Outside the Beltway

The next time you sign a credit card receipt could be the last.

President Trump undercut his own Ambassador to the United Nations today by blocking the imposition of new sanctions on Russia.

A decryption device called GrayKey is being used by all manner of government agencies.

Mark Zuckerberg’s second day before Congress was somewhat more contentious than the first, but at the end of the day it’s still unclear that more regulation is the answer to the issues raised by recent Facebook “scandals.”

Paul Ryan won’t be running for re-election this year, opening up both a Congressional seat and a leadership spot.

Not surprisingly, a joint Senate Committee failed to really lay a glove on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at yesterday’s hearing.

Late last week, Hawaii became the seventh state and eighth major American jurisdiction to legalize assisted suicide.

Governor Rick Scott has entered the race to challenge Bill Nelson in Florida, creating what is likely to be one of the most closely watched races of the year.

President Trump wants to send the military to the Mexican border. This is both unnecessary and a bad idea.

In a bizarre Twitter rant, President Trump declared a DACA deal “dead,” blaming Democrats when it’s clear that it’s largely his fault.

Johnetta Benton was caught on tape in a 15-minute rant against President Trump’s campaign slogan. She ain’t wrong.

The woman who lost the 2016 election is apparently not going to go away.

A proposal that has no chance of passing may harm the movement he’s seeking to help.

Critics warn this move would lead to a drastic undercount of Hispanic voters, impacting Congressional districting, federal programs, and more.

New polling shows that public support for several gun control proposals continue to increase in the wake of February’s shooting at a Parkland, Florida High School.

The United States has joined Great Britain and much of Europe in retaliating against Russia for the attempted murder of a former Russian spy on British soil.

Like many Presidents before him, Donald Trump wants a line-item veto. Getting there won’t be easy, nor should it be.

Organizing protests was the easy part. The hard part for those who would seek to expand gun regulations is yet to come.

Personal attacks on teenagers whose friends were murdered is a strategy sure to backfire.

The Department Of Justice is proposing a rule change that would ban bump stocks, but it could run into legal problems.

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

This is no way to run a railroad.

Profiles in courage? With Republicans in the Trump Era, it’s more like profiles in cowardice.

We don’t yet have enough information to assign blame here. Naturally, that’s not stopping anyone.

A report in The Washington Post says that White House Staff under President Trump have been required to sign non-disclosure agreements.

Congress is no closer to a resolution of the DACA fix than it was earlier this year.

Students across the country are staging 17-minute protests at 10 am in their time zones.

Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration is backing away from gun regulations opposed by the N.R.A.

Within hours after the new Florida gun law was signed by Governor Rick Scott, the National Rifle Association had filed a lawsuit seeking to strike it down.

A big win for gun control advocates in a deeply Republican state.

What the heck is going on in Kentucky and Tennessee?

The Federal Government has fired another shot in the ongoing war over so-called “sanctuary cities.”

Another lawsuit has been filed against Dick’s Sporting Goods over its policy barring gun sales based on age.

We may about to see a wave of teacher strikes.

POLITICO buries the lede in making the case for “Donald Trump’s bubble presidency.”

Once again, the Administration is walking back the President’s statements on a controversial issue.

A group of twenty states have revived an old argument to mount a new legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

Yet more absurdity from Brussels, where regulators seemingly don’t understand how the Internet works.

The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether an American company can be required to turn over data stored on servers located overseas.

President Trump appeared to change positions on several gun control ideas, but he probably doesn’t mean it.

Despite the activism we’ve seen in the wake of the school shooting in Florida, it’s unlikely that we’ll see significant Congressional action on guns.

I don’t see how the state legislature making tax decisions on the basis of the public position an company takes is legal under the 14th Amendment. 

The President would like to copy Singapore’s zero-tolerance policy. The US Constitution stands in his way.

Presidents are much more constrained in issuing and rolling back regulations than they or the public think.

President Trump is calling on the Justice Department to ban bump stocks, but it seems clear that this is an area where Congress needs to be taking the lead.

Donald Trump’s dereliction of duty in response to clear evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election is a staggering and flagrant dereliction of the duties he agreed to take on when he took the Oath Of Office more than a year ago.

The prospects for extending legal protections for DACA beneficiaries are getting grimmer by the day.

The tragedy in Florida last week revealed once again how hyperpartisanship is destroying our politics and harming the country.

Al Hoffman Jr., a Florida-based real estate developer who was a leading fund-raiser for George W. Bush’s campaigns, said he would seek to marshal support among other Republican political donors for a renewed assault weapons ban.

Another day, another Court ruling against the Trump Administration.