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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces another likely Southern setback - this time in Louisiana....

CLEVELAND — The accused ringleader in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio cannot rely on taxpayers to pay his legal bills, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

U.S. District Court Judge Dan Polster ruled that Samuel Mullet Sr., 66, who has a nearly 800-acre farm near Steubenville with oil and ...

Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce is broad but not limitless.

BLT: D.C. Judge Weighs Constitutional Challenge to 'Post and Forfeit' by Zoe Tillman:

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson heard arguments today about whether a legal challenge to a controversial post-arrest procedure in the District of Columbia known as "post and forfeit" should survive a motion to dismiss.

Under "post and forfeit," a person arrested for certain low-level offenses in D.C. can post collateral and then agree to forfeit it in exchange for having the case essentially dropped. The Metropolitan Police Department has come under scrutiny in the past amid concerns that officers used "post and forfeit" to quickly close and cover up wrongful arrests.

The Justices rebuke the bureaucracy's water torture.

The Buffett rule yields a pittance.

Chinese citizens understand their government is not as stable as it claims.

BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Wooing a nation of increasingly angry motorists, President Barack Obama and his Republican rivals are all plunging into gas-pump politics, seeking the upper hand as energy becomes a driving issue in the election campaign....

Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Law -- Gov. signs SEA 1, the right to defend against unlawful entry

A news release just received:

Tuesday evening, Governor Daniels signed SEA 1, titled “Right to defend against unlawful entry.” He issued the following statement about his decision to sign the bill:

“After close inspection, I have decided to sign Senate Enrolled Act 1. Contrary to some impressions, the bill strengthens the protection of Indiana law enforcement officers by narrowing the situations in which someone would be justified in using force against them. Senate Enrolled Act 1 puts into place a two-part test before a person can use deadly force against a law enforcement officer: First, it clarifies and restates the current requirement that a person reasonably believe the law enforcement officer is acting unlawfully. Second, it adds that the force must be reasonably necessary to prevent serious bodily injury to the citizen. This second requirement is not part of the current law.

“Moreover, unless a person is convinced an officer is acting unlawfully, he cannot use any force of any kind. In the real world, there will almost never be a situation in which these extremely narrow conditions are met. ..."

The Act is to counter the Indiana Supreme Court's Barnes case, posted here.

Our southern neighbor buys 13% of all U.S. exports.

CLINTONVILLE, Wis. — Sleepless families in a small Wisconsin town longed for quiet Wednesday after mysterious booming noises over the past few nights roused them from bed and sent residents into the street sometimes still in pajamas.

The strange disturbance sounds like distant thunder, fireworks or someone slamming a heavy ...

Three dismal years are spun into 17 minutes of fact-challenged campaign film.

With the House budget, the GOP's institutions are joined to the party's presidential candidates.

The United Nations ignores 12,000 rockets launched into southern Israel.

After winning independence, Americans discovered that sovereignty had to be exercised in order to be real. William Anthony Hay reviews "Among the Powers of the Earth" by Eliga H. Gould.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

Rick Santorum responds to comments by a Romney aide who compared the former governor's campaign to an Etch-a-Sketch.

We Hit A Nerve 9-8-10

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces another likely Southern setback - this time in Louisiana....

ARBUTUS, Md. (AP) -- Democrats and Republicans alike are criticizing Mitt Romney after a top adviser likened him to an Etch A Sketch....