Outside the Beltway

Democratic politicians are lining up behind the octogenarian President.

History shows us that candidates who enter the race for President late rarely do well, and rarely manage to win.

If President Trump expected to get a political bump from the death of the leader of ISIS, he is most likely going to be disappointed.

Late last week, a Federal Judge blocked a California law requiring candidates for President and other offices to make copies of their tax returns public.

The Trump campaign and several other parties have filed lawsuits challenging California’s new law requiring candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns.

California’s legislature has passed a law purporting to require candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns, but it’s likely to face legal challenges if it becomes law.

California is the latest state to try to force all Presidential candidates, including the President, to release their tax returns as a condition for getting on the ballot. It’s not at all clear that this is permitted under the Constitution.

California is set up throw a huge curve ball into the 2020 Presidential nomination fight.

The latest entry in the unity third party presidential candidate genre is just as bad as they always are.

California is taking a major step in Criminal Justice reform by eliminating cash bail.

Late last week, Hawaii became the seventh state and eighth major American jurisdiction to legalize assisted suicide.

President Trump’s call for National Guard troops isn’t going over well even with Republican Governors.

The Federal Government has fired another shot in the ongoing war over so-called “sanctuary cities.”

Responsible governance from the Golden State?

Yet another lawsuit against yet another controversial Trump Administration policy.

Just 1,436 days until Election Day 2020!

Hillary Clinton is hoping to avoid an embarrassing loss in California to Bernie Sanders, and she just got some help from an unlikely source.

We will have a two party system for the foreseeable future.

California has become the second state to provide for automatic voter registration for all eligible voters when they obtain or renew a driver’s license.

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide, making California the fifth state to legalize the practice and possibly giving real political momentum to the Right To Die movement.

California’s legislature has approved a bill that would legalize physician assisted suicide in the nation’s largest state.

A proposed California law would require all students who attend public school to be vaccinated, with limited exemptions for medical reasons.

A man best known, perhaps, for what he didn’t do, has passed away

Voter Turnout was lower this year than in any midterm since the one held eleven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Republican wave extended even to Governor’s races that, in any other year, they should have lost.

Time to look into the crystal ball.

The most novel argument yet against capital punishment.

A landmark ruling out of California that could help propel a real debate on education reform.

Another victory for the GOP establishment in its battle against the Tea Party.

Going after Hillary Clinton by attacking her husband won’t work.

An excellent argument for immigration reform can be found in the case of one Californian named Sergio Garcia.

A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.

Fourth time’s the charm? Probably not.

New Jersey’s highest court gets it right.

Faster than many expected, same-sex marriage became the law again in California late yesterday.

Jerry Brown’s second go-round as governor has been very, very good to the Golden State.

The Court may have “punted” the Proposition 8 ruling, but it is likely to have a wide-ranging impact both in California and nationwide.

On the whole, a complete victory for advocates of same-sex marriage today at the Supreme Court.

A bipartisan commission of elder statesmen confirms what we’ve known for years.

Jerry Brown tells the US Supreme Court to go to hell.

How two head coaches got struggling NFL teams ready to play one day after the shocking death of a teammate.

Another week, another innocent person killed by an NFL player.

The issue of same-sex marriage will be before the Supreme Court early next year.

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