Outside the Beltway

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

Earlier this month, Senator Lindsey Graham blocked a bipartisan resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide, Now we know why.

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

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

Fear of Donald Trump and his minions is making it hard for Republicans to answer a simple question.

The President of the United States behaves like a child.

Despite having utterly mishandled both areas when they actually held power, Republicans think they can win back the House of Representatives by focusing on the budget deficit and health care reform.

The evidence is clear that Russia interfered in the election in 2016 and intends to do so again. Despite this, Mitch McConnell is blocking legislation designed to enhance election security.

Everything you always wanted in a hearing. And less.

Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

This time on Venezuela

The House of Representatives has not even acted on impeachment, but Senate Republicans have already made up their mind.

Let’s look at the Mueller Report, shall we?

The President unveiled some incoherent ideas yesterday that have no chance of becoming law.

Attorney General William Barr has opened a new investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation, a move that seems suspiciously political.

As I have noted before: party trumps institutional pride. The Barr testimony is just another example.

Six Democrats are boycotting on principle. Four Republicans don’t care.

Democrats in South Carolina seem to think they have a shot at beating Lindsey Graham in 2020. I wouldn’t be so sure of that.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

Graham is blocking a vote on a non-binding resolution on the Mueller report.

Rather than pulling completely out of Syria the United States will be leaving behind a token force of about 200 troops. This is a mistake.

Faced with a field that could be more crowded than the Republican field in 2016, Democrats have come up with a different solution to the rather obvious problem of debate scheduling.

The President will sign the bill to fund the government and avert another government shutdown, but in doing so he’ll also lay the groundwork for another showdown with Congress.

William Barr was easily confirmed as Attorney General in a 54-45 votes that included three Democrats crossing over to support him.

Lindsey Graham is telling his fellow Republicans that they better back the President if he decides to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall.

As the shutdown enters day thirty-five, there are some signs of movement in Washington but no real progress.

The Senate rejected Republican and Democratic proposals as expected but there are some signs of movement forward.

President Trump responded to the suggestion that the State of the Union be rescheduled by revoking military transportation for a Congressional trip to visit troops in Afghanistan.

Despite their rhetoric, Republicans in Congress have shown through their own inaction that they don’t really support the President’s border wall.

The confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee for Attorney General appeared to go very well, making confirmation essentially a certainty.

After twenty-five days, there’s no end in sight to the Federal Government shutdown. You can thank the President for that.

If you’re looking for the biggest obstacle to a resolution to the government shutdown, look no further than President Donald J. Trump.

The government shutdown has now entered historic territory, and the Trump Administration is moving closer to a “national emergency” or other extra-legal means to get money for his wall.

Former Senator and Denocratic Presidential candidate Jim Webb is reportedly being considered for Defense Secretary.

As 2018 draws to a close, there’s no sign that the government shutdown will end any time soon.

Faced with the prospect of a large field like the one Republicans had in 2016, Democrats are trying to figure out how to handle debates. So far, the ideas being put forward are as bad as what the GOP ended up doing.

The Trump Administration is reportedly preparing to withdraw the small contingent of American troops from Syria. If it actually happens, this would be a good move.

Once again, President Trump is threatening a shutdown over the border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

In addition to being mandated by the Constitution, birthright citizenship goes to the core of what it means to be an American.

President Trump is now claiming he will end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants via Executive Order. He clearly lacks the authority to do this.

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley says he would not consider a Supreme Court nominee in 2020. But does he really mean it?

BREAKING NEWS from multiple major news outlets.

With four weeks to go until Election Day, Donald Trump and the Republicans are continuing to stoke the divisions laid bare by the Kavanaugh nomination.

One last Kavanaugh Cold Open.

I’ve changed my mind on a couple of things and hardened my opinion on others.

After eight hours of testimony, the only impression a non-partisan mind could be left with from the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh is that we need a full investigation of the charges against the Supreme Court nominee. Unfortunately, we’re not going to get that.

Based on their own rhetoric, it seems clear that Republicans don’t really care what Christine Blasey Ford has to say regarding what happened to her in 1982.