Julia Beck testifies against the Equality Act on Capitol Hill, April 2, 2019. (House Judiciary Committee Hearings/YouTube) On Tuesday Julia Beck testified against the Equality Act (H.R. 5) before the House Judiciary Committee. Beck is a lesbian who was booted out of the Baltimore LGBT Commission for describing a male transgender rapist as a male

Rep. Steve Scalise (R., La.) speaks at a Capitol Hill press conference in January. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Representative Steve Scalise (R., La.), minority whip in the House of Representatives, has filed a discharge petition today to override Democratic leadership and bring the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to the House floor. The bill, sponsored by Representative

A group of Central American migrants surrenders to U.S. Border Patrol Agent Jose Martinez south of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, March 6, 2019. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) It’s not that border control has been tried and failed; it hasn’t been tried. When historians look back to this era, they will wonder why we insisted

‘There was absolutely no collusion!” “Are you kidding? There was a boatload of collusion!” I’ve been doing legal analysis in hotly contested cases, including political cases, for about 35 years. By now, I should be used to the insidious word games, as well as the confusion inherent when people … Read More