Outside the Beltway

Surprising news from an unsurprising process.

After months of silence, Maine Senator Susan Collins has announced that she is running for a fifth term in office.

A Justice Department official who had the courage to stand up to the President has died at the age of 87.

An inexcusable assault on an utterly defenseless African-American teenager.

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is running to get his old job back.

A conservative columnist explains how once-Republican states are switching sides.

Former Astronaut Mark Kelly is posing a big challenge to Senator Martha McSally in Arizona.

A Federal Court has struck down the President’s diversion of funds for his border wall.

The United States is withdrawing its small force from Northern Syria, clearing the way for a Turkish invasion that will likely
aim to wipeout the Kurdish forces in the region.

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.

The impending impeachment of the President is likely to reveal Republicans on Capitol Hill to be the cowards we already knew they were.

For the first time, it’s conceivable that Republicans will turn against the President.

Far-left Democrats in Arizona want to punish Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema for being exactly the kind of Senator she said she’d be when she ran for office a year ago.

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

The Trump Administration from projects to build on-base schools and daycare facilities to spend on his border wall.

Four state GOPs appear poised to cancel their primaries/caucuses.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson will retire at the end of 2019, setting up a contest in 2020 to fill the remainder of his term.

Controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was voted out of office in 2016 after serving six terms in office, is running to get his old job back.

Mark Kelly, and the Democratic Party, got some good news in the latest Senate poll out of Arizona.

There are hints that former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper could abandon his seemingly doomed Presidential bid to run for Senate.

President Trump says he’s thinking about commuting the sentenced of Rod Blagojevich, who has served seven years of the fourteen-year sentence he received for public corruption.

In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel from the Second Circuit has reinstated Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

In the battle for Senate control in 2020, the conditions appear to favor Republicans. At least for now.

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.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a challenger. Much like 2014, though, it’s far too early to start writing his political obituary.

Kris Kobach, former Kansas Secretary of State and former head of President Trump’s “Voter Fraud” Commission, is running for Senator in Kansas.

Not a new observation, but one that should not be forgotten.

The attempt by Arizona’s Governor to revoke tax benefits granted to Nike in the wake of the “Betsy Ross Flag” controversy is most likely unconstitutional.

In the first poll since he entered the race, Roy Moore finds himself in third place in the race for the 2020 Republican Nomination for Senate in Alabama.

One photograph that has gone viral is standing as a visualization of the Trump Administration’s inhumane asylum policies.

Various federal and state agencies are enforcing existing laws while Congress scrambles to update them.

Much to the chagrin of Republicans hoping to win back a Senate seat they never should have lost, Roy Moore is running for Senate again in Alabama.

The Supreme Court rejected an effort by the Virginia House of Delegates to overturn a Federal Court ruling that the state’s district lines constituted gerrymandering by race. But they didn’t rule on the merits of the appeal.

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

Republicans nationwide are trying to discourage Roy Moore from running for Senate again. Roy Moore doesn’t care.

Stan Lee’s former business manager has been arrested on charges that he used his influence over the late Marvel Comics founder to divert funds and alienate Lee from his family in his final months of life.

In the latest development in the child sex abuse investigations in the Catholic Church in the United States, five former Priests in Michigan have been arrested on sex abuse charges.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.

President Trump is reportedly planning to pardon several American servicemen convicted of war crimes, an action that would be an insult to everyone who has ever worn an American uniform.

The size of the Democratic Presidential field, combined with other things peculiar to the way Democrats pick their nominee, is leading some to wonder if we might see a brokered convention in 2020.

Other than confirming a lot of Trump Judges, the Senate has not been getting much work done so far this year.

A panel of three Federal Judges has found Ohio’s Congressional District map to be unconstitutional, but a case currently pending before the Supreme Court could mute the impact of this decision.

A new poll shows President Trump struggling against four of his potential 2020 challengers. Should Republicans be worried and Democrats elated? It’s too early to tell.

Ballot measures across the country would deny access to those who refuse to release tax returns.

Trump campaign officials are worried about the President’s chances of holding onto a state that was crucial to his win in 2020. They should be.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

Pete Buttigieg is getting a lot of attention for a relatively unknown candidate. but it’s unclear if it can last.