Outside the Beltway

What you think about the events in Ferguson depends quite a lot on whether you’re black or white.

17-year veteran of the LAPD says, “If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me.”

We should not tolerate them acting otherwise.

The situation in Ferguson, Missouri isn’t calming down.

The shooting of Michael Brown is just another example of an ongoing problem.

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

A major voting rights ruling out of North Carolina.

Former Reagan speechwriter and gun control activist Jim Brady’s death has been ruled a homicide. No, there was no foul play involved—at least not recently.

Could John Hinckley, Jr. face murder charges 30 years after his attempted assassination of President Reagan?

A big setback for Mississippi’s erstwhile Tea Party candidate for Senate.

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

No, it’s not over yet.

Viet Xuan Luong pins on a brigadier general’s star today, becoming the first Vietnamese-American officer to achieve that rank.

In some sense, justice has prevailed.

Another Obamacare case is heading to the Supreme Court, but it’s unclear if they’ll agree to hear it, or when they’d hear it if they did.

Your tax dollars, not at work.

The trial of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife opened yesterday, and it sounded more like a soap opera than a legal proceeding.

A Federal Appeals Court has rejected a challenge to Obamacare based on a somewhat obscure provision of the Constitution.

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

In a logical extension of the Supreme Court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller, a Federal Judge has struck down D.C.’s law barring people from carrying handguns in public.

The Grey Lady sees the light on a major part of the War On Drugs.

Contradictory rulings from two Federal Courts of Appeal show that statutory construction isn’t a simple thing.

Good intentions, bad results.

Another step closer to the Supreme Court.

A lot of Republicans dislike the President enough to think that he should be removed from office, but will that make impeachment more likely to happen?

A Silicon Valley businessman says he has enough signatures to get it on the ballot, but the plan to break California up into six states is most assuredly going nowhere.

A case pending in Federal Court in Washington, D.C. could pose new legal problems for the Affordable Care Act

Jose Antonio Vargas was brought to the U.S. at the age of 12 and never left. Now, some are suggesting he should be deported as soon as possible.

Just in time for the midterms, Todd Akin is back to remind voters of the GOP’s problems with female voters.

To some extent, we seem to be becoming overprotective.

John Boehner’s latest political move is designed mostly to appease the GOP base, but it’s likely a non-starter from a legal point of view.

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

Judging by the early results, the so-called “Right To Be Forgotten” recently created by Europe’s highest court is creating more problems than it will solve.

The law’s insane over-reaction to teen “sexting” has gotten even more insane in one Virginia County.