Others have done an excellent job explaining why so many pundits and news analysts are constitutionally unable to describe the impasse over sequestration as anything other than a bipartisan failure — while also revealing, perhaps unintentionally, that President Obama is advocating the very compromise they claim to believe is necessary.

But mark down Feb. 27, 2013, as the day this self-deception morphed into something more like the establishment’s very own Obama derangement syndrome. Read More

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), the top Republican in the House on immigration reform (he’s the chair of the relevant committee) seems to be opening the door to supporting a ‘path to citizenship’ as part of immigration reform.

SCOTUSblog has some early analysis of the still-ongoing oral arguments in the Supreme Court this morning on the Voting Rights Act. It appears that things are going about as expected, with the conservative justices unpersuaded that Section 5 remains constitutional and a 5-4 vote to overturn that portion of the law looking likely.