Outside the Beltway

Like the men who came before him, Barack Obama has vastly increased the powers of his office. Someone should have asked him about that last night.

The Supreme Court seems likely to severely limit the use of race-based preferences at public universities

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

National Republicans aren’t at all thrilled with Todd Akin right now.

It’s been two months since the President has taken questions from the reporters who cover him.

Public interest groups want the Supreme Court to fix our stupid copyright laws.

A recent decision out of Massachusetts threatens to make business quite difficult for online service providers.

Either the majority and dissenting opinions in NFIB v. Sebelius were among the sloppiest in Supreme Court history or the Chief Justice switched sides at the 11th hour.

Chief Justice Roberts sided with a majority in upholding the individual mandate and, indeed, all but some trivial portions of the Affordable Care Act.

Thanks to a surprising decision by Chief Justice Roberts, the Affordable Care Act has survived the Constitutional challenges against it.

With the Supreme Court’s decision imminent, many supporters of the PPACA are starting to second guess the Obama Administration’s legal strategy.

The 1976 Pulitizer prize winner is phoning it in.

The case against Proposition 8 is headed to the Supreme Court.

As societal attitudes change, what counts as an insult so bad you can sue someone over it also changes.

This week’s hearings in the Supreme Court caught many proponents of the Affordable Care Act off guard.

Newt Gingirch ups the ante in his rhetorical assault on judicial independence.

The Supreme Court will decide on the Constitutionality of the President’s health care law by June 2012.

CBS accidentally admits that they are giving less attention to some of the Republican contenders.

President Obama ended the tradition of native costumes for the APEC Summit.

Perversely, highly qualified nominees for the courts are more likely to be rejected by Congress.

California’s Governor has vetoed a bill that would have reversed a very misguided decision by that state’s Supreme Court.

In the book he released last year , Rick Perry advocated far reaching changes to the Constitution.

Rick Perry has walked back his support for mandatory HPV vaccination but the broader issue still remains.

Time for the spinning of the straw poll results to begin.

The Supreme Court is being asked to decided if Congress can overrule a foreign policy position the U.S. has held since 1948.

What constitutes a true threat?

WSJ has a blistering editorial seeking to put the NewsCorp hacking scandal in perspective.

A Federal Appeals Court struck down an Amendment to the Michigan Constitution today as unconstitutional.

The Stephen Colbert Super PAC that began as a satire has now been blessed by the real FEC. What exactly this means is not yet clear.

The next shoe has dropped in the battle between campaign finance laws and the 1st Amendment.

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

New York Times writer Adam Liptak discovers that a Supreme Court decision protecting “corporate speech” might not be a bad thing considering that he works for a corporation.

It seems to me that inactivity can have just as profound affects as activity and likewise that it is rather difficult to argue that health care isn’t part of interstate commerce.

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 20th Amendment was supposed to eliminate lame duck sessions, but it didn’t.

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?

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

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.

Unless there’s an emergency, is it proper for representatives who have been defeated in a mid-term election to be voting on controversial legislation?

While not inherently unconstitutional, lame duck Congresses have the potential for violating the spirit of the Constitution and create the potential for mischief on the part of Representatives who have been thrown out of office.

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.

The health care reform law faced it’s first legal test in a Courtroom in Virginia yesterday.

Elena Kagan’s interest in vigorous and open confirmation hearings ended roughly the moment she was sworn in by the Senate Judiciary Committee.