Outside the Beltway

Who should have the final say on the law of the land?

The implications of modes of interpretation.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

More nonsense.

Overwhelmingly, legal experts agree that President Trump is wrong about birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment.

President Trump is now claiming he will end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants via Executive Order. He clearly lacks the authority to do this.

The Kavanaugh fight is just another indicator of our national divide.

Contrary to what many people have claimed, the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Hawaii did not overturn one of the most controversial decisions in its history.

A woman who was at the center of one of the most important Supreme Court cases in American history has died at the age of 75.

Some thoughts about why the president’s remarks on immigration are so problematic.

It’s time to stop honoring the symbols of a nation of racist traitors.

Marco Rubio is telling conservative Christians in Iowa and elsewhere what they want to hear on same-sex marriage. It just happens to be complete and utter nonsense.

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

Wherein I take the view that as our understanding of language changes, so too does our application of the Constiution.

The reaction of many of the GOP candidates to the decision in Obergefell v. Hodges is about what you’d expect, but there are a few interesting surprises.

After 200 years, Francis Scott Key’s most famous work may have outlived its usefulness..

The Supreme Court, subject to revision.

A major Constitutional ruling from the Supreme Court.

Unsurprisingly, the Department of Justice confirms that it supports Marbury v. Madison

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

Newt Gingrich gets his Civil War history very wrong.

Newt Gingirch ups the ante in his rhetorical assault on judicial independence.

Newt Gingrich’s ideas about the role of the judiciary are very dangerous.

Did you know there was another GOP debate last night? Well, you didn’t miss much.

Those who argue that tariff increases, and not slavery, were the key reason for secession have some basic problems with the historical sequence.

Reason’s Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie have a pretty amusing rejoinder to the Obama administration’s attempts to smear the anonymous funding of television ads opposed to their agenda in a video titled “Who is Publius? or, Who’s Afraid of Anonymous Political Speech?”

There isn’t as much GOP unity over the idea of changing America’s citizenship rules as you might think.

Senate Republicans want to rethink the 14th Amendment’s automatic citizenship for people born in the U.S.