Outside the Beltway

After a year of fighting, the Administration has given up on its effort to get a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

Later today, the President is expected to take some form of ‘Executive Action’ in an effort to get a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a District Court ruling that President Trump cannot block Twitter users from accessing his account.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill that will make it easier for Congress to get President Trump’s tax returns.

The Trump Administration has informed Federal District Court Judges in Maryland and New York that it intends to still try to justify putting a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

A day after appearing to have conceded the issue, the Trump Administration says it is still looking for a way to include a citizenship question on the ballot.

In the wake of an adverse Supreme Court ruling, the Trump Administration has decided not to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

The Trump Administration has officially conceded to the rule of law.

As expected, the House Ways & Means Committee is suing Treasury Secretary Mnuchin over his refusal to provide the committee with copies of the President’s tax returns.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in a series of cases challenging the President’s decision to end the DACA program.

In a clear defeat for the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that the Federal Government could not ask about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

In a significant setback for challenges to partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court has effectively ruled that Federal Courts do not have jurisdiction to hear challenges to redistricting based on partisan motivations.

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.