Outside the Beltway

Twitter users who have been blocked on the service by President Trump are suing him, claiming that their First Amendment rights have been violated.

The Senate GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is headed for a bumpy ride.

When the Kremlin Says ‘Adoptions,’ It Means ‘Sanctions’

Inching towards evidence of at least attempted collusion?

The Senate is back from its recess, but no closer to a health care bill that has any realistic chance of passing.

A report states that the meeting was set up on the predicate of information on the Clinton campaign.

Symbols shape our views of the past.

Add another example of an undisclosed Russia-linked meeting and Team Trump.

The June Jobs Report was significantly better than what we saw in May but on the whole not different from what we’ve seen for the last three years or so.

Senate Republicans are back home and hearing from their constituents on health care reform. It’s not going well for them.

Justice Kennedy is telling prospective law clerks for the term that beings in October 2018 that he is considering retiring at the end of the term that begins this October.

More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

The Senate left for vacation without a viable path forward on health care reform, and the road ahead seems treacherous and hard to navigate.

Sarah Palin has filed a defamation suit against The New York Times alleging defamation in an Editorial linking her to the January 2011 shooting of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. From the facts alleged, she appears to have a good case.

Being a public servant, especially serving as President or in the White House in general, means you are going to be criticized, lampooned, ridiculed, and even “attacked.”

On the second anniversary of its decision in Obergefell, the Supreme Court struck another blow in favor of LGBT rights.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is apparently chafing under a White House that isn’t letting him do his job.

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving New Jersey’s challenge to a Federal law outlawing sports betting.

The GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare faces another roadblock, namely the fact that the American public doesn’t support their replacement plan.

A big setback for Republican efforts to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare.

The Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of a Colorado baker in a case that will determine if claims of religious liberty and free expression outweigh the application of generally applicable laws against discrimination.

Once again, a bad CBO score is casting doubt on a Republican health care reform bill.

The Supreme Court has once again declined to hear an appeal in a Second Amendment case.

The Supreme Court ruled today that states may not exclude church-run schools from an aid program with a wholly secular purpose.

In a decision that hands a victory to both sides, the Supreme Court has partly upheld, and partly lifted, the stay on President Trump’s Executive Order that banned travel from six majority-Muslim nations.

The Senate GOP health care reform care bill faces a crucial week, and things aren’t looking good.

Twitter is, in some way, the most vacuous and simplistic of all social media, and it also appears to be the President’s main intellectual outlet.

No wonder they wrote it in secret and want to move quickly to a vote…

Senate Republicans released their proposed health care plan this morning, but it could already be doomed.

Some thoughts on the current state of the Democrats.

In one of the most closely watched Special Elections in American history, the outcome turned out to be not entirely surprising.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear its first case on partisan gerrymandering in more than ten years, but opponents of the practice shouldn’t start celebrating just yet.

Foolishly, President Trump is rolling back part of President Obama’s opening to Cuba.