Outside the Beltway

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

Eight months later, the President and his Administration continue to refuse to acknowledge the truth about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

A Florida Woman is being charged with felony burglary after breaking into her estranged husband’s apartment to seize his guns and give them to the police.

Another woman has accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her some 20 years ago.

Just days after being named the next Acting Secretary of Defense, the President is appointing Mark Esper to be full Secretary of Defense.

Patrick Shanahan is out as nominee to be Secretary of Defense after questions were raised during his background investigation.

Hours before departing the United States for a pomp and circumstance filled State Visit to the United Kingdom, President Trump sticks his foot in his mouth.

Despite opposition from the Catholic Church, or perhaps in rebellion against it, Irish voters overwhelmingly approved a new law liberalizing that nation’s divorce laws.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking an extension on her promise to leave office at the same time that the political future of her Conservative Party becomes increasingly doubtful.

Stephen Moore, who has been nominated to a seat on the Federal Reserve Board by President Trump. has a history of controversial remarks about women.

Ending an eleven-year drought, Tiger Woods is back on top at a major tournament.

As a no-deal Brexit becomes more likely, the EU is taking things personally.

Brexit means May-exit.

Many are calling for the UK Prime Minister’s ouster. But the problem is Brexit itself, not any one leader.

The publisher of the National Enquirer is learning that it may have been a mistake to go to war against Jeff Bezos.

The longest-serving member of Congress in American history has passed away at the age of 92.

President Trump stormed out of a meeting with Congressional leaders as the shutdown drags on with no end in sight.

The European Union has approved the final Brexit deal negotiated with Theresa May’s government, but the final chapter has yet to be written.

It’s been a month since Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in Turkey. The Saudis are continuing to lie about it, and the Trump White House is letting them get away with it.

Surely a celebrity hound with no political experience can’t become President. Right?

Congressman Keith Ellison appears to be falling behind in the race to be Minnesota’s next Attorney General.

Another example of just how imperfect our system of justice can be.

Kofi Annan, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations at the dawn of the “War On Terror,” has died at the age of 80.

RIP. Queen Of Soul

A new study claims voter ID laws may disenfranchise the demographic, potentially swinging several Congressional races.

There was a time when Mike Pence believed that a President’s personality morality and trustworthiness mattered. He clearly doesn’t believe that anymore.

A new recording of a conversation between Donald Trump and his one-time attorney/”fixer” Michael Cohen appears to put the President in a more difficult position than he has already been in.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down a California law requiring Crisis Pregnancy Centers to provide information about abortion.

Rest in Peace, Lois Lane.

Michael Cohen will invoke his rights under the Fifth Amendment in response to any questions asked in discovery in the civil suit filed against him by Stormy Daniels. That’s really the only option he has.

A Federal Judge is allowing a lawsuit alleging that President Trump is improperly benefiting from business being done at the hotel in Washington, D.C. bearing his name to go forward.

New reports indicate that Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen has been involved in efforts to keep Stormy Daniels from telling her story for at least the past seven years.

The Rob Porter story, which is quickly becoming the Rob Porter scandal, tells us a lot about the Trump White House, and none of it is good.

Steve Bannon loses his position at Breitbart after his blistering comments about the President and others in the Administration became public.

A Judge in New York has dismissed a lawsuit against the President based on two provisions of the Constitution that had never been ruled on before.

The charges against Roy Moore continue to mount as national Republicans continue to push back against him.

Another mass shooting.

Stephen Paddock’s crime was clearly terrorizing, and will impact the lives of survivors, families, first responders in many ways for a long time. Based on the currently available evidence, though, the Las Vegas shooting was not “terrorism.”

A gunman opened fire on a crowd of over 20,000 people in Las Vegas, and the results have been predictably horrific.

With his sentencing, the strange, strange saga of Anthony Weiner has come to an end. What a strange and wild ride it has been.

Great Britain heads to the polls today.

Trump’s decision to retain outside counsel is not surprising. Whether he will listen to Kasowitz any more than he appears to be listening to his White House advisers, of course, is an entirely different question.

Roger Moore, who played James Bond for a longer period and in more films than any other actor to date, has died at the age of 89.

The Anthony Weiner saga comes to an ignominious end.

A political surprise in Great Britain as Prime Minister Theresa May calls a snap election for June 8th.

Milo Yiannopoulos was a troll and a peddler in offensiveness, but the fact that he became a star on the American right was the result of a transformation of American conservatism that has been entirely unhealthy.

The President’s choice for Labor Secretary withdrew his name from consideration yesterday, but this is just the latest example of what has been a transition that has largely consisted of fumble after fumble by the Trump team.

It is Trump’s party now. Impeachment is not coming.