Outside the Beltway

Did NBC’s David Gregory violate D.C. law on Sunday?

Could Romney win Ohio by ginning up Republican turnout and tamping down Democratic votes?

Equating opposition to the President with racism is absurd.

If you thought the War On Terror might be over, think again.

Mitt Romney is a deeply flawed candidate, but that doesn’t mean the President is any better.

The battle over Wisconsin’s public sector union reform continues.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

Hey GOP, Lt. Sulu has some questions for you.

..because apparently we can apply a modern definition of “arms” to the constitution, but not modern understandings of the word “citizens.”

My latest for World Policy Review, “Oversight or Not, Drones Are Here to Stay,” has posted.

Penn State was facing a four year suspension of its football program but worked out a less harsh punishment.

In his ruling on the ObamaCare cases, Chief Justices Roberts reached back to a judicial philosophy with roots in men like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Felix Frankfurter.

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”

Vetting, media bias, and a passing swipe at the war on terror.

We’re literally choosing locking up drug offenders over investing in our children.

Attorney General Eric Holder offered a somewhat alarming defense of the Administration’s policy on targeted killings.

Wikipedia’s English language site will be offline for 24 hours tomorrow to protest two controversial online piracy bills.

Ron Paul’s opposition to the Fourteenth Amendment would make a Paul Administration an enemy of civil liberties.

A new set of proposed Constitutional Amendments reveals that many people still don’t understand what Citizens United was about.

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

Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.

Huntsman will gain little if any traction and none of the frontrunners really helped or hurt themselves.

We’re learning more about the Obama Administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki

Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.

Killing’s our business and business is good.

Many of the clergy in Alabama are not happy with the state’s new immigration law.

Does a family court have the authority to tell a parent to delete a blog critical of his ex-wife?

It won’t go anywhere this year, but after 15 years someone is finally trying to repeal a bad law.

Even if Casey Anthony had been convicted, there’s a good chance she would have won on appeal.

The star of a controversial reality show about polygamy is suing to have Utah’s law that makes his living arrangement illegal struck down.

The US Supreme Court declined to stay the execution of a child raping murderer over a technical violation of a treaty.

The first Appeals Court decision on the Affordable Care Act was a victory for the government.

A very provocative decision on same-sex marriage from an unlikely source.

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

Thanks to an appearance on Hardball we’ve got another story about a 47 year old law.

Amanda Marcotte argues that society secretly sympathizes with rapists.

The Obama Administration is resisting efforts to expand Fourth Amendment protections to services like Gmail. That’s unfortunate.

Judge Sumi’s TROs arise from a veritable cornucopia of error.

The Supreme Court will decide whether states may jail parents who fail to make child support payments without providing them an attorney.

In just over a decade, America has gone from a bipartisan consensus that torture and brutality are bad to a bipartisan consensus that they’re necessary.

Haley Barbour is making all the moves toward a 2012 Presidential run, but his stand on immigration issues could pose a problem in the Republican primaries.

We have laws preventing the sales of gun to crazy people. We’re not enforcing them very well.

In a new interview, Justice Antonin Scalia says that the 14th Amendment does not bar discrimination against women, whether it’s done by public or private entities. He couldn’t be more wrong.