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West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) told reporters this morning that he will push the state legislature to allow a 2010 special election to replace the late Sen.

When West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) said Friday that he was passing the torch to Carte Goodwin, his former general counsel and appointee to replace the

During a pair of press conferences today, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan offered a rough sketch of the waivers states can use to opt out of

The online legal resource SCOTUSblog, which follows the U.S. Supreme Court, is holding an online symposium on an issue that figures prominently in the fate of Florida health policy: the constitutionality of the federal health reform law.

This afternoon, the Senate voted to end debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill, 60 to 40. Today or tomorrow, the Senate will

I’d bet that Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., is really mad now. After telling the government last week that it has no

As the fight over union rights continues to rage in Wisconsin, at least four other states have become battlegrounds as well. It has been reported that Iowa,

They’ll let Jason Goldberg keep his money there after the big stink, but your business will remain a whole other story.

Might have seen this one coming. When the Bush administration agreed in December to tap Wall Street bailout funds to help Chrysler and General Motors avoid

The rising tide of violence in Afghanistan identified in the United Nations’ most recent quarterly country report got the lion’s share of the press attention

Various interest groups are touting infrastructure investment as a particularly effective economic stimulus strategy because, they claim, such projects can

The effort within the McCain campaign’s upper ranks to pin Sen. John McCain’s loss of the presidential election on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is now in full swing,

After what appears to be the passage of Proposition 8 in California, gay marriage advocates have filed three different lawsuits challenging its

The Obama administration’s move today to install strict new fuel efficiency and emission standards for the nation’s vehicles has left some Michigan Democrats in

The U.S. House of Representative’s move to strip federal funding from any program related in any way to abortion could have wide-reaching consequences

Party strategists hope to harness voter anger at unemployment with anti-spending rhetoric.

Since writing my last post, I received this from Tracy Schmaler at the Justice Department, responding to my earlier request for comment on the habeas corpus

Since my piece on the intensifying battle over preventive detention was published, Ken Gude from the Center for American Progress wrote to point out an