Outside the Beltway

Further progress for advocates of marijuana legalization from the Land of Lincoln.

Republicans nationwide are trying to discourage Roy Moore from running for Senate again. Roy Moore doesn’t care.

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

Yet another violation of norms by the 45th President.

More proportional than the GOP, but perhaps not as proportional as one might think.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared “case closed” on the Mueller Report and the Russia investigation. This is far from the truth.

Ballot measures across the country would deny access to those who refuse to release tax returns.

Sanders’ position on felon voting is logical, yet politically suicidal.

As Democrats at the state level seek to limit the ability of parents to decline to vaccinate their children. they are facing resistance from Republican colleagues.

Sanders’ suggestion is not as outside democratic norms as one might think.

As many states contemplate restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentence, a leading Democrat wants to go further.

Princeton historian Sean Wilentz lays to rest a pernicious idea propagated by . . . Princeton historian Sean Wilentz.

While polarization in our national politics gets the most attention, several states also face serious rural-urban tensions.

Some basics on the US party system.

Congress is doing its damned job for a change.

Democratic candidates for President are quickly voicing support for marijuana legalization.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

There appear to be enough votes in the Senate to pass the resolution disapproving President Trump’s border wall “emergency,” but there’s not enough Republican support to override an expected veto.

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

While not subject to filibuster, it’s still subject to Presidential veto.

The American Civil Liberties Union has joined the list of groups with lawsuits against the President’s declaration of a “national emergency” at the southern border.

The lawsuits against President Trump’s “national emergency” have begun. Except more.

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.

…there is only one plausible pathway to get there.