Outside the Beltway

And a broader discussion of the ongoing Tara Reade story.

An 8-1 rebuke from the nation’s highest court.

The state is voting during the high point of a global pandemic because Republicans forced it.

The Constitution in times of extreme crisis.

How do we balance societal and individual rights during a pandemic?

The grand jury was disbanded, so there was no need to continue the coercion tactic.

A case that should never have made it to the Supreme Court.

Lee Boyd Malvo may be eligible for parole in two years.

The venerable youth organization has fallen on hard times.

The policy was undeniably harmful and unconstitutional. Is it forgivable?

The Attorney General claims to be frustrated by Presidential tweets that undermine his department.

A feminist icon offers some advice her allies will not want to hear.

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

The Commonwealth is about to become the 38th State to ratify the Nixon-era Amendment.

Prosecutors in two Virginia counties have announced that they will decline to prosecute low-level drug possession cases.

In just three years in office, Donald Trump has succeeded in taking huge steps in transforming the judiciary for decades to come.

The truth is that many voters are paying attention to issues that have nothing to do with impeachment or simply ignoring politics altogether.

A newly filed lawsuit seeks to blunt expected efforts in 2020 to “ratify” the Equal Rights Amendment even though it effectively died nearly 40 years ago.

Willie Simmons is 61 years old. He’s spent the last 38 years in prison for stealing $9.00 thanks to what clearly appears to be an unjust and overly hard “habitual offender” statute. His story is far too common.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the PPACA”s individual mandate unconstitutional but left the fate of the rest of the law unresolved.

Late last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a trio of cases healing with subpoenas for the President’s financial records.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked a Mississippi law that banned nearly all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.

Lindsey Graham is the latest Senator to make clear that he’s already made up his mind on impeachment.

For only the fourth time in history, the House Judiciary Committee has approved Articles of Impeachment against a sitting President.

Two Federal Courts have blocked the Administration from diverting Defense Department funds to pay for the President’s border wall

After a two-year investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found no basis for the conspiracy theories being pushed by the Republicans regarding the Russia investigation.

After a hearing that largely recapped the past month of hearings on Capitol Hill, the House Judiciary Committee is set to unveil Articles of Impeachment today.

The House Judiciary Committee moved one step closer to impeachment.

California Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr. will remain in office for the rest of 2019 notwithstanding his guilty plea.

George Zimmerman has filed a bizarre conspiracy theory-laden lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family, prosecutors, and others.

In the wake of yesterday’s hearing, the House of Representatives is taking the inevitable next step.

A new poll finds that a strong majority of Americans support life in prison instead of the death penalty.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court heard a significant Second Amendment case, but it is unlikely to rule on the merits of the case.

Later today, California Congressman Duncan Hunter, Jr. will plead guilty to charges of embezzling up to $250,000 from his campaign’s bank account.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

The vultures keep circling above the head of “America’s Mayor.”

The Butterball Turkey Hotline still thrives even in the era of the Internet.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

Late yesterday, the Supreme Court put a temporary hold on an order that would give Congress access to the President’s financial documents.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled against the Trump Administration’s latest effort to stonewall Congressional inquiries.

Trump takes credit for stopping his “friend” Xi from attacking Hong Kong protesters.

The California Supreme Court has struck down a state law purporting to require a candidate for President to release their tax returns,

The Secretary of the Navy was abruptly dismissed late yesterday in a dispute over the a case involving a SEAL accused of war crimes.

After months of anti-government protests, Hong Kong headed to the polls in record number.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent the weekend in the hospital over concerns about a possible infection.

An internal Justice Department investigation fails to find any evidence of political bias in the Russia investigation.

Lock her up?