Outside the Beltway

A new lawsuit seeks to have the 2012 DACA program declared unconstitutional.

Rudy Giuliani threw a live grenade into the middle of the Stormy Daniels affair last night, and he’s made things much, much worse for his client.

Stormy Daniels is suing the President for defamation after he accused her of lying about a threat made to her seven years ago.

Another one of Trump’s lawyers bites the dust, and hired someone with some very specific experience.

Robert Mueller has some questions for the President, and the wide range of topic areas should worry President Trump significantly.

Andrew Sullivan wonders, “Will there always be an England?”

Solving the problems created by neighborhood-based schools isn’t going to be easy.

Michael Cohen will invoke his rights under the Fifth Amendment in response to any questions asked in discovery in the civil suit filed against him by Stormy Daniels. That’s really the only option he has.

The Trump Administration has suffered another setback in its efforts to repeal DACA.

The Democratic National Committee has filed a lawsuit alleging a wide-ranging conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. As a legal document, it appears to be little more than a political stunt.

Rudy Giuliani is joining President Trump’s legal team but it’s unclear what he actually brings to that team.

Unable to get his way with the legislature, New York’s governor is taking a provocative step.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

Donald Trump could have more to worry about regarding the investigation of Michael Cohen than he does regarding the Mueller investigation.

John Boehner is now pro-weed. The world just keeps getting weirder, man.

President Trump isn’t reacting well to the raid on his attorney’s office.

President Trump won’t attend nerd prom again this year. That’s a good thing.

Not an Easter song, exactly, but certainly evocative of some of the holiday’s major themes.

A Federal Judge In New York City is allowing a lawsuit against the President’s DACA order to go forward, and he based part of his ruling on the President’s own rhetoric.

As suspected, Cynthia Nixon is not shaping up to be much of a challenge for Andrew Cuomo.

A Federal Judge is allowing a lawsuit alleging that President Trump is improperly benefiting from business being done at the hotel in Washington, D.C. bearing his name to go forward.

The United States has joined Great Britain and much of Europe in retaliating against Russia for the attempted murder of a former Russian spy on British soil.

Not surprisingly, John Bolton has some links to particularly shady people on the right.

Organizing protests was the easy part. The hard part for those who would seek to expand gun regulations is yet to come.

Sometimes, it’s all in the framing.

A famous name enters the race to challenge Andrew Cuomo, but it’s unlikely she’ll have much of an impact.

The family real estate business made tens of millions through shady dealings.

The FBI’s former deputy director was shamefully fired late Friday night, after which President Trump gloated on Twitter.

Polls released since the Parkland, Florida shooting show that support for gun control measures is at its highest level since 1993, but will it last?

Congress is no closer to a resolution of the DACA fix than it was earlier this year.

Students across the country are staging 17-minute protests at 10 am in their time zones.

Ending an investigation that was flawed and tainted with partisanship from the start, the House Intelligence Committee has abruptly concluded its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says war against North Korea would be worth it. Ignoring the fact that it would result in casualties unlike anything America has seen since the Vietnam War.

The Supreme Court has declined an invitation to intervene early in the legal arguments surrounding DACA.

A new poll suggests that Republicans would get the blame if Congress fails to pass a bill to protect DACA beneficiaries.

Billy Graham was the son of a North Carolina farmer who grew up to become a counselor to Presidents, Prime Ministers, and even a Queen.

The prospects for extending legal protections for DACA beneficiaries are getting grimmer by the day.

Another Federal Judge has placed a hold on President Trump’s order to end DACA.

A Federal Court in New York City is set to hear argument tomorrow in a case that essentially argues that a large swath of Federal laws regarding marijuana are unconstitutional.

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

The rise of ‘car sharing’ services has greatly benefitted consumers but had a devastating effect on taxi drivers.

Embattled New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez has dodged a bullet, but still faces uncertain prospects for reelection.

A Federal Judge has put a hold on the impending end of the DACA program.

New reports indicate that the President is spending more and more time watching television and tweeting. That’s not what he was elected to do.

2017 was quite a year. 2018 promises to be just as interesting.

An increasing number of businesses are refusing to accept cash as payment, that raises some interesting social and legal issues.

A Judge in New York has dismissed a lawsuit against the President based on two provisions of the Constitution that had never been ruled on before.

Yesterday was the seventy-sixth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For most Americans, though, it was just another day. That’s only natural.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The woman who says Ray Moore assaulted her when she was just 14 spoke out this morning at the same time that the White House effectively endorsed Moore’s candidacy.