Outside the Beltway

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

A former Navy SEAL charges that Blackwater snipers killed American citizens in New Orleans during Katrina’s aftermath.

DOMA’s trip to SCOTUS was practically baked into the legislation.

Providing a little context for Pope Francis’ background+Erick Erickson needs to learn a little history.

Rand Paul’s filibuster is one that all American’s should thank him for that.

The Obama White House is not ruling out targeted strikes against Americans inside American territory.

MSNBC’s Krystal Ball isn’t being hypocritical in trusting Obama to decide which Americans to kill even though she wouldn’t have trusted Bush. But she’s being short-sighted.

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

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.