Outside the Beltway

How do we balance societal and individual rights during a pandemic?

The Attorney General claims to be frustrated by Presidential tweets that undermine his department.

A feminist icon offers some advice her allies will not want to hear.

In a new court filing, House Democrats hint they might move to impeach the President again if the evidence warrants such action.

A newly filed lawsuit seeks to blunt expected efforts in 2020 to “ratify” the Equal Rights Amendment even though it effectively died nearly 40 years ago.

After a two-year investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found no basis for the conspiracy theories being pushed by the Republicans regarding the Russia investigation.

Why mount a defense when you can go make a TV show in Ukraine?

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

A Justice Department official who had the courage to stand up to the President has died at the age of 87.

POTUS believes, and is propagating, a conspiracy theory.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled against the Trump Administration’s latest effort to stonewall Congressional inquiries.

An internal Justice Department investigation fails to find any evidence of political bias in the Russia investigation.

Lock her up?

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

Jeff Sessions demonstrates just how obsequious he’s willing to be to get his Senate seat back.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has entered the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

Jeff Sessions is running to win back his old Senate seat, putting into play the possibility of a clash with President Trump.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed President Trump a loss in his effort to prevent prosecutors in New York from getting copies of his tax returns.

Former Senator and Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly considering running for his old Senate seat.

A Federal District Court Judge gave the House of Representatives, and the nation, a big win yesterday.

What started out as a joke on the campaign trail has turned into a serious legal argument being made to a Federal Judge by an attorney for the President.

A Federal Court has struck down the President’s diversion of funds for his border wall.

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is under criminal investigation by the same office he once headed as U.S. Attorney.

Republicans face a choice. Do they put their country first, or do they put their President first?

A Federal Judge rejected the President’s effort to block a New York City prosecutor from obtaining copies of his tax returns.

A second potential whistleblower and an apparent criminal referral from the CIA’s top lawyer make a bad week even worse for Donald Trump.

A Senate report alleges that the National Rifle Association allowed itself to become a Russian asset,

It’s not just Ukraine.

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

The White House has released a summary of the July 25th phone call between President Trump and the President of Ukraine. It doesn’t help President Trump or his defenders.

The details about President Trump’s attempts to get Ukraine to investigate the son of one of his potential 2020 rivals keep getting worse for the President.

A wrongheaded solution for a legitimate problem.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

While some Democrats are calling for the impeachment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on Capitol Hill aren’t nearly as eager to go down that road.

The effort to bring Catholic Church officials to justice for their decades of criminal conspiracy and child abuse continues to move forward.

A Federal Judge in Virginia has found the terrorist watch list unconstitutional.

House Democrats are set to investigate the payoffs made to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

Confirming the original diagnosis, Jeffrey Epstein’s death last weekend has been ruled a suicide.

A Federal Court has ruled once again in favor of a transgender student in Virginia who was prevented from using the bathroom conforming to their gender identity.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide has led to many legitimate questions that should be investigated. It has also led to the rise of a number of baseless conspiracy theories.

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President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló is set to leave office on Friday, but his designated successor doesn’t want the job.

The House Judiciary Committee is seeking to obtain the material presented to a Federal Grand Jury by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Dan Coats is stepping down as Director of National Intelligence, and President Trump wants to replace him with an inexperienced, obsequious toady.