Outside the Beltway

There’s a Special Election in Montana tomorrow, and the Democratic candidate is performing far above expectations.

Democrats came close to picking up what has been a solidly Republican seat for nearly forty years but ended up falling short. Instead, we’ll have a runoff in two months.

Next week’s big news is likely to be the Senate’s vote to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, which could mean invocation of the so-called ‘nuclear option’ by Senate Republicans.

Independent of the current controversy surrounding President Trump’s immigration order, Republicans in Congress are looking at a plan to break up the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

As things stand, Democrats will have a hard time winning back control in the Senate in 2018.

Just 1,436 days until Election Day 2020!

The President-elect lost the popular vote. Legally, that is the way that is it. This is a disgrace for “the Greatest Democracy in the World.”

The candidate I voted for got more than 200,000 votes for president than the winner. I’m okay with that.

If polls are any indication, voters are set to legalize marijuana in five more states on Tuesday.

Republican candidates for the Senate and House are campaigning on the argument that they will be a bulwark against a Clinton Presidency.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

There’s nothing compasssionate about protectionism.

Responding to comments on this morning’s post.

On the left and the right, there’s been a resurgence of a long-ago discredited economy theory.

Hillary Clinton won the final Super Tuesday of the 2016 primary season, thus officially sending us into what promises to be among the most contentious General Election battles in recent memory.

An historic achievement.

Bernie Sanders is continuing to let his supporters believe he has a chance to win the Democratic nomination. He is either delusional, or he is lying to his supporters.

Another round of victories puts Donald Trump another step closer to the Republican nomination.

Is Ted Cruz really the only alternative to Donald Trump?

The economy is booming. Except where it’s not.

A look at the history behind the ideology driving the standoff in Oregon.

The Supreme Court is now considering a case that deals with the problem of overly broad civil asset forfeiture laws and a Defendant’s right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment.

Ben Carson’s campaign now admits that he fabricated a key portion of his biography.

Forget about Congress, the real story going forward is likely to be Republican dominance of state legislatures nationwide.

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide, making California the fifth state to legalize the practice and possibly giving real political momentum to the Right To Die movement.

California’s legislature has approved a bill that would legalize physician assisted suicide in the nation’s largest state.

A new poll shows that nearly seven in ten Americans believe that people who are terminally ill should be allowed to end their lives with the help of a doctor.

Rand Paul held the Senate floor for nearly twelve hours yesterday to talk about the PATRIOT Act, but it’s unclear if he accomplished anything.

The largely conservative state of Nebraska seems to be on the verge of repealing its law authorizing capital punishment.

Tomorrow promises to be an historic day at the Supreme Court, but it’s been a long legal, political, and social battle.

By refusing to stay the legalization of same-sex marriage in Alabama, the Supreme Court has sent the strongest signal yet that it is ready to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

With no real opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton has no reason to rush getting into the race.

Texas has joined with 16 other states in a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the President’s executive action on immigration. At first glance, it doesn’t appear to have much legal merit.

Another round of election losses is leading Democrats to contemplate the direction they should take going forward.

Same-sex marriage advanced in Kansas and South Carolina yesterday, and will soon be law in Montana, but the Supreme Court is what matters now,

An unsurprising ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that only seems to bring closer the day when same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide.

2014 was not supposed to be a wave election, but it clearly qualifies as one.

There’s nothing wrong with choosing not to vote.

Once again, reporters and pundits are arguing that Chris Christie’s “New Jersey style” won’t play well on the stump. I’m not so sure they’re right.

Things are looking good for the GOP to take over the Senate, but there are still several right races that could tip the balance one way or the other.

All of the major sports leagues are trying to stop New Jersey’s efforts to legalize sports gambling. They should not be allowed to succeed.

There’s at least a 50-50 chance we won’t know who controls the Senate until weeks after Election Day.

The Supreme Court’s expansion of same-sex marriage seems to be sitting well with the American public.