Outside the Beltway

As of today, there are 75 vacant Federal Judgeships, including one that has been open for seven years.

Public opinion of the Supreme Court has declined in recent years. But It’s not because of anything the Court did.

The President seems to think the private sector is doing fine. He couldn’t possibly be more wrong.

Because, of course, the ends justify the means.

The case against Proposition 8 is headed to the Supreme Court.

New York’s Governor is proposing a change in the law that could spare thousands of people a year from an unnecessary trip through the legal system.

As societal attitudes change, what counts as an insult so bad you can sue someone over it also changes.

A Florida Judge has ordered George Zimmerman back to jail.

The John Edwards trial is over. This should be the end of the matter.

An unsurprising decision on the Defense of Marriage.

Did the Founding Fathers make it too hard to amend the Constitution? No, they didn’t.

Etan Patz went missing 34 years ago tomorrow morning. The mystery of his disappearance may have been solved today.

A story headlined “American Airlines Rejects Female Passenger Because Political Pro-Choice T-Shirt is ‘Inappropriate'” is going viral.

Apparently, pretended overpriced pomegranate juice is a magic healing elixir is more than the law will allow.

The Catholic Church has fired a legal shot across the bow of the Affordable Care Act.

A surprisingly short sentence in a case that caused a nationwide sensation.

Alan Dershowitz thinls the charges against George Zimmerman should be dropped. With due apologies to the good Professor, he’s wrong.

Innocent people have gone to jail, and some of them are still sitting there.

While the United States has some serious problems with policing, we’re not a police state.

All the available evidence suggest that the Occupy movement has fizzled away into virtual nothingness.

An object lesson in the problems with our intellectual property laws

Common Cause has filed a specious lawsuit alleging that the filibuster is unconstitutional.

Trayvon Martin’s autopsy shows injuries to his knuckles, which bolsters George Zimmerman’s claim that there was a fight, a Florida television station reports.

A man named Carlos killed a woman named Wanda Lopez. Texas executed a different man named Carlos for the crime.

The Germans are taking this austerity thing a little far: their police fired only 85 shots at humans last year.

Danny Lesh freely admits to stealing a bicycle–back from the thief who stole it from him.

Nicholas Katzenbach, a central figure in the civil rights fights of the 1960s, has died.

Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb isn’t as easy as most think, Jacques Hymans argues in the current Foreign Policy.

What seemed like a diplomatic success has begun to unravel very quickly.

The Solicitor General had another bad day in Court yesterday.

The attack appears to be based on long-standing animus and not revenge for Trayvon.

The Rule Of Law is incompatible with political rabble rousing

Another potential scandal in New Orleans.

John Edwards is a pathetic human being, but that doesn’t mean he’s necessarily a criminal.