Outside the Beltway

It may well be that the 25th Amendment, not the impeachment clause, will be his undoing.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

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

Despite the lack of evidence, Donald Trump continues to claim that there were ‘millions’ of illegal votes cast in 2016.

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

While vigilance is called for, America will survive Donald Trump just as it has survived everything else we’ve faced since the nation’s founding.

The answer is pretty straight-forward.

Impeachment fantasies are the new EC fantasy.

Be clear on what one is defending.

The number of faithless electors was both historical and trivial.

While hardly the most compelling argument against an archaic institution, yesterday’s silliness was noteworthy.

Obama has issued more commutations than all his predecessors combined. He set the single-day record Monday.

Beginning late this morning, the Electors in each of the states will meet to carry out their Constitutional function. Despite the drama accompanying this year’s election, there’s likely to be far less drama than some people seem to be hoping for.

Wherein a law professor makes the absurd argument that the Electoral College, which exists pursuant to the Constitution, is unconstitutional.

As we approach the vote, the fantasies keep coming.

Hillary Clinton’s national campaign wasn’t nearly as well-organized as we’d been led to believe.

New information raises serious questions about the integrity of the 2016 elections, and about Donald Trump and his supporters.

Notwithstanding the election results, support for eliminating the Electoral College is at a 20-year low.

Another day, another EC fantasy,

To the surprise of nobody who paid attention, Nancy Pelosi won re-election as leader of the House Democrats.

His actions illustration how well the EC process is institutionalized.

Those who voted for him thinking he would be guided or controlled by more sober individuals or that he would start acting presidential once elected: you were wrong.

Donald Trump claims he won an Electoral College landslide. This is a bald-faced lie.

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

An irrelevant candidate is triggering a recount in three states Trump won by substantial margins.

Debunked!

No, the EC is not going to elect Clinton.

Democracy produces good rulers, right?  Sometimes.  What good democracies actually produce best is good losers. Let us then be grateful for gracious losers, for our losers no less than our winners carry forward the American experiment in self-rule.  

If one believes the electoral college is awesome, one cannot make an argument from the position of “the wisdom of the Founders” nor from a viewpoint based on original intent.

Donald Trump is not Adolf Hitler. But that’s not the standard.

In a call to supporters, Hillary Clinton blames her loss on F.B.I. Director James Comey

Reports of the demise of the Democratic Party have been greatly exaggerated.

Some Hillary Clinton supporters have a foolish and unworkable “plan” to steal Trump’s victory in the Electoral College. They should abandon it.

The President-elect lost the popular vote. Legally, that is the way that is it. This is a disgrace for “the Greatest Democracy in the World.”

Americans are rioting in the streets because they don’t like the outcome of a democratic election.

The candidate I voted for got more than 200,000 votes for president than the winner. I’m okay with that.

And the winner is……

With just one day to go, Clinton’s paths to victory continue to look far more realistic than Donald Trump’s.

A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.

Seven days from now, millions of Americans will be headed to the polls. So far at least, Hillary Clinton is still the front runner.