Outside the Beltway

A setback for prosecutors in the Freddie Gray case.

The quadrennial fantasy of a brokered convention, which American politics has not seen since 1952, is rearing its head again, and it’s no more likely now than it was when we talked about this four years ago.

I am having a hard time seeing a system of districts based on eligible voters and not simply population.

The Justice Department has launched a widespread investigation into the operation of the Chicago Police Department in the wake of the murder of LaQuan McDonald.

Protests by students at Princeton are causing some people to finally pay attention to some inconvenient truths about America’s 28th President.

Five months after Charleston, Mississippi is still struggling to rid itself of symbols of the Confederacy.

Houston voters rejected a broad anti-discrimination law largely due to a campaign that focused almost exclusively on concerns about transgender rights.

Contrary to his claims, Donald Trump would not win the Latino vote if he were the nominee. In fact, it looks like he’d end up doing much, much worse.

Prosecutors in South Carolina announced that they will seek the death penalty for Charleston shooter Dylann Roof.

The longer this race goes on, the hard it becomes to deny the truth about Donald Trump.

A Federal Appeals Court has dealt a setback to Texas in the battle over its Voter ID Law.

Public opinion on the Supreme Court has declined significantly, largely because Republicans don’t like the Supreme Court very much right now.

Dylann Roof has been indicted in Federal Court for completely unnecessary reasons.

Relying on a particularly strained and incredulous legal analysis, the EEOC has ruled that laws against discrimination based on gender also bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Despite the clear language of the 14th Amendment, Texas is apparently refusing to issue birth certificates to some children born in the United States whose parents happen to be in the country illegally.

Finally.

He definitely wouldn’t appreciate it, but in some sense you can thank Robert Bork for the Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges.

SCOTUS has upheld the use of election commissions to draw Congressional district lines.

The Attorney General of Texas is responding to the Supreme Court’s marriage ruling by telling Clerk’s who issue marriage license that they are free to ignore the law.

The events of the past two weeks could allow the Republican Party to move forward.

Debating the proper role of the judiciary.

The people who continue to claim that the Confederate Flag is about anything other than hatred, racism, and a nation that celebrated slavery are lying to you and to themselves.

Good for her.

Andrew Sullivan, perhaps the man most responsible for putting the notion of marriage equality into the national debate, has come out of his blogging retirement to weigh in on yesterday’s historic ruling.

The Supreme Court has issued a ruling whose roots can be found in case law going back half a century.

The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the U.S. Constitution contains a right to same-sex marriage.

David Frum calls for several measures to reduce gun violence.

As Governor Haley pushes the South Carolina legislature to take the Confederate Flag down, the movement moves beyond the Palmetto State.

With notable exceptions, most of the Republican candidates for President are refusing to take a stand on the propriety of South Carolina flying the Confederate Flag. That’s called cowardice.

The murders in Charleston have revived a debate that should have been over a long time ago.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.

The Supreme Court ruled that states don’t have to grant license plates that display the Confederate flag. Their decision has the potential to seriously harm the First Amendment.

A black leader is running a billboard campaign to improve his community. Racism ensues.

The head of the Spokane NAACP has apparently been lying about her racial background, and that’s led to a whole other argument.

Being required to demonstrate competency in liberal arts to teach is racially discriminatory, a federal judge has ruled.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Muslim woman who was refused a job because of her hijab.

The Cleveland Police Department has agreed to submit to significant monitoring in the wake of a damning Justice Department investigation.

Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is continuing his absurd and dangerous war on the Supreme Court.

A Cleveland police officer has been acquitted of manslaughter and other charges in a case that resulted in the death of two African-American individuals.

If a new campaign succeeds, Harriet Tubman could replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

The Baltimore Police Department will finally be under the Federal microscope. But it took the death of Freddie Gray for it happen.

Two Republican candidates for President say that Republican elected officials should simply ignore the Supreme Court if it strikes down bans on same-sex marriage.

Two of Chris Christie’s closest aides were indicted in connection with the Birdgegate scandal today, a third plead guilty, and Christie’s Presidential ambitions are pretty much dead.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are talking about fundamentally changing what it means to be an American, and it’s a bad idea.

A sharply divided Court heard argument today on an issue that has sharply divided the nation.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is insightful and eloquent. He’s wrong in this instance.

Just over a week after a death at the hands of police that remains incredibly suspicious, Baltimore is the sight of violent riots.

Tomorrow promises to be an historic day at the Supreme Court, but it’s been a long legal, political, and social battle.

Thanks to one civilian with a camera, a police officer is facing charges in what appears to clearly be an improper shooting.

Rand Paul has been cozying up to social conservatives lately, but he risks alienating the people most likely to support his campaign for the White House.