Outside the Beltway

Mississippi has passed a law that seems designed to directly challenge the underpinnings of Roe v. Wade.

Explaining what Tuesday is likely to bring.

Day One of the questioning of Judge Neil Gorsuch went very well, and it suggests that his path to confirmation is basically clear of serious obstacles.

Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings begin Monday morning, but it’s Senate Democrats who are in the hot seat.

President Trump hinted today that he’s likely to name his Supreme Court choice next week, and the list to appears have narrowed to three men.

Once again, the GOP platform is turning into a surrender to social conservatives on issues such as same-sex marriage and transgender rights.

Depending on the outcome of the election, the Supreme Court’s just concluded term will most likely be remembered as the point at which the Court’s rightward tilt that began at the end of the Warren Court Era came to an end.

The Supreme Court has handed down a major abortion rights ruling that reaffirms the central reasoning of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and makes it less likely that Roe will ever be overturned.

Oklahoma’s Republican legislature passed a clearly unconstitutional bill outlawing abortion in the state.

The Supreme Court seems as closely divided as ever on an issue that has divided the nation for forty years, but the implications of Justice Scalia’s death were quite apparent during oral argument in the Texas Abortion Law case.

In the short term, Justice Scalia’s death will have a significant impact on cases the Supreme Court has already heard, and cases it is scheduled to hear in the next two months.

Marco Rubio is telling conservative Christians in Iowa and elsewhere what they want to hear on same-sex marriage. It just happens to be complete and utter nonsense.

Sarah Palin To The ‘Lamestream Media’: Never Mind

The Supreme Court has accepted a case involving a new Texas abortion law for review, the first abortion rights case it will hear in eight years.

Thanks mostly to Republicans unhappy with the Court’s decisions on same-sex marriage and the Affordable Care Act, public disapproval of the Supreme Court is nearing a new high.

Public opinion on the Supreme Court has declined significantly, largely because Republicans don’t like the Supreme Court very much right now.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court let stand a ruling striking down North Carolina’s mandatory ultrasound law.

In a new poll, a majority of Americans identify as “pro-choice,” but a deeper look at the numbers reveals that abortion politics remains as complicated as ever.

Hillary Clinton told supporters she’d require Supreme Court nominees to pledge to overturn Citizens United, a decision she completely misrepresented.

House Republicans are set to vote on a bill banning abortion in almost all cases after twenty weeks. What they can’t do is explain where the Constitution gives Congress the power to do this.

As oral argument in the Supreme Court gets closer, a new poll finds public support for same-sex marriage at it’s highest level yet.

Justice Ginsburg acknowledges the fact that, over the past nineteen years, same-sex marriage has gone from something that most Americans oppose to something that most Americans are willing to accept.

The House was set to vote on a ban on abortion after 20 weeks that never would have become law today but they pulled the bill. Conservatives are annoyed, but it was smart politics in the long run.

The next President will have a profound ability to shape the future of the Supreme Court, but that is unlikely to be the most important issue on voters minds in 2016.

The Supreme Court’s expansion of same-sex marriage seems to be sitting well with the American public.

Mike Huckabee is threatening to leave the GOP if the party backs down on same-sex marriage. He’s bluffing.

The die is cast.

Mitch McConnell is making promises to pro-life groups that the GOP probably won’t keep, but it’s still a politically risky move.

Once again, the Supreme Court reminds us that limiting political speech is unconstitutional.

Marlise Munoz is finally at peace, but the law that kept her hooked up to machines for two months remains on the books.

Once, against Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes it clear she isn’t going anywhere.

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn is the latest conservative to endorse the foolish idea of a Constitutional Convention.

A new poll shows public approval for the Supreme Court nearing a all-time low.

Why did House Republicans vote overwhelmingly for a bill that their own theories would find to be unconstitutional?

It’s going to be another eventful month for the Supreme Court.

Homicide rates are on pace to be lower than they were at the start of the 20th Century.

Justice Ginsburg made some interesting comments about Roe v. Wade recently. Could they be a signal about where the Court is headed on gay marriage?

When it comes to same-sex marriage, the GOP finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.

40 years after Roe v. Wade, support for the decision is still strong, but the effort to restrict it continues apace.

40 years later, the public continues to support the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade.

Some have criticized the President for delivering his gun control speech before a group of children.

The issue of same-sex marriage will be before the Supreme Court early next year.

Todd Akin says he will continue to be the Republican nominee for United States Senate from Missouri.

A columnist for The Guardian says she wishes her mother had aborted her.

Opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United continue to miss the point of what the case was really about.

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.