Outside the Beltway

The Obama campaign is challenging an Ohio law that gives members of the military three extra days to vote. They have a very persuasive argument.

While the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United has been blamed for the massive increase in money in this year’s campaign, it really wasn’t the culprit.

The Koch brothers will spend more money in this election cycle than the entire McCain campaign did in 2008.

Opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United continue to miss the point of what the case was really about.

There’s very little evidence or logic to support the attacks coming from the right against Chief Justice Roberts.

In advance of tomorrow’s ruling, some pundits on the left are displaying some very odd views on the role of the law in American politics.

An unsurprising decision from the Supreme Court.

We don’t know what the Supreme Court will have to say about the Affordable Care Act, but their decision is already being attacked.

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

What lessons can we draw from the Wisconsin Recall?

Is the Supreme Court risking it’s legitimacy if it strikes down the individual mandate?

Starting tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court dives into the most significant case that has been before it in many years.

Billionaires have been free to donate as much money as they want to activist groups since the dawn of the Republic.

An odd meme’s developing that Mitt Romney’s campaign is in financial trouble.

The Obama Campaign is being criticized for agreeing to play the SuperPAC game like everyone else does.

Virtually everything Stephen Colbert is doing was legal before Citizens United.

Once again, the punditocracy is bemoaning the rise of so-called “negative campaigning.”

Stephen Colbert’s super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, has raised a little over a million dollars.

Some questions for opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United.

More in common than they might think.

A new set of proposed Constitutional Amendments reveals that many people still don’t understand what Citizens United was about.

Are America’s political parties become irrelevant?

Another potential problem for the Cain campaign.

Is money the only thing that matters in post-Citizens United American politics?

The health care battle is formally joined in the Supreme Court.

Will 2012 be the Republican version of the 2008 race between President Obama and Hillary Clinton?

Although he didn’t get the words quite right yesterday, Mitt Romney was exactly right about corporations.

The Obama campaign is stressing that 98 percent of its donations were from little guys contributing $250 or less. But 40 percent of the money came from a handful of major donors.

Another major campaign finance case from the Supreme Court.

The next shoe has dropped in the battle between campaign finance laws and the 1st Amendment.

Stephen Colbert has been running an ongoing shtick in which he’s trying to start a political action committee, gets letters from his Viacom bosses poo-pooing the idea, and then inviting his lawyer on to explain ways to get around these concerns.

Public disclosure of campaign contributions makes it easier for incumbents to pressure backers of their opponent.

Sometimes the most sensible result can be the hardest to reach. This isn’t one of those times.

New York Times writer Adam Liptak discovers that a Supreme Court decision protecting “corporate speech” might not be a bad thing considering that he works for a corporation.

Contrary to current conservative talking points, Net Neutrality is not a nefarious government scheme to takeover the Internet, but is aimed to address a real problem. Like most ideas that involve the government, though, it doesn’t really address the real source of the problem; not enough freedom

Justice Alito said recently he won’t be attending the next State of the Union address. Sounds like a good idea to me.

Citizens United really wasn’t that big a deal.

Thanks to a united Republican Caucus, the Senate failed to take up a deeply flawed campaign finance “reform” bill.

Not surprisingly, American’s partisan views on the Supreme Court are pretty much wrong.

Not surprisingly, Elena Kagan finished her testimony without giving any real ammunition to the Republicans.

Elena Kagan’s interest in vigorous and open confirmation hearings ended roughly the moment she was sworn in by the Senate Judiciary Committee.