Outside the Beltway

Could John Hinckley, Jr. face murder charges 30 years after his attempted assassination of President Reagan?

Another Obamacare case is heading to the Supreme Court, but it’s unclear if they’ll agree to hear it, or when they’d hear it if they did.

A Federal Appeals Court has rejected a challenge to Obamacare based on a somewhat obscure provision of the Constitution.

In a logical extension of the Supreme Court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller, a Federal Judge has struck down D.C.’s law barring people from carrying handguns in public.

Contradictory rulings from two Federal Courts of Appeal show that statutory construction isn’t a simple thing.

My latest collaboration with Butch Bracknell, “Ahmed Abu Khattala and the Miranda-Rights Question,” has posted in The National Interest.

A Federal Appeals Court has struck down a D.C. law requiring tour guides to get a license and pass a test.

The justice system works, there’s no need to scrap it.

House Republicans go to war against marijuana in the District of Columbia

Ahmed Abu Kattalah, the alleged ringleader of the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, has been arrested.

Obsessing over what a politician believed in the past accomplishes nothing.

How the richest man in the world quickly changed the education curriculum in 45 states.

And Pennsylvania makes it 19.

The Democrats have a big advantage in the Electoral College, at least for now.

Crony capitalism in The Sooner State.

Wisconsin recently became the third state to criminalize revenge porn. Why is it still legal in the other 47?

New York has joined nine other states and the District of Columbia to vote to for an Electoral College bypass.

The Second Amendment isn’t broken, and you don’t fix things that aren’t broken.

Despite the fact that she asserted her right against self-incrimination, a House Committee has voted to hold Lois Lerner in contempt for refusing to testify.

Fifth Amendment? They don’t need no Fifth Amendment, apparently.

If something is going to be done about an out of control National Security State, it’ll be because the American people demand it.

Another Circuit Court finds that the Second Amendment protects a right to carry a weapon in public.

Another victory for marriage equality. This time from the state that gave us the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on interracial marriage.

About 1,000 same-sex couples married in Utah before the Supreme Court stay find themselves in an odd legal limbo.

For the time being at least, same-sex marriage is once again banned in Utah.

An excellent argument for immigration reform can be found in the case of one Californian named Sergio Garcia.

A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.

The year that will soon ended will go down in history as the year that the same-sex marriage debate changed forever.

A victory for same-sex marriage in an unlikely place.

A 17th state legalizes gay marriage. There’s no turning back.

Does a determination that NSA data collection practices are likely unconstitutional mean that Edward Snowden’s actions were, in some sense, justified?

A potentially big legal setback for a big National Security Agency program.

It wasn’t a Thermonuclear move, more like something the size of Hiroshima, but today the Senate took an historic move nonetheless.

After the GOP blocked a series of Obama judicial nominees, Democrats are again threatening to go nuclear on filibuster reform.

A second Federal Court of Appeals in a week in two weeks has ruled the PPACA’s birth control mandate is unconstitutional.

The state where the same-sex marriage battle began is just days away from legalizing same-sex marriage.