Outside the Beltway

Trump loses his HHS Secretary amid a growing scandal involving the use of private and government jets by Cabinet officials.

While there are real differences between what’s being reported about White House officials such as Jared Kushner and what Hillary Clinton did, the charge of hypocrisy is well-founded.

Despite pleas from conservative lawmakers, the Dept. of Justice will not reopen the case against former I.R.S. official Lois Lerner.

As Congress heads back to work, a corruption trial in New Jersey could have big implications for what happens on Capitol Hill.

Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin’s trip to Kentucky that ‘just happened’ to coincide with last month’s eclipse is being investigated by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General.

The Daily Caller crosses a line and doesn’t seem to regret it.

Nearly 200 Members of Congress and the Senate have filed suit against President Trump alleging that he is violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

Maryland and the District of Columbia are suing President Trump based on alleged violations of two provisions of the Constitution that have never been litigated before.

If you have to have an acting attorney general as it relates to one of the biggest issues of the moment, you may have picked the wrong AG.

Donald Trump has been President for nearly four months, but has yet to name Ambassadorial picks for many slots including several important posts.

Extolling an “eye for an eye” kind of justice is not in keeping with the ethics of Jesus.

Roy Moore, who is currently on suspension, has resigned as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in order to challenge Luther Strange for his seat in the US Senate.

States are considering laws that would require candidates for President to release their tax returns, but such laws are probably unconstitutional.

More trouble for Lt. General Michael Flynn.

Day One of the questioning of Judge Neil Gorsuch went very well, and it suggests that his path to confirmation is basically clear of serious obstacles.

Despite two Republican defections, Betsy DeVos was confirmed today as Secretary of Education.

With a relatively smooth announcement, Donald Trump has named a solid and qualified conservative who will likely be confirmed to the nation’s highest court.

On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.

In the wake of the Democratic victory in the North Carolina Governor’s race, the Republican-controlled legislature has stripped the Governor’s office of significant power.

Donald Trump says he will ‘leave his business,’ but is providing very few details and continuing to leave the impression that he will enter office with more conflicts of interest than any previous President in American history.

Debunked!

The incoming president’s business interests are a yuuuge problem.

Journalistic malpractice has real consequences.

The personal, the political, and the Foundation are so intertwined as to be one enterprise.

America’s newspaper of records has published three pages of stolen tax documents from 1995.

It looks like we won’t have Roy Moore to kick around anymore.

The idea that Donald Trump has gotten his racialized rhetoric from libertarians is simply errant nonsense. The libertarian view, broadly speaking, is not defined by Murray Rothbard, Llewellyn Rockwell, and Ron Paul and those who share their views. This is but a small and even fringe group of what could be called the libertarian community.

After a unanimous Supreme Court victory, Bob McDonnell won’t be facing another corruption trial.

A majority of her non-government visitors coincidentally donated to her nonprofit.

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

Justice Ginsburg walks back her comments about the presumptive Republican nominee.

Justice Ginsburg made some recent comments about the election that have, to say the least, raised some eyebrows.

As President Obama starts campaigning for Hillary Clinton, a perennial question arises.

National tragedies, whether man-made or natural disasters, used to bring Americans together. Now they just seem to pull Americans apart.

Donald Trump has claimed that the Judge presiding over the Trump University lawsuits is biased against him, but there’s absolutely no evidence to support this argument.

Republicans have a choice to make and, so far, they’ve been making the wrong one.

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has been removed from office again.

A treasure trove of documents from a law firm in Panama could prove problematic for a large group of international leaders.

Is Ted Cruz really the only alternative to Donald Trump?

Nancy Reagan was a crucial part what made Ronald Reagan the man he was, and today she passed away at the age of 94.