Outside the Beltway

Judge Gladys Kessler upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, but she did so by essentially ruling that the Interstate Commerce Clause means whatever Congress wants it to mean.

The Affordable Care Act has been ruled Constitutional in Holder v. Mead.

Is Jon Stewart a useful idiot?

Republicans won the right to govern Wisconsin. What does that mean for Democrats?

Neither side is covering themselves in glory in the battle over the Badger State budget.

Donald Trump sounds like a man running for president.

Four Senators who just happen to be up for re-election next year are silently looking for alternatives to the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.

Predicting (after a fashion) what the SCOTUS will do with the PPACA and a return to the Commerce Clause and the activity/inactivity disucssion.

A 2005 concurring opinion from Antonin Scalia may be the piece of legal reasoning that ultimately saves the Affordable Care Act in the Courts.

The Government IN InAaction Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

A second Federal District Court judge has declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.

The Republican Study Committee has come up with some significant budget cuts.

Time for midterms.

Now that Republicans have the House, wouldn’t they be better off playing nice?

The current approach of the GOP to health care is not dissimilar to its approach to fiscal policy: not a lot of substance.

There appears to be bipartisan support for repealing one of the most egregious tax rules in last year’s Affordable Care Act

The Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the appeal of a far-reaching Commerce Clause case may indicate rough times ahead for challenges to ObamaCare

The Pelosi Estates Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

When determining the effects on the deficit of a certain legislative action, both revenues and spending have to be accounted for. Indeed, you can’t determine whether there is a deficit, surplus or balanced budget without both variables.

The filibuster reform package that Senate Democrats unveiled yesterday has much to recommend to it. Unfortunately, it’s probably doomed.

The next round in the health care reform wars is about to start.

President Obama and Chief Justice Roberts are calling for bipartisanship in the New Year.

Constitutional ambiguity is as old as, well, it’s as old as the Constitution itself

The seemingly sensible end-of-life counseling that was originally part of the Health Care Reform Bill is making a comeback.

Ohio Congressman Steve Driehaus is suing a pro-life PAC for “defamation” and “loss of livelihood” over its role in his defeat in the 2010 Elections.

Is “ObamaCare” a slur or a breezy and descriptive nickname?

The new health care law’s individual mandate was the subject of another bruising court battle yesterday, but the real question in the room was what, if any, are the limits on Congressional authority?

The battle over the individual mandate is really just nothing more than the latest round in a batter that has been ongoing for 221 years.

Despite yesterday’s victory for opponents of the Affordable Care Act, the prospects in the Supreme Court are not good.

A Federal Judge in Virginia has handed the first legal defeat to the President’s health care reform package.

Is Obama really the most liberal President ever? Not really.

Another Federal Judge dismisses a Constitutional challenge to the health care reform law, and demonstrates just how unlikely it is that any of the lawsuits against the law will be successful.