismissed nearly two years ago.

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren are pandering to the base.

The effort to bring Catholic Church officials to justice for their decades of criminal conspiracy and child abuse continues to move forward.

A new look at the allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh uncovers some new evidence.

The Trump Administration is considering banning flavored electronic cigarettes. This would be a a bad idea.

A Federal Judge in Virginia has found the terrorist watch list unconstitutional.

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has once again upheld a local ordinance banning assault weapons.

House Democrats are set to investigate the payoffs made to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election.

A wedding venue in Mississippi is citing religious beliefs in support of its decision not to allow an interracial couple to utilize their facilities.

Another nonsense ruling on an issue that doesn’t belong in court to begin with.

From the State of Alabama we get a perfect example of the reason why, at times, the law is an ass.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that states cannot punish electors who fail to follow the will of the majority of voters n their state or state laws purporting to direct how they should vote.

An Oklahoma state court Judge has handed down what many are hailing as a landmark ruling related to the opioid crisis, but there’s reason to be skeptical about his conclusions.

A Florida jury has convicted a man involved in an argument over a parking space of manslaughter, rejecting his attempt to invoke the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law

We may have the first known case of a crime committed in space.

Tom Brady tried to trademark the nickname “Tom Terrific.” It didn’t go so well.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent three weeks of cancer treatment earlier this summer. The second such treatment in a year, and the fourth in the last twenty years.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

A defense of a modest philosophy of judicial interpretation.

An incident this week in Arkansas is just the latest example of a depressing and dangerous trend.