Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

The Obama administration refused to defend me against the lawsuit filed for José Padilla. Now even the liberal Ninth Circuit agrees the suit was frivolous.

Thomas Miller's contributions to the National Review Online symposium discussing possible ramifications of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

In October of 2009, Kumud Majumder, the father of an 11-year-old son with advanced leukemia, joined a lawsuit challenging the federal ban on compensating bone-marrow donors. He wanted to save his son's life. Last week Mr. Majumder and his co-plaintiffs enjoyed a victory. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the majority of bone-marrow donors may lawfully be compensated.

At this AEI event, panelists will discuss the practical potential and wisdom of further changes to patent law designed to promote innovation and entrepreneurial vigor in the United States.

For all the talk about the Affordable Care Act's mandate to purchase insurance, you might think that the mandate is the linchpin of the entire law. It isn't, at least from the standpoint of whether the insurance market will collapse without it. 

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear cases challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare and has allotted an apparently unprecedented five and a half hours for oral argument on four separate issues.

It's racially discriminatory to prohibit racial discrimination. That's the bottom line of a decision issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.