Outside the Beltway

Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring today and will swear his former law clerk in his replacement.

The leaked draft is now the law of the land.

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

POLITICO has obtained what purports to be the 1st draft of the opinion.

When doing the right thing is the wrong thing.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion. Alas.

Another 6-3 decision along ideological lines.

Things that make you go Hmmm.

You know, some light weekend thoughts.

How should we balance public health and fundamental rights?

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

Rethinking what qualities we should be looking for in Supreme Court Justices.

The iconic Supreme Court justice has died at the age of 87.

A seemingly obvious result that isn’t.

Is the Chief Justice laying a trap or simply ‘calling balls and strikes’?

A reprise of an almost identical case with a different group of Justices–and the Chief Justice switching sides.

Donald Trump would be a more effective and dangerous President if he and his team were more competent.

An 8-1 rebuke from the nation’s highest court.

A case that should never have made it to the Supreme Court.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the PPACA”s individual mandate unconstitutional but left the fate of the rest of the law unresolved.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court held oral argument in a series of cases asking it to decide if existing civil rights laws cover discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

The past week has demonstrated more notably than any other that this President is not well.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed on with Fox News Channel to continue her career of lying on behalf of the President.

Justice Ginsburg has some kind words for her two newest co-workers, perhaps to the surprise of many of Ginsburg’s own supporters.

Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument yesterday in a case that could radically impact health care coverage for millions of Americans.

Later today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear argument in a case that could upend the Affordable Care Act.

In a clear defeat for the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that the Federal Government could not ask about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

President Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment has joined the liberal bloc on several cases.

The Supreme Court rejected an effort by the Virginia House of Delegates to overturn a Federal Court ruling that the state’s district lines constituted gerrymandering by race. But they didn’t rule on the merits of the appeal.

As the Supreme Court enters the final weeks of its term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at deep divisions and disappointment for people on the left.

Starting tomorrow, we should be getting some headline-grabbing opinions from the Supreme Court.

The House of Representatives has not even acted on impeachment, but Senate Republicans have already made up their mind.

We’ve soon see whether the current Supreme Court will overturn Roe v Wade.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

The Supreme Court is likely to finish striking down restrictions on offensive trademarks.

Oral argument hints that we may have a 5-4 ruling allowing state legislatures to continue stacking the deck.

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward letting a war memorial on public property stay in place.

Supreme Court watcher Jeffrey Toobin speculates that Clarence Thomas could be the next Supreme Court Justice to step aside.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor contends that a recent change in tax law unravels the basis for the Supreme Court’s upholding of Obamacare.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving state laws banning Medicaid reimbursement for non-abortion services provided by Planned Parenthood.

The Supreme Court appears reluctant to overturn a century of case law that established a significant exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause.

The Supreme Court appears ready to impose at least some limits on civil asset forfeiture at the state level.

Yesterday. the Supreme Court heard argument in a case that makes the argument that nearly half of Oklahoma is actually Native American territory.

President Trump’s job approval numbers continue to be worse than those of any President since the end of World War Two.

President Trump’s latest attack on the Federal Judiciary prompted a rare rebuke from the Chief Justice of the United States.

Sad news from the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

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