Outside the Beltway

To defang impeachment is an invitation for presidents to ignore the rule of law.

The chief diplomat of the United States isn’t very diplomatic (nor informative).

A legendary newsman has passed.

Let’s be clear-eyed about this.

Mitch McConnell and the other 99 members of the Senate will be required to take an oath to “do impartial justice” in the impending impeachment trial. He’s already admitted that he won’t.

By the end of today, Donald Trump will most likely be the third President of the United States to be impeached by the House of Representatives.

Democrats who could prove to be vulnerable in 2020 are largely lining up in favor of impeaching the President.

For the third time since 2015, Donald Trump gets Politifact’s “Lie Of The Year.”

Lindsey Graham is the latest Senator to make clear that he’s already made up his mind on impeachment.

The men who gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution were geniuses. But they couldn’t predict the future.

The House Judiciary Committee has revealed the Articles of Impeachment against the President that it will vote on later this week.

Why mount a defense when you can go make a TV show in Ukraine?

In the wake of yesterday’s hearing, the House of Representatives is taking the inevitable next step.

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 House Intelligence Committee has released its report resulting from its investigation of the Ukraine scandal.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Secretary of the Navy was abruptly dismissed late yesterday in a dispute over the a case involving a SEAL accused of war crimes.

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

In a few short hours, the House Intelligence Committee begins the public phase of its impeachment inquiry.

A key diplomat and close supporter of the President has essentially confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo between Ukrainian aid and negative information about the President’s political opponents.

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

The GOP’s efforts to defend the President are becoming more desperate and pathetic by the day.

When the facts make for a poor defense, attack the process.

Yes, officials who follow the law are “whistleblowers.”

The time for sitting on the sidelines is over. Donald Trump cannot be allowed to get away with his usurpation of power, his disdain for the law, or his continued policies that have damaged the country.

It’s not just Ukraine.

The impending impeachment of the President is likely to reveal Republicans on Capitol Hill to be the cowards we already knew they were.

House Democrats are reportedly looking at an impeachment process narrowly focused on the President’s efforts to obtain a quid pro quo from the President of Ukraine.

The escalation has been rapid, dramatic, and warranted.

The details about President Trump’s attempts to get Ukraine to investigate the son of one of his potential 2020 rivals keep getting worse for the President.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

A Federal Appeals Court has reinstated an Emoluments Clause lawsuit against the President that had been dismissed nearly two years ago.

Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren are pandering to the base.

House Democrats are set to investigate the payoffs made to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election.

Just joking edition.

We may have the first known case of a crime committed in space.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed on with Fox News Channel to continue her career of lying on behalf of the President.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

Thanks to a ruling by the Puerto Rican Supreme Court, the island Commonwealth has its third Governor in less than a week.

Embattled Governor Ricardo A. Rosselló has stepped down but succession issues surround the man who took the oath of office late yesterday.

Starting at 8:30 a.m. this morning, the eyes and ears of Washington and much of the nation will be focus on one thing, the testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

For the first time in a century, a chamber of Congress has voted to condemn a sitting President. That won’t stop this President.

Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.

Is it possible, or even appropriate, to express pride in a country that is being led by a President who stands against everything this country stands for?

Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before Congress in public. Testimony that is likely to be the big story of the summer.

As we head toward a potential crisis in the Persian Gulf, the consequences of the President’s lies are coming home to roost.

Scot Peterson, the school resource officer who hid from fire during last year’s school shooting in Florida has been charged criminally. The legal basis for those charges seems flimsy.

Wherein I explore the notion that ignorance is bliss.

The way the Navy and Congress have handled this has been abysmal.

Republican Congressman Justin Amash has always been a rebel within his own party, now he’s making that even more apparent.