Outside the Beltway

A trailblazer is gone at 90.

America survived a civil war and the turmoil of the 1960s. Can we rebound again?

When prejudice overrides simple humanity.

It is something we need to think about.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

The controversies over our geriatric Congress continue.

It’s time to ban a growing and dangerous practice.

A sensible compromise on a controversial issue.

The Supreme Court may revisit a controversial criminal justice ruling.

A new book raises fundamental questions about how far journalistic objectivity should extend.

Is it time to call the whole thing off?

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

A man who claims he was going to kill the Supreme Court Justice is in jail.

The apparently eminent demise of abortion rights has reignited an old debate.

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

Oklahoma’s near-total ban is part of a larger trend.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion. Alas.

The 83-year-old Justice is playing a dangerous game.

There have only been eleven since 1981.

Should he be worried about the appearance of partisan gaming?

The Supreme Court justice least concerned with precedent wants to overturn a longstanding one.

A rather odd non-ruling during the non-session from America’s highest court.

The right to worship trumps the public’s health.

Sigh.

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

Disconnected representation in action.

A desperate re-election gambit that has no impact on the outcome.

Some judicial alphabet soup in dialog with my co-blogger.

After weeks of evasion, the frontrunner hints at a compromise policy.

It’s not a cult but not exactly mainstream, either.

A pandemic and a government populated with people in their 70s and 80s.

Multiple reports have the Notre Dame graduate replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

An interesting but unlikely-to-pass bill is about to be introduced.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

Forecasters give Democrats better than even odds of a majority.

It’s time to accept the desecration of our political constitution.

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

Legitimacy hangs in the balance.

It is about finding ways to combat minority rule.

Two related discussions.

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

Another way in which the Framer’s really didn’t understand what they were creating.

Dissenters to a denied emergency appeal argue it is.

Congress forgot to disestablish a Creek Reservation created by treaty in 1833 and 1856 when it made Oklahoma a state in 1909.

Two rulings greatly expand the ability to evade the law for on Free Exercise grounds.

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.