Outside the Beltway

As he nears the end of his first 100 days in office, President Trump continues to suffer from bad poll numbers.

The FBI Director faced a damned if you do, damned if you don’t choice.

Faced with the fact that it has little to show for its first 100 days in office, the Trump Administration is pressuring Congress to come up with a new health care reform bill before the end of next week.

The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in a case dealing with whether Missouri can deny a religious school from participating in a program to make school playgrounds safer.

The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is hinting at a new Supreme Court vacancy this summer.

Another big change at Fox News Channel.

Democrats came close to picking up what has been a solidly Republican seat for nearly forty years but ended up falling short. Instead, we’ll have a runoff in two months.

President Trump’s job approval woes are starting to impact the GOP as a whole.

States are considering laws that would require candidates for President to release their tax returns, but such laws are probably unconstitutional.

The previous discussion continued.

Predicting election outcomes is different than predicting impeachment.

Fulfilling a promise.

It’s been a bad week for U.S.-Russian relations.

Donald Trump seems to be surprised that being President requires actual work.

Republicans held on to Mike Pompeo’s seat in the House, but the outcome was closer than many expected.

A top Trump campaign adviser was the subject of a FISA warrant for at least part of last year.

A big win for opponents of Voter ID laws.

Judge Gorsuch is now Justice Gorsuch and it’s time to hit the ground running.

A majority of Americans support last week’s airstrikes in Syria but are skeptical of any expansion beyond that.

When life terms means almost three decades on the bench, fights will be fierce.

Stop romanticizing the filibuster (and don’t appeal to the intent of the Founders).

After a prolonged vacancy and a bitterly partisan confirmation process, Neil Gorsuch has been confirmed to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mitt Romney is reportedly considering running for Senate in Utah if Orrin Hatch decides to retire.

After starting the year with two good months, the jobs report for March was quite disappointing.

As expected, Senate Republicans invoked the so-called ‘nuclear option’ to move the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch forward to a final vote on Friday.

Donald Trump is historically unpopular for a new President. What does that mean when his first foreign policy crisis comes, as it inevitably will?

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars discrimination based on sexual orientation, but its reasoning is questionable at best.

Two new polls show Donald Trump hitting new lows in the polls as we get closer to his 100th day in office.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch even as it became inevitable that Republicans would be forced to invoke the ‘nuclear option’ to confirm him to the Supreme Court.

The ordinary and the extraordinary with the latest SCOTUS nomination.

Lt. General Michael Flynn wants immunity before he agrees to testify before Congress. This could be significant, or it could mean nothing at all.

Donald Trump has basically declared war on the people who blocked the AHCA from passing last week.