Outside the Beltway

Donald Trump’s increasingly confrontational rhetoric regarding North Korea is leading to similar rhetoric from the DPRK, and concern among top diplomats.

Judge Gorsuch is now Justice Gorsuch and it’s time to hit the ground running.

After a prolonged vacancy and a bitterly partisan confirmation process, Neil Gorsuch has been confirmed to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Next week’s big news is likely to be the Senate’s vote to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, which could mean invocation of the so-called ‘nuclear option’ by Senate Republicans.

Let the games begin.

Day One of the questioning of Judge Neil Gorsuch went very well, and it suggests that his path to confirmation is basically clear of serious obstacles.

There were 111.3 million people tuned into the Super Bowl on Sunday, slightly lower than last year.

With a relatively smooth announcement, Donald Trump has named a solid and qualified conservative who will likely be confirmed to the nation’s highest court.

President Trump hinted today that he’s likely to name his Supreme Court choice next week, and the list to appears have narrowed to three men.

Depending on what state you live in, taking a picture of your ballot and yourself on Election Day may or may not be legal.

A golf legend passes away.

Speeches by the wife and kids are supposed to be the easy part of a convention. If you mess that up, you truly are an amateur.

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

Donald Trump is motivating people! The problem for Republicans is that he’s motivating them to become citizens so they can vote against him and, potentially, other Republicans.

If reports today are accurate, one of the great N.F.L. careers will come to an end this week.

Another late football great has been diagnosed with a brain disease directly connected to the game they played.

The economy is booming. Except where it’s not.

Blaming political opponents for criminal acts they clearly didn’t commit or advocate isn’t a political argument, it’s demagoguery.

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

A gunman is holed up in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs after shooting multiple people, but it’s unclear what if any motive may be involved in the shooting.

Rand Paul is promising to filibuster the budget deal when it gets to the Senate, but it’s extremely unlikely he’ll be able to do anything but delay the inevitable.

Vice-President Biden dropped another hint that suggests he might not be up to running for President.

The F.B.I. seems to be looking in to just how secure. Hillary Clinton’s private email server was while she was Secretary of State.

Low costs and regulatory barriers are attracting people to red states–thus turning them purple and blue.

Lincoln Chafee began his bizarre run for the Presidency in the strangest way possible.

Beau Biden, the former attorney general of Delaware and son of Vice President Joe Biden, has died of brain cancer at the age of 46.

Robert Gates, the former Defense Secretary who now serves as head of the Boy Scouts Of America, has called for an end to that organizations ban on gay Scout Leaders.

The scandal that will make everyone forget about Benghazi.

TSA abuse stories had kind of disappeared from the news, but they’re back now in a big way.

Nebraska and Oklahoma are suing Colorado over the Centennial State’s decision to legalize marijuana, but they don’t seem to have much of a case.

The U.S. Government is looking for lawyers willing to work for free.

Columbus, Philadelphia, or New York City (well, Brooklyn really)?

In addition to gains at the national level and in Governor’s races, the GOP also saw more gains in state legislatures around the country.

The Fourth and Fifth Amendments do not prevent the police from compelling you to unlock your phone if you used fingerprint scan technology to lock it, Virginia Judge has ruled.

States may not add to Federal requirements for voter registration, the Court rules. Which makes perfect sense.

Two states and the nation’s capital could have legal marijuana after Tuesday’s elections.

Lawsuits against the theater where 12 people were murdered in 2012 may go forward.

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

Ticket collectors at Southwest Airlines are our first line of defense.

Another step closer to the Supreme Court.

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

Another area where the law has yet to catch up to technology.

Apparently, the EPA needs to start environmental cleanup a little closer to home.