Outside the Beltway

It was both the best speech Trump has ever given and the worst presidential address I can recall

Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration has revoked guidelines to public schools that required accommodation of transgender students.

The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled against a florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding.

After a highly contentious nomination process, Jeff Sessions was confirmed last night as the new Attorney General of the United States.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

Despite two Republican defections, Betsy DeVos was confirmed today as Secretary of Education.

President Trump will name his first Supreme Court pick on his 11th day in office.

A movement motivated by hurt and fear turned into a political force eight years ago. Can another follow suit?

The answer is pretty straight-forward.

Despite a video that clearly shows what appears to be cold-blooded murder, the trial of a South Carolina cop who shot an African-American man in the back while he ran away ended in a hung jury. Fortunately, this isn’t the end of the road.

Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!

While it seems a strange choice at first blush, it’s a good one.

Alabama’s Jeff Sessions will become the nation’s top law enforcement officer. That’s not a good thing.

One professor is suggesting that Bernie Sanders played a role in 2016 similar to the one that Ralph Nader did in 2000. It doesn’t pass even cursory examination.

Wherein an initial attempt to understand something seen on Facebook leads to ruminations on religious liberty.

After two questionable police shootings, protests erupted overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Just about two days after setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York City, a suspect is in custody.

David Brooks thinks American politics “Could get ugly” before the ship gets righted.

In a ruling that could have a real impact on the 2016 election, the Supreme Court has declined to grant a stay to a lower court ruling striking down a North Carolina law that tightened Voter ID laws and restricted early voting.

For largely irrational reasons, French police are arresting women on the beach for wearing swimsuits that are compatible with their faith.

A Federal Court has barred the Federal Government from enforcing guidelines on the rights of transgender students in public schools.

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

Donald Trump’s support among African-Americans is at historic lows, and seems unlikely to recover.

The latest desperation bid from anti-Trump Republicans is guaranteed to make a GOP civil war more likely.

A Federal Judge in North Dakota has struck down that state’s Voter ID Law, the fourth such decision in less than a month.

Big losses for proponents of Voter ID laws in two swing states.

After four straight losses, prosecutors in Baltimore are throwing in the towel in the Freddie Gray case.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

Two cases quite a distance from each other, but in both police seem to be acting with a ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ attitude, especially when it comes to African-American men.

If the allegations of a new lawsuit are true, things are truly lurid behind the scenes at Fox News Channel.

Mississippi tried to provide special protection to opponents of same-sex marriage and transgender rights. A Federal District Court Judge, properly, finds the law to be unconstitutional.

Unlike previous civil rights changes, this one came without much fanfare, fight, or even discussion.

The murder of Jo Cox, MP is looking more and more like a politically motivated assassination, and that’s causing some in Great Britain to look inward.

An overnight shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida has left 20 people dead and at least 42 injured.

The Greatest Of All Time.

The Fourth Circuit has declined to rehear a case in which a three judge panel sided with a transgender student seeking to use the bathroom consistent with their gender identity.

With two former Republican governors running under its banner, is there such a thing as a “Libertarian Party”?

For the second election cycle in a row, and after a contentious floor fight, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is the Libertarian Party’s nominee for President.

A group of states led by Texas has filed a suit in response to new guidelines from the Federal Government regarding the rights of transgender students.

Following in the footsteps of state prosecutors, Federal prosecutors have announced they will seek the death penalty for Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof.

An acquittal in one of the six Freddie Gray cases, but not an unexpected one.

A new poll indicates that the argument that the name “Redskins” is disparaging is not an accurate statement of how Native Americans themselves feel about the issue.

Begun, the bathroom wars have.

The political fight over North Carolina’s so-called “Bathroom Bill” has moved to the Federal Courts.

Surprising results from a new poll regarding “bathroom” bills and transgender Americans.

If you think this campaign has been awful, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

In a huge step forward for criminal justice reform, Virginia’s Governor has restored voting rights for some 200,000 people who have paid their debt to society.

Woman who liberated slaves to replace slaveholding President who presided over Native American genocide on American currency.

Justice Sotomayor argued last week that we ought to look somewhere other than just the Courts of Appeal, the Ivy League, and the Northeast for Supreme Court Justices. She’s right.

The effort to stop Donald Trump seems likely to set off a civil war inside the Republican Party.