Outside the Beltway

Late last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a trio of cases healing with subpoenas for the President’s financial records.

For the third time since 2015, Donald Trump gets Politifact’s “Lie Of The Year.”

With the House of Representatives just days away from impeaching President Trump, polling shows that public opinion on the issue has not changed much since October.

What lessons are there for the United States in general, and Democrats in particular, in last weeks British election?

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked a Mississippi law that banned nearly all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.

Lindsey Graham is the latest Senator to make clear that he’s already made up his mind on impeachment.

The Hallmark Channel caved to the complaints of a small group of so-called Christians who objected to a television commercial.

Cory Booker’s campaign is starting to show some of the same signs of collapse that Kamala Harris’s did.

I think Representative Van Drew has made a miscalculation.

Continuing a discuss from below.

Democratic Congressman Jeff van Drew of New Jersey is reportedly switching parties

The men who gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution were geniuses. But they couldn’t predict the future.

Alliance to party trumps alliance to branch.

A new poll shows Senator Lindsey Graham vulnerable to a Democratic challenge next year, but there are several caveat.

The trial phase of the Trump impeachment is set to be an absolute partisan joke.

China and the U.S. have reached an initial trade deal that averts billions of dollars of new, inadvisable, tariffs, but the devil is in the details.

For only the fourth time in history, the House Judiciary Committee has approved Articles of Impeachment against a sitting President.

President Trump is reportedly considering boycotting the General Election debates next fall.

Two Federal Courts have blocked the Administration from diverting Defense Department funds to pay for the President’s border wall

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in fifth place in national polling, but a new poll suggests that he may not rise much further.

An interesting albeit dubious selection for Person of the Year.

Some reports are indicating that Joe Biden’s campaign is considering making a pledge that he would only serve a single term if elected. This would be a mistake.

Kamala Harris didn’t fail because of her race, she failed because she was a bad candidate.

The House Judiciary Committee has revealed the Articles of Impeachment against the President that it will vote on later this week.

New polling shows that the American public does not support the President and his trade war.

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.

Lindsey Graham faces a potentially interesting challenge in his 2020 re-election bid.

Paul Volcker, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who put an end to the rampant inflation that threatened to choke the American economy, has died at 92.

WIth North Korea’s end of the year deadline for progress on talks quickly approaching, it is clear that the Trump Administration’s policies with regard to the DPRK have failed.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Why mount a defense when you can go make a TV show in Ukraine?

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.

Especially Senate inaction.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

Those Republicans who recognize how bad President Trump is for he nation but are afraid to speak out against him are as bad as the true believers of Cult45.

November saw much higher jobs growth than economic analysts were expecting, but it could just be a statistical blip.

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.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

With the clock ticking down to the end of the year and a deadline imposed by the DPRK on talks with the U.S., the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy is in a shambles.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

The House Intelligence Committee has released its report resulting from its investigation of the Ukraine scandal.

President Trump said this morning that he’s fine with letting his trade war with the rest of the world continue all the way to the 2020 election.

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.