Outside the Beltway

It won’t be easy.

Political grandstanding over dubious claims of privilege.

A new report puts the conversation in a different light.

A special counsel has declined to prosecute the President but his rationale was painful.

Asset forfeiture may finally get reined in.

An extremely unlikely scenario.

Holding the president accountable is hard.

A law professor reads too much into a cryptic concurrence.

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

With the Trump Administration continuing to stonewall investigations, the House of Representatives is seeking to ramp up the pressure.

The House of Representatives will vote to hold the Attorney General in contempt next week but it may not mean anything.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has informed Congress that he will not comply with a subpoena seeking the President’s tax returns, meaning that we’re headed for a court battle.

The President is systematically defying Congress. Whatever can be done about that?

As expected, the House Judiciary Committee voted yesterday on party lines to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for refusing to turn over a full copy of the Mueller Report

In an effort to block the release of the full report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Trump Administration is invoking Executive Privilege.

Later this week, the House Judiciary Committee will vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt, but it most likely won’t go anywhere.

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

Bernie is back and running for President, but he’s likely to face a tougher road this time around.

Faced with a field that could be more crowded than the Republican field in 2016, Democrats have come up with a different solution to the rather obvious problem of debate scheduling.

The former Attorney General is seriously pondering a presidential bid. Seriously.

After a barrage of criticism, New Jersey Democrats are abandoning a controversial redistricting proposal.

A filing in an unrelated case has apparently revealed the existence of a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

The Party of Donald Trump has left no sane choice but to vote straight Democrat.

Authorities have arrested a Florida man named Cesar Sayoc, a 56-year-old Trump supporter, in connection with the wave of bombing attempts directed at critics of the President.