Outside the Beltway

Comments on a pro-Trump (well, sorta) column.

Is Indiana’s Governor a contender to be Donald Trump’s running mate?

In a sign that the ongoing F.B.I. investigation into her use of a private email server and handling of classified information is coming to an end, the former Secretary of State was interviewed by Federal Agents today.

Vice-President Gingrich? Really?

If anything, the Trump campaign is going to provide some interesting data for future political scientists who study campaigns.

A new poll finds strong public support for enhanced background checks and barring people on Federal watch lists from purchasing weapons.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch will essentially recuse herself from making a decision about indictments in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server.

President Obama signed a law vastly expanding public access to government records yesterday. In other news . . . .

The Supreme Court won’t hear the appeal of a pharmacist who objects to providing the ‘morning after’ pill.

Unlike previous civil rights changes, this one came without much fanfare, fight, or even discussion.

Chris Christie remains at the top of the list of potential Trump running mates.

Californians are set to vote on marijuana legalization in November and, this time, it looks like it will pass.

When it comes to the protections of the Fourth Amendment, it doesn’t matter if you’re “guilty” or “innocent,” it protects all of us.

Hillary Clinton holds solid leads over Donald Trump in seven battleground states.

Depending on the outcome of the election, the Supreme Court’s just concluded term will most likely be remembered as the point at which the Court’s rightward tilt that began at the end of the Warren Court Era came to an end.

Backers of the losing candidate for the Democratic nomination are surprised that they’re not getting their way.

As with each previous committee that investigated the 2012 attack on the U.S outpost in Benghazi, the House Select Committee finds that mistakes were made but no evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups.

One result from the new NBC News poll shows us how important it is to pay attention to how poll questions are phrased.

In overturning former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s conviction, the Supreme Court has sent a powerful message to overly zealous prosecutors.

Republican officials are running away from Donald Trump the way they’d run away from a horde of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.

The Supreme Court has handed down a major abortion rights ruling that reaffirms the central reasoning of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and makes it less likely that Roe will ever be overturned.

Donald Trump has had a bad June, and it’s showing in the poll numbers.

A true legend in legal journalism is moving on.

George Will isn’t just refusing to vote for Donald Trump, he’s leaving the GOP entirely

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

Americans have increasingly come to view their political opponents as not just wrong, but evil, stupid, and immoral. That’s not something that makes for a healthy representative democratic republic.

In a somewhat surprising opinion from Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas’s race-based admissions program.

Thanks to a 4-4 tie, President Obama’s temporary immigration relief program remains blocked by a Federal Court Injunction.

The trial of the man who was believed to be the most culpable in the death of Freddie Gray has been acquitted, calling the entire prosecution strategy into question.

Donald Trump has a steep hill to climb to reverse a quarter century trend.

A revered Republican foreign policy guru has endorsed the Democratic nominee for president.

Bernie Sanders admitted, finally, that he likely won’t be the nominee.

Marco Rubio changes his mind, and drops the first hint that he’s already thinking about the Presidential race in 2020 or 2024.

The Supreme Court has once again issued a ruling that further chips away at the protections of the Fourth Amendment.

Stopping the next Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Syed Farook, or Omar Mateen is likely to be a lot more difficult than the politicians on either side of the aisle are leading us to believe.

The head of the Federal Reserve tells Congress that the economy is unlikely to enter recession this years, but isn’t exactly going to be booming either.

National tragedies, whether man-made or natural disasters, used to bring Americans together. Now they just seem to pull Americans apart.

Donald Trump has almost no cash on hand. That doesn’t bode well for his campaign going forward.

As expected, the Senate rejected four gun control measures introduced in the wake of the attack in Orlando.

Continuing a pattern that began six years ago, the Supreme Court has again declined to hear an appeal in a case involving a challenge to state gun control laws.

A campaign shake up at Trump Tower, but it’s unlikely to change fundamentals.

It’s still early in the cycle, but Donald Trump’s poll numbers are already historically bad.

Clarence Thomas is the latest Supreme Court Justice to be the subject of retirement rumors. You should treat these rumors skeptically.