Outside the Beltway

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?

After a year of controversy and investigation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicated on charges of fraud and bribery.

Donald Trump’s Ambassador to the European Union provides yet more evidence to support impeachment of the President.

An inexcusable assault on an utterly defenseless African-American teenager.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

Against the advice of his top military advisers, President Trump has cleared three American soldiers of war crimes, sending a horrible signal to the world and to the troops in the field.

The fight over the President’s tax returns has reached the Supreme Court.

One of Donald Trump”s closest associates has been convicted by a Federal jury.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt President Trump another setback in his effort to keep his financial records out of Congressional hands.

As the impeachment proceedings move forward, Democrats are shifting their focus to a specific, and powerful, charge.

The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a case from Connecticut filed by the parents of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.

In a few short hours, the House Intelligence Committee begins the public phase of its impeachment inquiry.

The Supreme Court took up the DACA issue today. No matter what it decides, this will likely become a big issue in the 2020 elections.

The Democratic victory in Virginia’s legislative elections has revived hopes for advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment, Even if Virginia does become the 38th state to ratify the measure, though, the actual status of the Amendment is exceedingly unclear.

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case likely to decide the fate of former President Obama’s DACA program.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has apologized for blocking constituents on Twitter as part of a legal settlement.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed President Trump a loss in his effort to prevent prosecutors in New York from getting copies of his tax returns.

A Federal District court Judge in Alabama has blocked implementation of that state’s latest attempt to challenge Roe v. Wade

Revisiting a recent post.

And now we have evidence of a clear effort at a coverup by high-level White House employees. The question would be, what did the President know and when did he know it?

Twitter is banning all political advertising from its site. It is a largely meaningless decision, but it’s still a bad idea.

The proof of a quid pro quo is coming from inside the President’s own Administration.

Defying the Commander-in-Chief’s order will almost certainly ruin a good man’s career.

The President is committing enough high crimes and misdemeanors without us manufacturing them.

Today the House of Representatives approved the procedures for the impeachment proceeding against the President.

A Federal District Court Judge gave the House of Representatives, and the nation, a big win yesterday.