Outside the Beltway

The SOUTHCOM commander has resigned and the Senate is debating, but it won’t matter.

Serious abuses of power alongside an almost cartoonish set of behaviors.

One of the big ones has given up.

Trump’s personal lawyer, and man accused of telling DOJ lawyers to ignore court orders is now a federal judge.

The end of an era.

Abusing power to prevent the abuse of power?

Here we go again.

California’s next Senator had his night spoiled.

A truly insane proposition.

The Top Two system has created perverse incentives.

A race a Democrat will definitely win will be the most expensive in US history.

The rules are a bit complicated.

It is worth repeating

His lawyers and Democratic lawmakers are urging an exception.

The investigation produced mounds of evidence. Will it matter?

Republicans killed their parents and demanding mercy for being orphaned.

Did Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony change anything?

They’re taking their eye off the ball.

Democrats want the DOJ to act more quickly.

Emotional testimony from police will kick off the event.

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

What difference at this point does it make?

Surprising news from an unsurprising process.

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

Democrats who could prove to be vulnerable in 2020 are largely lining up in favor of impeaching the President.

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

Donald Trump’s Ambassador to the European Union provides yet more evidence to support impeachment of the President.

There were few fireworks during the first day of public impeachment hearings, but the ground work for a case against the President was laid.

In a few short hours, the House Intelligence Committee begins the public phase of its impeachment inquiry.

Get the popcorn and your favorite beverage ready.

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

They know how Congress works, but are banking on the fact that many Americans don’t.

The GOP’s efforts to defend the President are becoming more desperate and pathetic by the day.

More information released last night confirmed the extent to which the United States was linking progress on its relationship with Ukraine to an investigation of Joe Biden and his son.

A big haul for the GOP.

The President’s attorney Rudy Giuliani is among the first to be served with a subpoena in connection with the newly-launched impeachment inquiry.

Even as the impeachment vultures circle, the President is lashing out and making things more difficult for himself.

House Democrats are reportedly looking at an impeachment process narrowly focused on the President’s efforts to obtain a quid pro quo from the President of Ukraine.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

While much of the talk about Robert Mueller’s testimony has focused on the Trump campaign, there was another part to his testimony that brings attention to a far more serious threat.

Everything you always wanted in a hearing. And less.

Does the House have an obligation to proceed with impeachment?

An absurd theory for an absurd time.

Six Democrats are boycotting on principle. Four Republicans don’t care.

The Speaker says she will reject any attempt to deliver it in a “highly classified” manner.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

President Trump responded to the suggestion that the State of the Union be rescheduled by revoking military transportation for a Congressional trip to visit troops in Afghanistan.