Outside the Beltway

Recent polling finds that Americans aren’t feeling quite so patriotic right now. It’s understandable, but we shouldn’t give up hope.

Jim Jordan, who heads the powerful House Freedom Caucus, is being accused of ignoring reports of sexual abuse by a team doctor while he was a coach at The Ohio State University.

With Justice Kennedy retiring, the new center of the Roberts Court is likely to be the Chief Justice himself.

Donald Trump continues to do something that Russian and Soviet leaders likely only thought possible in their wildest dreams, drive a wedge between the United States and its NATO allies.

In November, Michigan voters will be able to make their state the tenth state to legalize marijuana. This is just the latest step in what seems to be an irreversible trend.

Donald Trump’s trade war continues to have negative consequences for American consumers and businesses.

What was once a rare symbol of national mourning has become so commonplace as to be meaningless.

California’s legislature has moved to block localities from imposing taxes on soda and other sugary drinks.

More evidence that North Korea isn’t living up to the promises it made in Singapore.

Next term, the Justices will revisit the issue of whether someone can be tried in state and Federal Court for the same crime for the first time in nearly sixty years.

The calls to “Abolish ICE” are spreading to potential candidates for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.

A milestone for the nation’s oldest service academy, founded in 1802.

Trump’s deal-making prowess in NK and Iran isn’t too impressive.

As Washington gets ready to fight a new battle over Roe v. Wade an new poll shows that most Americans oppose overturning that decision.

The Federal Government is hoarding an awful lot of cheese.

There is a frustration and a growing sense that the American political system is illegitimate.

Another incident involving what clearly seems to be the inappropriate use of force against an African-American man.

The supposed promises made at the Singapore Summit don’t appear to be working out in the real world.

The current discussion about SCOTUS is a good excuse to look at how other countries handle these things.

Trump uses an array of ugly language about immigrants. He pretends like he is just talking about MS13 but that is not the case.

The House of Representatives has left town after once again failing to pass an immigration reform bill,, thus likely ensuring that nothing will be passed before the midterms.

Democrats are on the verge of reducing the power of superdelegates to the point where they will essentially become meaningless in the nomination process.

President Trump’s short list of potential Supreme Court nominees consists mostly of conventionally conservative, well-qualified, jurists.

A really weird detail buried in a New York Times story about President Trump’s efforts to get the Justice to retire.

The White House is hoping for a relatively quick turnaround time to pick a replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Jarrod Ramos should have been in jail, let alone allowed to have any weapon more dangerous than a butter knife.

A man with a grudge against the Annapolis Capital Gazette killed five people in the newsroom.

President Trump is reportedly considering the 47-year-old Utah Senator to replace Anthony Kennedy.

President Trump reportedly trashed the NATO alliance in conversations at the G-7 Summit, something that should make Russian President Vladimir Putin quite happy.

A Pittsburgh area police officer has been indicted on homicide charges after a video emerged that appears to show him shooting a fleeing suspect in the back

Retiring Arizona Senator Jeff Flake says that he will not seek to block President Trump’s nominee to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.

The Presidents of the United States and Russia will meet next month and there’s reason to worry about what Trump might give away.

Contrary to what many people have claimed, the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Hawaii did not overturn one of the most controversial decisions in its history.

Progressive enthusiasm for the notion that our governing framework is dynamic and ought be constantly updated by the judiciary is waning.

The unconscionable violation of norms in 2016 won’t apply in 2018; it’s a matter of power, not principle.

After thirty years on the bench, during which he played a central role in some of the Supreme Court’s most significant rulings, Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring.

Virginia Republicans nominated arch-Trumpist Corey Stewart for the Senate three weeks ago. His campaign appears to be going about as well as expected.

Convicted leaker Chelsea Manning lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maryland, to the surprise of nobody.

It’s been eight years since we’ve seen a Supreme Court retirement, and despite speculation there were none announced today.

The Supreme Court term began with hopes that the Justices would shake up the redistricting process with rulings against partisan gerrymandering. It has ended with three whimpers.

After hitting a stumbling bloc in April, Mitt Romney coasted to a win last night, and has a clear path to Washington and the U.S. Senate.

Joe Crowley, widely considered in line to replace Nancy Pelosi as party leader in the House, has been defeated.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down a California law requiring Crisis Pregnancy Centers to provide information about abortion.

In a ruling that largely relies on the authority granted by Congress to the President to regulate immigration on national security grounds, the Supreme Court has upheld the final version of the Administration’s travel ban.

Once touted as an example of his deal-making prowess, Harley-Davidson sent a rebuke to President Trump by announcing it was moving some manufacturing to Europe to counteract the impact of his ongoing trade war.

Donald Trump continues to demonstrate that he has nothing but utter contempt for the Rule of Law. At some point, he will either be called to account for this or our nation’s institutions will suffer as a result.

The Supreme Court has largely rejected a challenge to state and Federal redistricting maps in the State of Texas.

A Republican organization dedicated to abortion rights is shutting down after 30 years, eight fewer than the Party has opposed them.

Was one of the pioneering African-American entertainers a “house Negro”?

The Supreme Court declined, for now, to hear the appeal of a Washington state florist who declined to provide services for a same-sex wedding. The issues it raises, though, are likely to return to the Court in the future.