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Capitol Visitors Center Opens Its Doors

The new Capitol Visitor Center opens its doors tomorrow, December 2nd.
You already opened your wallet to help build it. The $621 million final price tag amounts to about $6.30 per U.S. family, or $2 per person. The original cost estimate was $265 million, with a completion date of December 2005.
But it’s going to be [...]

. . . Referred to the Committee on Sarcasm

I had to do a double-take when I first saw this bill.
H.R. 6615 would “provide for the transport of the enemy combatants detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Washington, D.C., where the United States Supreme Court will be able to more effectively micromanage the detainees by holding them on the Supreme Court grounds [...]

Reversing the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court recently ended its October 2007 term. There’s always a flurry of interest around this time as big cases are often handed down late in the term.
Here’s more analysis than you need of the term just ended from SCOTUSBlog and a summary of some of the most significant recent cases.
Supreme Court cases [...]