Outside the Beltway

A hundred days out, a wave election is the best bet.

Comparisons with 2016 all work against Trump’s re-election.

It’s just not immediate.

More dominoes are falling. They won’t be the last.

Even Republicans are wondering if President Trump is at his “Katrina moment.”

States can punish Electors who substitute their judgment for those of the voters.

Joementum.

The Commonwealth is the first state in the nation to issue regulations.

The President has reportedly invoked the Insurrection Act.

Likely the right outcome but I wish I political motivation weren’t the default presumption.

Jo Rae Perkins may be a nut, but she won a four-person primary.

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

The wagons have been circled.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

A bad night for Bloomberg and Warren has radically reshaped the race.

The primary season has just started. It is almost over.

One side is arguing over rules while the other is focused on consequences.

Despite Pompeo’s assurances, we are already seeing consequences for the Suleimani killing.

After months of silence, Maine Senator Susan Collins has announced that she is running for a fifth term in office.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

As the impeachment proceedings move forward, Democrats are shifting their focus to a specific, and powerful, charge.

Tuesday’s elections continued a trend in which Republicans have lost support among suburban voters, even in deeply red states. Guess who’s responsible for that.

Twitter is banning all political advertising from its site. It is a largely meaningless decision, but it’s still a bad idea.

Former North Caroline Senator Kay Hagan has died,

After coming under fire for a decision designed primarily to benefit himself and his family, President Trump has decided to walk back the decision to hold the next G-7 Summit at one of his properties.

The same Republicans who were outraged over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server are silent about the use of private apps by Trump officials.

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

Republicans managed to pull off a narrow win in North Carolina yesterday, but they shouldn’t be celebrating.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

Just over a week after Dan Coats announced he was stepping own as Director of National Intelligence, there are more shakeups at the top of the U.S. intelligence community.

The only African-American Republican in the House of Representatives is retiring, and that should worry Republicans nationwide.

Dan Coats is stepping down as Director of National Intelligence, and President Trump wants to replace him with an inexperienced, obsequious toady.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

The President’s decision to base his re-election campaign on racism and stoking racial and ethnic divisions is quite simple to explain.

Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail last night with another one of his red meat speeches. The analogies it causes one to draw are chilling to say the least.

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

Kris Kobach, former Kansas Secretary of State and former head of President Trump’s “Voter Fraud” Commission, is running for Senator in Kansas.

A law review article written when the former was a student provides an interesting contrast.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

A leading same-sex marriage advocate is pushing back on the trans movement.

In a clear defeat for the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that the Federal Government could not ask about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

In a significant setback for challenges to partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court has effectively ruled that Federal Courts do not have jurisdiction to hear challenges to redistricting based on partisan motivations.

Various federal and state agencies are enforcing existing laws while Congress scrambles to update them.

As the Supreme Court enters the final weeks of its term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at deep divisions and disappointment for people on the left.

The original ‘scandal’ was silly. The follow-up is sillier.

Starting tomorrow, we should be getting some headline-grabbing opinions from the Supreme Court.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.