Outside the Beltway

A 13 month string of legal victories for marriage equality reaches Oregon.

Another victory for marriage equality.

A pretty clear violation of the First Amendment.

The NBA wants to get rid of Donald Sterling’s estranged wife, too.

Is the GOP headed down a road that leads to yet another doomed impeachment and trial?

The Supreme Court has again ruled that prayers that open legislative sessions are not unconstitutional.

General Motors is headed back to court.

Innocent men have been put to death on the orders of the state.

A good idea, but do the ends justify the means?

A legal setback for Voter ID laws in Wisconsin.

Today’s oral argument before the Supreme Court on the issue of police searches of cell phones and smartphones left much up in the air.

One of the cases that the Supreme Court accepted for review today presents a rather unique legal question:

The Justice Department thinks police should be able to search the smart phones of anyone arrested for anything.

Contrary to popular belief, eyewitness testimony is often quite unreliable.

Continuing the discussion from earlier this week on hate crimes.

The Court gets the result right, but their reasoning will make things much more difficult for courts, defendants, and victims.

Republicans attack an attorney for doing his job. So much for that whole “constitutional conservative” thing, I guess.

Yesterday the Supreme Court greatly expanded the circumstances under which police can rely on anonymous tips.

The Supreme Court may have just found a way to end the debate over Affirmative Action in education.

Perhaps some justice for the casualties in the War On Drugs

Does it really matter why Fraizer Glenn Miller murdered three people in Kansas?

Someone needs to give the Mayor of Warren, Michigan a lesson on what the First Amendment means.

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

If a decision by the Senate Press Gallery stands, SCOTUSBlog’s ability to cover the Supreme Court will be significantly restricted.

An unsurprising result in a lawsuit that never should have been filed

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

The Second Amendment isn’t broken, and you don’t fix things that aren’t broken.

Despite the fact that she asserted her right against self-incrimination, a House Committee has voted to hold Lois Lerner in contempt for refusing to testify.

An appeal declined, but an issue that remains outstanding.

President Obama has gotten more federal judges confirmed at every level than his predecessor had at this point.