Last time we live blogged the House debate on District voting rights, things didn’t go too well. We’re hoping for a bit of an improvement today. From what we’ve heard on the Hill, debate kicks off at 10:30 a.m., and the legislation has been split up into two separate parts — one covering the actual voting seats both D.C. and Utah would receive and the other dealing with the minor increase in annual spending the…

It’s shaping up to be a beautiful day here in Washington, with a high around 70 degrees and mostly sunny skies. Here’s hoping the great weather can brighten the days of Montgomery County election officials, who are reporting that they won’t have a final count of all provisional ballots in the county until sometime next week, thanks to mistakes which forced many early morning voters to cast the paper ballots. We know the idea that…

Written by new DCist food and wine contributor Michael Mugmon. In the spirit of SportsCenter, DCist asks: DID YOU KNOW that United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has moonlighted as a jurist on the 12-member judging panel for the annual International Wines for Oysters Competition –- the gold medal winners of which are trotted out at Old Ebbitt Grill’s Oyster Riot? In past years, Justice Scalia –- who quietly campaigned to replace William Rehnquist…

Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia are scheduled to speak at Amerian University’s Washington College of Law from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 13. The talk is provocatively titled a “conversation on the Relevance of Foreign Law for American Constitutional Ajudication,” which we can imagine is likely to produce some judicial sparks. If you’re interested in attending RSVP by Jan. 10 by contacting the law school at (202) 274-4075 or secle(at)wcl.american.edu….