Outside the Beltway

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.

The weekend arrest of a Columbia University Professor for an apparently consensual act raises some interesting questions about why precisely a specific act should be subject to criminal prosecution.

Inspired by the reaction to the Julian Assange case, a feminist writer proposes dangerous changes to American rape laws.

California’s Proposition 8 faced another legal test in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, and the day didn’t seem to go well for opponents of same-sex marriage.

Further thoughts on a rather radical proposed Amendment to the Constitution, prompted by a link from Instapundit.

As the counting of write-in ballots in Alaska continues to go in Lisa Murkowski’s favor, the Miller campaign is getting more desperate in its ballot challenges.

A Federal Judge in California has struck another blow to the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Now, the ball is in President Obama’s court.

The Obama White House is asserting that the President has the authority to issue assassination orders against American citizens, and that no Court has the authority to review his decision. If that doesn’t worry you, it should.

A federal court has found that don’t ask, don’t tell violates the First and Fifth Amendments.

The White House seems to be getting annoyed at the criticism coming it’s way from the left.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says there is no governmental or public interest in continuing a ban on gay marriage. But what about the will of his constituents?

U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker today declared California’s Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional, thus opening the latest front in the gay marriage wars.

The Supreme Court resolved a 100+ year old Constitutional ambiguity today, but the legal issues surrounding gun control remain as murky as ever.

President Obama is following the example of his predecessors in abusing his power to enact his preferred policies. Has he gone too far?