Outside the Beltway

It doesn’t matter what I believe. It only matters what I can prove.

There will be no religious exemptions. For now, at least.

The long demographic trend continues.

An unfunded mandate remains in place.

Even the smartest designers can’t anticipate all the flaws with the rules they write.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

Jimmy Carter’s Vice President and the 1984 Democratic nominee has died at 93.

It’s seemingly just a matter of time before recreational use is allowed throughout the United States.

A truly silly characterization from Senator Mike Lee.

Credulous reports notwithstanding, there’s more to the story.

The man most famous for getting screwed out of a Supreme Court seat has a more interesting backstory.

The live coverage of Wednesday’s assault on American democracy underplayed its seriousness.

January 6th, when the electoral votes are counted.

We may be a little closer to ending the tyranny of the Electoral College.

Election Day is increasingly a myth.

The Emoluments Clause is essentially unenforceable.

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

Lee Boyd Malvo may be eligible for parole in two years.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court heard a significant Second Amendment case, but it is unlikely to rule on the merits of the case.

POTUS believes, and is propagating, a conspiracy theory.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled against the Trump Administration’s latest effort to stonewall Congressional inquiries.

Under the Democratic National Committee’s current qualification rules, Michael Bloomberg’s self-funded campaign means he wouldn’t qualify for any future debate. He doesn’t seem worried about that.

Wednesday night’s debate drew the smallest television audience of any of the debates so far.

The fight over the President’s tax returns has reached the Supreme Court.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt President Trump another setback in his effort to keep his financial records out of Congressional hands.

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case likely to decide the fate of former President Obama’s DACA program.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed President Trump a loss in his effort to prevent prosecutors in New York from getting copies of his tax returns.

The stage for the sixth Democratic debate in December is likely to be much smaller.

In what seems to be clear violations of the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses, the President is seeking to enrich himself and his family,

The norms of social discourse are rapidly changing in the #MeToo era.

California, joined by 22 other states and jurisdictions, is suing to block the Administration’s efforts to revoke the state’s waiver to impose tougher clean air regulations.

The criteria for the November and December debate will make it much harder for some Democrats to get on the national stage. That isn’t a bad thing.

In a rebuke to traditional conservative views of Federalism, the Trump Administration intends to revoke California’s authority to set its own clean air standards,

A Federal Appeals Court has reinstated an Emoluments Clause lawsuit against the President that had been dismissed nearly two years ago.

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has once again upheld a local ordinance banning assault weapons.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that states cannot punish electors who fail to follow the will of the majority of voters n their state or state laws purporting to direct how they should vote.

Justice Ginsburg has some kind words for her two newest co-workers, perhaps to the surprise of many of Ginsburg’s own supporters.

In contrast to the idea of granting statehood to the District of Columbia, the American public appears to strongly support statehood for Puerto RIco.

A new poll finds that a majority of Americans oppose statehood for the District of Columbia.

The legal and political showdown between Congress and the White House has entered into a new stage.

Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.

Trump’s self-congratulatory July 4th nonsense bankrupted the District of Columbia’s security fund, now they’re seeking reimbursement.

A federal appeals court has ruled that DC and Maryland officials have no right to bring the suit.

Joe Biden recently said that he’d consider nominating Merrick Garland again if there were a Supreme Court vacancy while he was President. Don’t count on it.

Well, of course they are.

Virginia has finally repealed a dumb and unconstitutional restriction on how bars could advertise Happy Hours.

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

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

Scot Peterson, the school resource officer who hid from fire during last year’s school shooting in Florida has been charged criminally. The legal basis for those charges seems flimsy.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.