Outside the Beltway

Spouting opinions is far easier work that governing based on facts.

Cruelty in service of nativist purity.

After months of demanding Republicans resist, he says “We have nothing to hide.”

Newly-Sworn-in-Rep. Grijalva provides the final signature.

Not even a misdemeanor.

It’s not an unprecedented stance.

The public is much less concerned than you are.

She was not amused by the administration’s workaround.

Passing a budget the President can ignore creates a dilemma.

SCOTUS continues to favor the executive over the legislature.

Serious abuses of power alongside an almost cartoonish set of behaviors.

Allegations of shutting down an investigation.

Data? How quaint.

Representative Comer doesn’t understand much, it would seem.

Trump’s personal lawyer, and man accused of telling DOJ lawyers to ignore court orders is now a federal judge.

The pattern of attempted intimidation continues.

Administrative “errors.”

A case from rural Alabama.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

It’s good to be king.

The administration does not appear interested in deferring to the courts.

A unanimous Supreme Court has ordered the administration to comply with a lower court order.

What could possibly go wrong?

First thing we do, let’s intimidate all the lawyers.

They don’t want to give Trump what he wants, so they’re giving him what he wants.

A rebuke of pretextual firings but likely not a permanent solution.

A judge says OPM has no authority to fire workers in other agencies.

The unorthodox non-agency agency run by no one in particular may violate the basic rules of our system.

Only the best people.

The abuse of power is obvious.

The inevitable happened, inevitably.

The 47th President had a busy Monday.

The administration is compiling a list of every single agent who participated in the January 6 investigations.

The new administration is gutting the senior ranks of the civil service.

Only a handful of Republican Senators have objected. Mildly.

A difference in degree is a difference in kind.

Proud Boys and Oath Keepers insurrectionists are now free.

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and both Roosevelts pushed the envelope, too!

It is not ratified.

Legions of unpaid drones . . . ? . . . budget cuts.

The public has a right to know what its prosecutor has found.

Yet again, a court affirms he committed sexual assault.

It’s going to be a long four years.

Oh my.