Outside the Beltway

The President is once again claiming Executive Privilege to prevent Congress from getting access to certain documents.

Thirty years ago, when the veterans of D-Day were still relatively young and still largely with us, President Reagan delivered one of the finest speeches of his Presidency.

The White House is continuing to stonewall legitimate Congressional investigations, but Congress is starting to push back.

The House of Representatives has not even acted on impeachment, but Senate Republicans have already made up their mind.

Some 2020 Democratic hopefuls are turning to a surprising source for counsel.

An absurd theory for an absurd time.

Right now, polling indicates that the American public is reluctant to support impeachment of the President but it’s possible that could change.

The problem is with our politics, not our institutions.

In an effort to block the release of the full report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Trump Administration is invoking Executive Privilege.

There’s a lot of talk right now about “electability.” but what the heck does it mean?

In the end, Impeachment is a political act more than a legal one. For that reason, Democrats should not pursue impeachment unless they have a reasonable chance of winning.

Having lost to him, she’s an ineffective voice on the matter of Donald Trump.

The law is not on the President’s side.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

The Speaker says she will reject any attempt to deliver it in a “highly classified” manner.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

Michael Cohen pulled back the curtain and revealed much about the true nature of Donald Trump yesterday. It’s not a pretty picture.

There is a bit of a disjuncture between the terminology and the reality (but that does not excuse Trump’s current actions).

President Trump’s impending decision to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall will quickly face serious legal challenges. It may be more vulnerable than the White House suspects.

A new study reveals that the Republican tax cut package passed at the end of 2017 has not had the economic impact the GOP claimed it would.

As the shutdown continues the numbers get worse for the President, but he doesn’t seem to care.

President Trump is claiming that he could use authority to declare a “national emergency” to build his wall even if Congress doesn’t authorize it.

Mystery continues to surround a proceeding that has been making its way through the Federal Courts in Washington, D.C.

Jacob T. Levy has a column worth a read.

The verdict of last month’s elections was clear, but Republicans still don’t seem to get it.

The evidence that the GOP lost the midterms because of public repudiation of President Trump is overwhelming. The GOP will either accept this and learn from it, or they will not.

Losing the midterms is not going over well with the President.

With their House majority secure, Democrats must now select their leadership team for the next two years. It’s not going smoothly.

Whether as candidates or as voters, Democrats can thank women for many of their victories on Tuesday.

A bunch of mysteriously sealed filings in Federal Court in D.C. could mean that Robert Mueller has already subpoenaed the President.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

The Bork hearings have come up in the context of the Kavanaugh confirmation, Some thoughts ensue.

Former President Jimmy Carter is warning his party against drifting too far left as we head into the midterms and, beyond that, the 2020 campaign cycle.

With less than two months to go before the midterm elections, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.

President Trump wants Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department to investigate the anonymous Op-Ed published earlier this week even though there doesn’t appear to have been a crime committed.

Donald Trump spent part of Labor Day engaged in yet another unhinged attack on his own Justice Department.

Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81,

Max Boot proclaims “Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud.”

No matter how long Donald Trump remains in office, August 21, 2018 will be the day that everything changed.

Paul Laxalt, the former Nevada Senator who was one of President Reagan’s closest confidantes outside the White House, has died at 96.

The frequency and ease with which this President lies is, to say the least, alarming.

The Department of Justice’s Inspector General found that former F.B.I. Director James Comey was ‘insubordinate’ in regard to the Clinton email investigation, but found no evidence of political bias at the Bureau.

Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?

President Trump’s attorneys have put forward a shockingly expansive view of the powers of the President.

The rules of American journalism haven’t caught up with the reality of this Presidency.

The President’s constant attacks on the news media are meant for a single purpose, to undermine even accurate reporting about wrongdoing in his Administration.

The Mueller investigation turns one year old today and, despite the arguments of Trump and his supporters, there’s no sign that it will be coming to an end in the near future.

Robert Mueller has reportedly concluded that he cannot indict a sitting President. This is not a vindication of Trump, and merely upholds a conclusion that the Justice Department reached four decades ago.

The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them.