Outside the Beltway

Democrats are on the verge of reducing the power of superdelegates to the point where they will essentially become meaningless in the nomination process.

In a ruling that largely relies on the authority granted by Congress to the President to regulate immigration on national security grounds, the Supreme Court has upheld the final version of the Administration’s travel ban.

Longstanding policy that the Justice Department defend an Act of Congress if there is “any reasonable argument” it is constitutional is being ignored.

For the second time in three years, we have a Triple Crown winner.

Donald Trump hinted that he’s considering a pardon for Muhammad Ali, but Ali doesn’t need a pardon.

Democrats on Capitol Hill are objecting to the proposed changes in the role of superdelegates in the party’s nomination process.

Political columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer has weeks to live.

Frank Carlucci, who served as President Reagan’s last Secretary of Defense, has died at 87.

A new poll indicates that Texas Senator Ted Cruz isn’t as vulnerable as previously thought, and reminds us that Texas is still a very red state.

It’s been 441 days since Donald Trump held a full-fledged Presidential press conference. Does anyone care?

The campaign-agnostic political science models predicted a toss-up in 2016 and again in 2020.

The first real poll of the Senate race in Texas shows Ted Cruz with a much thinner lead than might be expected in a state like Texas. That doesn’t mean we should expect a Democratic upset there, though.

Unable to get his way with the legislature, New York’s governor is taking a provocative step.

Congress passed a funding bill to avert a shutdown with time to spare early this morning, but now the President is threatening a veto.

Donald Trump may be getting ready to act as his own Chief of Staff. That would be a huge mistake.

Nine years later, at least one member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee is admitting what seemed at the time a rather obvious fact.

President Trump’s job approval hits a new low.

Donald Trump is wildly unpopular in the United Kingdom, and that’s apparently causing him to eschew visiting the United States’s most important ally.

A Federal Court in North Carolina has issued a stinging ruling against the partisan gerrymandering undertaken by the Republican legislature in that state.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.

Hugh Hefner, who became both a cultural icon and a catalyst and reflector of vast social changes, has died at the age of 91.

A new poll shows that Donald Trump could end up having an impact on the race for Virginia Governor.

One of the legal giants in the Federal Judiciary has retired from the bench.

Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.

Robert Mueller seems to be getting closer to the President, and the Administration is responding by seeking to undermine his investigation.

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

Donald Trump’s first overseas trip went about as badly as you’d expect it would.

A legendary statesman has passed.

Even with the revelations of the last three weeks, impeaching the President is still largely a fantasy.

Another judicial slap at the Trump Administration.

By the end of last night’s oral argument, at least two of the three judges hearing the appeal of the stay on the President’s Muslim travel ban appeared to be skeptical of the Federal Government’s arguments.

President Trump hinted today that he’s likely to name his Supreme Court choice next week, and the list to appears have narrowed to three men.

Delegating the morning briefing to advisors isn’t actually that unusual.

Trump backs away from yet another campaign promise.

One professor is suggesting that Bernie Sanders played a role in 2016 similar to the one that Ralph Nader did in 2000. It doesn’t pass even cursory examination.

I’ve been something of a political news junkie for 40 years now. This year has burned me out.

Two weeks before Election Day, everything seems to be going Hillary Clinton’s way.

Has any major party nominee for president ever damaged his reputation in this manner?

Much like their predecessors, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have released only limited information about their health. It may be time for that to change.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the election is “over,” because it isn’t.

A new poll shows Donald Trump barely winning in a state that should be solidly red.

Thirty five years after trying to kill President Reagan, John W. Hinckley Jr. is close to being a free man.

Ted Cruz’s convention speech was about what you’d expect, a gamble designed to set up his campaign for President in 2020 or beyond.

A man who survived great horrors to become a tireless witness for truth and advocate for human rights has passed away.

The Senate has passed an amendment to a military spending bill that would require women to register for the draft.

Hillary Clinton easily won the final contest of the 2016 primary season, and the Clinton-Sanders reconciliation dance began.

If you think this campaign has been awful, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.