Outside the Beltway

Two hundred-odd people have pled or been found guilty. One has been acquitted.

His conversations with lawyers about stealing the election are not protected by privilege.

The former President should have known that his claims of election fraud were baseless.

It’s Manchin-approved.

Doing the right thing on 1/6/20 doesn’t absolve him of being a key Trump enabler.

In their censure of Cheney and Kinzinger the GOP wants to rewrite history.

A year after the Capitol riot, DOJ is coming after the most violent perpetrators.

Yes the riots were a disgrace but the Democrats . . . .

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

Assessing her actions in 2018 in light of 2020 and onward.

Really, they owed (and still owe) us better behavior.

The political calculus of Arizona’s senior Senator is unclear.

A novel but flawed legal argument.

It hasn’t changed in over 100 years (but the population sure has).

An interesting podcast conversation.

An emotional day set the tone for the investigation.

The College Republican National Committee Chairman elections shows the lessons taught by the national party.

Some Democratic election observers think so.

We need what we aren’t going to get.

The trends over the last half century are really something.

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

America’s institutions are undemocratic but only some of them are a product of the Constitution.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

The pivot point in the impeachment charges: two hours of silence.

Will there be in-fighting? Yes. A break-up? No.

The #3 Republican in the House will vote to impeach.

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

As we assess Trump’s role in all of this, it is important to think through what he did (and did not) do.

Trump’s lack of fealty to truth and reality gives supporters an out (if they choose it).

A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.

The President of the United States is a national security threat. Can we get rid of him now?

It’s finally officially official.

The predictable, indeed inevitable, has happened.

The President who promised to “Make America Great Again” has made her a laughingstock. And worse.

They’re actually going to go through with it.

The absurd notion that the President of Senate is the arbiter and judge of the electoral vote.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

The President of the United States is an existential threat to the Republic.

The junior Senator from Kentucky is drawing a lot of attention to himself on “fraud.”

Too little, too late.

January 6th, when the electoral votes are counted.

Wherein I respond to a ridiculous comparison.

Almost 50 losses in four weeks,. Impressive.

A shadowy flight into the realm of evidence that does not exist.

Why isn’t Joe Biden President already?

More on why it isn’t going to happen.

Some Republicans are doing their jobs.