Outside the Beltway

Not surprisingly, the President’s opening speech of the 2020 campaign was filed with lies.

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.

The President is once again claiming Executive Privilege to prevent Congress from getting access to certain documents.

With the Trump Administration continuing to stonewall investigations, the House of Representatives is seeking to ramp up the pressure.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has quit a group he helped found nine years ago after they voted to condemn him for advocating for the President’s impeachment.

As the Supreme Court enters the final weeks of its term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at deep divisions and disappointment for people on the left.

The White House is continuing to stonewall legitimate Congressional investigations, but Congress is starting to push back.

Starting tomorrow, we should be getting some headline-grabbing opinions from the Supreme Court.

A Federal Judge has put at least a partial hold on President’s Trump’s effort to use a “national emergency” to fund his border wall.

The city by the Bay is rapidly transforming. Should we lament that?

Justin Amash doubled down on his criticism of the President and his call for impeachment even as he came under fire from fellow Republicans.

Despite similar paths to the Supreme Court, it turns out the two don’t share the same style and approach.

Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent whose identity was outed during the Bush Administration, is running for Congress in New Mexico.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans say they won’t vote for President Trump in 2020. but that’s only half the battle for Democrats

A Federal Court in Michigan has found several of that state’s Congressional and state legislative districts to have been subject to extreme partisan gerrymandering.

A novel argument, untested in court, suggests that it might.

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

The New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago metro areas are all losing people.

Are people fleeing blue states to avoid repressive taxes? It depends who you’re asking.

Princeton historian Sean Wilentz lays to rest a pernicious idea propagated by . . . Princeton historian Sean Wilentz.

Oral argument hints that we may have a 5-4 ruling allowing state legislatures to continue stacking the deck.

A racist scholar took some fascinating photos of an enslaved man in 1860. Now, his descendants want the rights to them.

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

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

A second Federal Judge has found that the Commerce Department violated the law when it moved to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census form.

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

The Supreme Court will hear a case dealing with a challenge to the Commerce Department’s decision to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court today and appears to have fully recovered from her December surgery.

Eugene Volokh asks, I provide my answer.

A Federal Judge has blocked the Trump Administration from going forward with a plan to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

Once again, President Trump is threatening a shutdown over the border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

The verdict of last month’s elections was clear, but Republicans still don’t seem to get it.

A brewing fight over funding for the President’s border wall could throw a monkey wrench into plans to pass a budget by next Friday.

The evidence that the GOP lost the midterms because of public repudiation of President Trump is overwhelming. The GOP will either accept this and learn from it, or they will not.

Democratic pickups in several state legislatures could impact redistricting after the 2020 Census.

The NYT is trying to start a conversation.

In addition to winning back the House, Democrats also made gains in Governor’s races.

The Trump Administration is preparing a policy change that will essentially define transgender Americans out of existence.

Minority rule and self-reinforcing cleavages are not a a healthy combination.

A Federal Court has ruled that North Carolina can use its current Congressional District map for this year’s midterms notwithstanding a ruling that it is an impermissible gerrymander.

Florida voters in the Republican and Democratic parties have set up a Gubernatorial race that provides a stark choice on the table for Sunshine State voters in a race that will likely have national implications moving forward.

New Generic Congressional Ballot polls have good news for Democrats.

After a week, the race for the GOP nomination for Kansas Governor is over. Now it’s on to what could be an interesting General Election.

A new study finds that a majority of the UK population—and of UK Parliamentary seats—support remaining in EU.

Forget the “republic v. a democracy” abstraction. The numbers show some serious flaws in translating popular will into government.

The Supreme Court has largely rejected a challenge to state and Federal redistricting maps in the State of Texas.

Madison was right about politicians and ambition. He just didn’t see the how it would all play out.

The Supreme Court avoided ruling on the merits of two partisan gerrymandering cases, but the issue will be back before them sooner rather than later.

The President continues to enjoy enthusiastic support from the over-65 set.