California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide, making California the fifth state to legalize the practice and possibly giving real political momentum to the Right To Die movement.
The marriage equality issue is resolved, but that doesn’t mean the Supreme Court won’t have a lot of high profile cases on its docket over the next eight months.
The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.
A Federal Appeals Court has upheld a 1949 law that bars protesters from the property around the Supreme Court building. This seems inconsistent with the Court’s recent First Amendment jurisprudence.
A reporter and cameraman for a local television station were killed, and a third person wounded, live on the air this morning.
While “fundamentals” will have more impact on choosing our next president than what happens on the campaign trail, the race itself is important.
Taxes on wine, beer, and spirits vary wildly from state-to-state and even within each state.
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.
The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the U.S. Constitution contains a right to same-sex marriage.
The era of legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act is over.
A Federal Appeals Court In Washington has ruled that the military tribunal convictions of one group of Guantanamo Bay detainees was unconstitutional.
Before the end of the month, the Supreme Court could issue a ruling that ends subsidies for the vast majority of people who bought insurance under the PPACA, and the political battles are already starting.
In a setback for the gun rights movement, the Supreme Court has let stand a San Francisco law that places tough restrictions on handgun ownership.
The agency that runs Washington D.C.’s mass transit has banned all political ads after Pamela Gellar attempted to run an advertisement featuring a drawing of Mohammed.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer suggests that his fellow Congressmen and Senators are underpaid at $174,000 per year.
A Second Amendment victory in the District of Columbia,
A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that the N.S.A.’s data mining program is illegal, but its ruling may not have a very big impact.
As oral argument in the Supreme Court gets closer, a new poll finds public support for same-sex marriage at it’s highest level yet.
The Justice Department will not pursue contempt charges against Lois Lerner because it has determined that she did not waive her rights under the Fifth Amendment.
We’re down to debating whether bigots should have to sell cakes to gay people.
Once again, the Supreme Court appears to be sharply divided on the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
A Federal Judge has issued a temporary halt to the Obama Administration’s deferred deportation program, but appeals can be expected.
By refusing to stay the legalization of same-sex marriage in Alabama, the Supreme Court has sent the strongest signal yet that it is ready to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.
ISIS owns more territory than it did when the US bombing campaign began.
The two decade long argument over same-sex marriage appears headed for its final legal showdown.
In the end, the Tea Party challenge to John Boehner was a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
An entirely unsurprising decision from Federal Prosecutors in Washington, D.C.
More interesting developments from the Supreme Court on what has been one of the biggest legal stories of 2014.
The budget bill Congress set to pass Congress would effectively reverse the will of the voters of Washington, D.C., who just voted to legalize marijuana.
The House of Representatives has filed its lawsuit against the President. As expected, it doesn’t amount to much.
For better or worse, Marion Barry was a fixture in D.C. politics for much of the 40 year period of home rule that began in 1975.
The process that seems likely to lead to a Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage has begun.
Somewhat surprisingly, the Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of a case that could completely gut the financial structure of the Affordable Care Act.
Big victories for advocates of marijuana legalization.
Two states and the nation’s capital could have legal marijuana after Tuesday’s elections.
A Federal Judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by Tea Party groups over the IRS targeting scandal.
New York State’s gun law takes rights away from nearly 35,000 people without any due process whatsoever.
The Roberts court has been very good on First Amendment issues, but it needs to address the First Amendment issue right outside its front windows.
A national sandwich chain makes its employees sign a very restrictive covenant not to compete. It’s probably not enforceable.
A District of Columbia Judge has ruled that photographs of women taken in public do not violate the law.
By failing to act, the Supreme Court has effectively legalized same-sex marriage in eleven more states.
The security lapses at the Secret Service just continue to mount.
A legal setback for the Affordable Care Act, but the important arguments on this issue lie in higher courts.
The Supreme Court has issued a stay that will allow changes to Ohio’s early voting law to remain in effect for this year’s election. That was the correct decision.
Justice Ginsburg had some interesting things to say about the same-sex marriage cases headed to the Supreme Court.
