Outside the Beltway

If Donald Trump actually became President, would he really do the work, or just delegate it to others? An anecdote from the campaign trail makes one wonder.

Justice Ginsburg walks back her comments about the presumptive Republican nominee.

Justice Ginsburg made some recent comments about the election that have, to say the least, raised some eyebrows.

Well that took long enough.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

Despite a year of utter failure, one group of Republicans apparently still thinks they can deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination.

Comments on a pro-Trump (well, sorta) column.

Vice-President Gingrich? Really?

Donald Trump has had a bad June, and it’s showing in the poll numbers.

George Will isn’t just refusing to vote for Donald Trump, he’s leaving the GOP entirely

Americans have increasingly come to view their political opponents as not just wrong, but evil, stupid, and immoral. That’s not something that makes for a healthy representative democratic republic.

Thanks to a 4-4 tie, President Obama’s temporary immigration relief program remains blocked by a Federal Court Injunction.

Donald Trump continues his war on freedom of the press and reporters who cover him critically by barring The Washington Post from covering campaign events.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest Democrat to unite behind the party’s presumptive nominee. A marked contrast to the chaos that reigns on the Republican side of the aisle.

Closer to making history.

The relatively unknown candidate that Bill Kristol floated as the “Never Trump” alternative has announced he’s not running for President.

After initially expressing doubts about his candidacy, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has lined up behind Donald Trump.

President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima left just the impression it should have.

Donald Trump would be a horrible president. That doesn’t justify Hillary Clinton’s bad acts.

A bad day for the Clinton campaign.

On his trip to Hanoi, President announced the latest sign that the Vietnam War is finally something both nations have manged to put behind them.

It’s not going to happen.

Regrets, he’s had a few…….

With the field before him now clear, Donald Trump is now assured to win the Republican Presidential Nomination. After that, though, his plans don’t seem to make a lot of sense.

If you think this campaign has been awful, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

In the immortal words of the Fonz, I was wr-wr-wr-wr . . . not exactly right.

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case challenging the President’s deportation relief plan, but it’s unlikely we’ll see a ruling on the merits.

A New Jersey judge, along with a Judge in Pennsylvania, is among the first to rule on the meaning of the ‘natural born citizen’ clause.

The two men most likely to win the Republican nomination aren’t very well liked outside the Republican Party.

Conservatives are doing all they can to make sure Merrick Garland does not get either a hearing or a vote in the Senate, and it’s working.

With Donald Trump inching closer to a delegate majority with each primary, it’s obvious that GOP insiders have no idea how to stop Donald Trump.

The coming political battle over President Obama’s effort to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia will likely be unlike anything we’ve seen before.

Michael Bloomberg announced today that he’s not running for President, but he came awfully close to getting into the race.

Even as Hillary Clinton heads toward winning the Democratic nomination for President, there’s an server-sized shadow over her campaign.

All of which leads to a discussion of electoral rules.

The Republican frontrunner doesn’t want newspapers to be able to write negative stories about him.

If Marco Rubio can’t win in his home state, where can he win?

A new poll shows Donald Trump with historically low support for a Republican from Latino voters. That’s a recipe for electoral disaster.

This year’s Nevada Caucuses are a good argument for why there should not be any more caucuses.

In 1992, Joe Biden said that no action should be taken on any potential Supreme Court nominations until after that year’s Presidential election. Sound familiar?

For now at least, the Bush Dynasty has seen the end of its involvement in national politics.