Outside the Beltway

A Federal Appeals Court recently found that chalking the tires of a car parked in a public place is a violation of the Fourth Amendment. It’s not at all clear that this decision is correct.

The DOJ failed to apply best practices, doing a disservice to researchers.

Trump really has no plan about the border save for demagoging the issue.

What would it mean for the companies’ workers, the stock market and the cost of care?

The Lawfare gang and Popehat weigh in.

The principal findings of the Mueller report are now public. They’re good news for the President on Russia and a mixed bag on obstruction.

Predictably, news that the investigation has ended has people on both sides cheering. It’s unwarranted.

The Friday news dump to beat all Friday news dumps.

An odd bureaucratic reshuffling, seemingly out of the blue.

For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.

Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has upheld the Administration’s ban on bump stocks.

Robert Mueller appears to be winding down his investigation and getting ready to submit a report to the Attorney General.

The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.

They’ve gotten better at solving CAPTCHAs than we are.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that could make it easier for consumers to buy and ship wine and other adult beverages across state lines.

A new report raises an old question that’s now irrelevant.

The confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee for Attorney General appeared to go very well, making confirmation essentially a certainty.

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a case that could make it easier to order and ship wine from out-of-state retailers.

Later today, Theresa May’s Brexit deal will face a decisive vote in the House of Commons in a vote that could have implications for May’s own hold on power.

Doctors have declared Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cancer free but she is still expected to miss one more week of oral argument as she recovers from her surgery in December.

For the first time in her twenty-five years on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is missing oral argument this morning.

Washington has become the latest state to ban the sale of semiautomatic assault rifles to persons under 21.

Before even taking office, Mitt Romney is taking on the President. It’s a good sign, but we’ll see what it leads to.

One of the strongest climate regulations in the country is almost certainly unconstitutional.

As expected, the Justice Department has issued a new rule banning bump stocks. However, it is likely to face legal challenges.

Federal prosecutors are investigating the Trump Inaugural Committee, adding to the long list of the President’s legal troubles.

The President’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in assisting the President in various scandals and cover-ups.

Europe’s highest Court appeared to hand the United Kingdom a way of escaping Brexit altogether if it chose to go that route. This will greatly complicate the domestic political situation for Theresa May.

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

Honoring the 41st President cast a poor light on the 45th.

The Trump Administration is preparing to ban bump stocks in the coming weeks.

Defense Secretary James Mattis has announced that the deployment of U.S. troops to the Mexican border will be extended through the end of this year.

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

Even as its leader continues to deny the reality of Global Climate Change, the Trump Administration has released an utterly devastating report on the impact of such change over the course of the coming decades.

The European Union has approved the final Brexit deal negotiated with Theresa May’s government, but the final chapter has yet to be written.

The White House and CNN have settled the dispute over Jim Acosta’s press pass, but future conflict between this Administration and the press corps seems inevitable.

As Brexit hangs by a thread in the United Kingdom, the European Union makes clear that renegotiation of the agreement that has been reached is a non-starter.

In what seems like another effort at a cover-up, the Vatican vetoed a plan by American Bishops to address the Catholic Church’s abuse scandal.

Theresa May’s government is barely hanging on to power thanks to Brexit negotiations that clearly seem to be headed for disaster.

CNN fires back in the Administration’s ongoing war with the news media.

The next head to roll in the Trump Administration appears to be frequent Trump target DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

Rest in Peace and Excelsior, Stan Lee!

New reports indicate that Donald Trump was closely involved in the efforts to buy the silence of a Playboy model and a former adult film star.

As the midterm campaign draws to a close, Donald Trump is returning to the message of xenophobia and fear that dominated his Presidential campaign.

President Trump wants to send more troops than we have in Syria and Iraq combined to the border to deal with a non-existent threat.

The Trump Administration is preparing a policy change that will essentially define transgender Americans out of existence.

Marijuana is now legal in Canada, and many people are watching the country to see how it adjusts to this change.

The legal troubles for Tesla’s Elon Musk just got a lot more serious.

Kevin Drum makes an important point.