Outside the Beltway

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.

A look at the numbers behind the influx of women into electoral politics this year.

Mitch McConnell has a plan that could pose problems for Democrats fighting for re-election.

The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh is, effectively, assured. Democrats should be careful about how much further they push their opposition.

The GOP’s hold on the Bob Corker’s Senate seat in Tennessee may be in jeopardy.

The first significant post-primary poll of the Florida Senate race shows a dead heat between Governor Rick Scott and Senator Bill Nelson.

As expected, Rick Scott easily won the GOP nomination for Senate in Florida, setting up one of the most highly anticipated Senate races of the year.

Another step forward in the seemingly unstoppable movement toward nationwide legalization.

Paul Laxalt, the former Nevada Senator who was one of President Reagan’s closest confidantes outside the White House, has died at 96.

A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.

The Garden State has put a hold on marijuana prosecutions in anticipation of full legalization by the end of the year.

Republicans will hold their 2020 National Convention in the same city that hosted the Democrats back in 2012.

An initiative that would have purported to split California into three separate states has been barred by the California Supreme Court from appearing on the November ballot.

The midterm elections are still four months away, but Democrats are already making moves to prepare for the race for their party’s Presidential nomination in 2020.

In November, Michigan voters will be able to make their state the tenth state to legalize marijuana. This is just the latest step in what seems to be an irreversible trend.

After thirty years on the bench, during which he played a central role in some of the Supreme Court’s most significant rulings, Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring.

It’s been eight years since we’ve seen a Supreme Court retirement, and despite speculation there were none announced today.

Some activists on the left are calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished. While that may be a great sound bite, it doesn’t really accomplish anything.

We may finally get a ruling applying the Excessive Fine Clause to the states and limiting the ability of police to confiscate property.

There are twice as many suicides as homicides in America.

After a period where Republicans seemed to be closing the gap, Democrats may be widening their lead heading into November.

Senators hoping for a long summer recess have had their hopes dashed.

Republicans are at least a bit more confident that they’ll hold on to the Senate this year.

Earlier this week, the Illinois legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. What’s unclear is if this act has any meaning at all.

With the end of the Supreme Court term approaching, speculation about a Kennedy retirement is ramping up again.

The former Senate Majority Leader had surgery in Maryland after an apparently early diagnosis.

A big win for Federalism and common sense at the Supreme Court.

Joe Manchin looks to be facing a strong challenge from Patrick Morrisey.

National Republicans are increasingly concerned that an upstart, racist candidate who has unleashed personal attacks on Mitch McConnell’s family will sneak through and win tomorrow’s primary to decide who will face Joe Manchin in November.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans support marijuana legalization according to a new poll.

Republicans are worried about 2018, and they’re even more worried that they have a President who is refusing to acknowledge political reality.

The White House is pushing back on the allegations of misconduct that were made against Ronny Jackson this week, and trying to use them in a high-profile Senate race in Montana.

The GOP’s most vulnerable incumbent is still looking very vulnerable.

Republicans are planning on pushing judicial nominees through the Senate in case they lose control in November. Meanwhile, the possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy raises the stakes.

The highest ranking Democrat in the Senate has introduced a bill that would effectively decriminalize marijuana nationwide and leave it up to each state to decide how far they wish to go with regard to cannabis regulation. It’s a huge step in the right direction.

Kyrsten Sinema, the likely Democratic nominee for the Senate in Arizona, is leading all three of her potential Republican challengers. This could spell trouble for the GOP.

Whether they like it or not, Republican candidates in the midterms will have to run with the albatross of Donald Trump around their necks.

Republicans are raising the fear of impeachment to motivate a base that could become disaffected heading into November.

President Trump’s call for National Guard troops isn’t going over well even with Republican Governors.

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

Once again, there’s speculation in Washington that Justice Anthony Kennedy could retire this year.

Democrats appear to have regained momentum in the Generic Congressional Ballot.

Recent polls have caused Republicans to become more optimistic about their chances in this year’s midterms. That optimism is both premature and misplaced.

Two Amtrak crashes in less than a week is newsworthy. It is not, however, a trend.

The deal that led to the end of the Federal Government shutdown isn’t sitting well with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

The Trump Administration is reversing policy on an Obama Era policy that allowed states to choose their own course on marijuana laws.

Federal Appeals Court Judge Alex Kozinski is resigning immediately after a barrage of sexual harassment allegations.

With the results from Alabama. the GOP faces a hard road ahead defending its majority in the Senate.

Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.