Outside the Beltway

The Senate is back from its recess, but no closer to a health care bill that has any realistic chance of passing.

A report states that the meeting was set up on the predicate of information on the Clinton campaign.

Add another example of an undisclosed Russia-linked meeting and Team Trump.

After seven years that mostly consisted of losing elections, there’s a battle going on over which direction the party should head.

More provocation from Pyongyang.

Justice Kennedy is telling prospective law clerks for the term that beings in October 2018 that he is considering retiring at the end of the term that begins this October.

More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

Sarah Palin has filed a defamation suit against The New York Times alleging defamation in an Editorial linking her to the January 2011 shooting of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. From the facts alleged, she appears to have a good case.

Once again, Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to attack women, embarrass himself, and embarrass the nation he purports to represent.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving New Jersey’s challenge to a Federal law outlawing sports betting.

The GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare faces another roadblock, namely the fact that the American public doesn’t support their replacement plan.

Donald Trump’s golf courses are displaying something that literally is fake news.

The Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of a Colorado baker in a case that will determine if claims of religious liberty and free expression outweigh the application of generally applicable laws against discrimination.

The Supreme Court has once again declined to hear an appeal in a Second Amendment case.

Donald Trump’s Presidency is young, but he’s already on track to become the biggest liar ever to occupy the Oval Office.

In one of the most closely watched Special Elections in American history, the outcome turned out to be not entirely surprising.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Federal Government cannot deny trademark protection because a requested trademark is “disparaging” to a racial or ethnic group.

A hung jury in the Cosby sexual assault case results in a mistrial.

Foolishly, President Trump is rolling back part of President Obama’s opening to Cuba.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a Trump family member in the cross hairs.

Donald Trump thinks the media doesn’t like his Twitter habit. In reality, they love it.

Nearly 200 Members of Congress and the Senate have filed suit against President Trump alleging that he is violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

Maryland and the District of Columbia are suing President Trump based on alleged violations of two provisions of the Constitution that have never been litigated before.

Puerto Rican voters voted overwhelmingly for statehood yesterday in a referendum whose legitimacy is being questioned due to boycotts by opposition parties.

Reports are indicating that President Trump may cancel or delay his trip to the United Kingdom due to planned protests.

President Trump says he’d be willing to testify under oath in response to former F.B.I Director Comey’s accusations. That would be a mistake for several reasons.

James Comey’s testimony today wasn’t the end of the Russia investigation. Indeed, we are only at the beginning of the beginning, and it’s likely to get worse for the President before it gets better.

Great Britain heads to the polls today.

Based on his just released opening testimony, tomorrow’s testimony by Former F.B.I. Director James Comey is likely to be explosive.

Most Americans believe that President Trump has been actively trying to block the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation

A new report from Forbes alleges that Eric Trump’s foundation was used as a front to divert money to businesses owned by his father.

The Trump Administration will not try to stop former F.B.I. Director James Comey from testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.

May’s Jobs Report was mediocre, suggesting that the economy may be stagnating.

Hillary Clinton is blaming everyone she can for her loss, except the most obvious suspects.

President Trump is reportedly considering at least partly reversing one of the great foreign policy successes of the Obama Presidency.

Economic growth in the first quarter wasn’t as bad as first estimated, but it still wasn’t very good. And the future is unclear at best.

The President’s Son-In-Law has reportedly become a ‘focus’ of the ongoing F.B.I. investigation. That puts the President in a very awkward position.

The Administration suffers another defeat in defense of its effort to ban Muslim immigrants.

The latest CBO score for the American Health Care Act is bad news for Republicans.

Trump’s decision to retain outside counsel is not surprising. Whether he will listen to Kasowitz any more than he appears to be listening to his White House advisers, of course, is an entirely different question.

Roger Moore, who played James Bond for a longer period and in more films than any other actor to date, has died at the age of 89.

Lt. General Michael Flynn is declining to comply with a Congressional subpoena regarding the Russia investigation, and invoking his rights under the Fifth Amendment.

An important redistricting decision was handed down by the Supreme Court today.