Outside the Beltway

We’ve created some perverse incentives.

Are some of us more American than others?

Not just the illegal kind. Just anti-immigrant.

And why I think future presidents will use the powers that Trump has demonstrated exist.

Thinking about ideology in the Trump era.

One expert says yes.

A correct but disturbing ruling.

A passing observation on the attempt to gift Trump a plane.

The Trump administration is trying to get a ruling on one issue while sidestepping the merits of the case.

When does Executive overreach become something more?

The 47th President is flooding the zone.

And remembering “jokes” about governing like a dictator.

Trying to upend 150 years of legal understanding with the stroke of a sharpie.

Some discussion of history, politics, and policy.

It’s going to be a long four years.

Thinking out loud, as one does.

Putting down markers for future reference.

Trump betrayed his oath. That should disqualify him from office. That’s the whole point of section 3 of the 14th.

The court, rightly, punted the issue to Congress and local leaders.

Tulsi Gabbard was born in American Samoa, an American territory whose residents are generally not American citizens from birth. However, she is nonetheless a “natural born citizen.”

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

In addition to being mandated by the Constitution, birthright citizenship goes to the core of what it means to be an American.

National Republicans are worried that the President’s concentration on hot-button issues could end up backfiring. They should be.

While the numbers seem to show that scandal-plagued Senator Bob Menendez will win re-election on Tuesday, national Democrats aren’t taking any chances.