Outside the Beltway

And, more broadly, about the normalization of Trump

The wrong solution for a real problem.

A bad column is worse than expected.

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

Multiple reports have the Notre Dame graduate replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The President is learning more about the Constitution every day.

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

President Trump has named his pick for Labor Secretary.

H.R. McMaster appears to be on the way out as National Security Adviser. The important question is, who replaces him?

Even members of his own party don’t trust Donald Trump enough to make it possible for him to make recess appointments.

President Trump will name his first Supreme Court pick on his 11th day in office.

A controversial member of George W. Bush’s foreign policy team is up for a post in Donald Trump’s State Department.

It increasingly appears that the GOP is on the losing side of the argument over whether to hold hearings and a vote on the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

It didn’t take long for the political battle over the seat held by the late Justice Antonin Scalia to become another part of the 2016 political battle.

Public opinion on the Supreme Court has declined significantly, largely because Republicans don’t like the Supreme Court very much right now.

We’ve seen a notable number of 9-0 Supreme Court decisions this term, but that doesn’t mean that the side that lost was making an extreme or meritless argument.

The Supreme Court rules that Recess Appointments can only be made when there’s actually a Congressional recess.

A clash over Separation Of Power and the Imperial Presidency, coming soon to a Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.

A committee of journalists who work in the “traditional” media has once again denied press credentials to SCOTUSBlog.

It’s that time of year again.

Is the GOP headed down a road that leads to yet another doomed impeachment and trial?

The Imperial Presidency didn’t start with Barack Obama, but his PPACA “fix” does much to expand it into questionable new territory.

The Supreme Court accepts what will likely be one of the most important cases of its upcoming term.

A potentially significant ruling on Separation Of Powers.

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.

The first shot in a Constitutional showdown has been fired.

The Orange Ya Glad I Didn’t Say Banana Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The GOP is at a distinct disadvantage in the political fight over President Obama’s Recess Appointment of Richard Cordray to head the CFPB.

While the President’s recess appointments are bound to set off a political dispute with the Republicans, there does not appear to be a Constitution ban against them.

Newt Gingrich’s foreign policy vision leaves much to be desired.

House Republicans are being criticized for utilizing a tactic they learned from Senate Democrats.

The world is starting to denounce the crackdown in Syria, but the reaction seems unlikely to go much beyond strongly worded statements.

President Obama and Chief Justice Roberts are calling for bipartisanship in the New Year.

The reaction to President Obama’s recent recess appointments provide us with yet another example of bipartisan hypocrisy.

The usage of the recess appointment process is just another example of the need for institutional reform in the Senate.

Warren to appears set to oversee the establishment of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Is President Obama poised to make a recess appointment for Elizabth Warren?

Are we nearing the point where presidents won’t be able to fill Supreme Court vacancies?