Outside the Beltway

The dean of conservative columnists argues that the Republican Congress must be taught a lesson.

The 100-mile Constitution-free zone strikes again.

The crying Honduran girl who has become a symbol of a brutal policy actually is not one of its victims.

Either the President of the United States is a knowing liar or he is very easily duped. Neither is a comforting thought.

The odds of an immigration bill passing the House were already low. This morning, President Trump pretty much guaranteed failure.

In a case that pit the new rules of cyberspace against the old rules about when the Fourth Amendment protects privacy, the Supreme Court ruled today in a way that breathes new life into both privacy and the Fourth Amendment.

Notwithstanding the rhetoric of the President and his supporters, most Americans believe that immigration is a good thing for the United States.

ABC is bringing back Roseanne without Roseanne Barr. Whether that will prove to be a success or not remains to be seen.

Melania Trump visited a detention center in Texas where children are being held by the Federal Government, but it was her choice of apparel that seemed to garner the most attention.

The former New York City Mayor is prepared to spend $80 million to help Democrats take back Congress this year.

President Trump once said that “trade wars are good and easy to win.” It’s only been three months since he started this war and we’re already finding out just how wrong he is about that.

We may finally get a ruling applying the Excessive Fine Clause to the states and limiting the ability of police to confiscate property.

President Trump has reversed the family separation policy and replaced it with a family detention policy. This is likely to lead to Court challenges.

House Republicans are supposed to vote on one or more immigration bills this week, but can’t even agree what their policy should be.

Trump’s former Campaign Manager mocked a ten-year-old girl with Down’s Syndrome who was taken away from her parents.

A new poll out of Arizona gives Republicans some hope that they’ll be able to dodge the possibility of Joe Arpaio or Kelli Ward winning a primary to fill an already vulnerable seat.

Another unilateral withdrawal from an international institution.

Donald Trump wants Republicans to make his immigration policies the centerpiece of the midterm campaign. What could possibly go wrong?

The Supreme Court avoided ruling on the merits of two partisan gerrymandering cases, but the issue will be back before them sooner rather than later.

New polling shows that the Trump Administration’s family separation policy is widely unpopular, with only Republicans supporting it. That last fact, though, is why Trump is unlikely to change the policy.

A federal trial court has ruled the practice an unconstitutional infringement on suffrage.

Trump supporters seeking to justify the Trump Administration’s family separation policy are drawing a false, and baseless, equivalence between immigrant families and people who have been convicted of crimes.

A 9-0 ruling side-stepped the broader issue of to what extent purely political considerations may be applied.

Children are not political bargaining chips, but that’s exactly what this President plans to turn them into.

Steve Bannon says he doesn’t believe the President has ever told a lie.

Democrats have decided to move up the date of their 2020 Convention.

The President continues to enjoy enthusiastic support from the over-65 set.

Some recommended reading.

The Trump administration’s approach to immigrant children is a serious test of our national morality.

With two more weeks to go, there are plenty of “big” cases still awaiting the release of a decision.

The offer was made to Roger Stone.

President Trump and his supporters are blaming the policy of separating parents and children at the border on Democrats. This is, simply put, a lie.

In a new interview, the President says that he doesn’t believe that N.F.L. players who kneel during the National Anthem have a real issue.

A Trump Administration policy announced in April has resulted in roughly 2,000 children being taken from their parents at the border.

Donald Trump said he wishes people would ‘sit up and pay attention’ to him the way they do in North Korea when Kim Jong Un speaks.

House Republicans put forward a plan to protect DACA beneficiaries, but President Trump appears to have doomed it already.

Donald Trump’s former Campaign Manager was sent to jail, a move that likely increases the pressure on him to cooperate with Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Two months ago, the President called on states to send National Guard troops to the border. As expected, they’re not guarding the border.

President Trump is at the center of controversy again after video emerged of him returning the salute of a North Korean General.

There was some degree of humor in the Dept. of Justice’s Inspector General’s report.

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.

The Attorney General of New York has filed a Complaint against President Trump and several members of his family alleging widespread fraud in the operation of Trump’s charitable Foundation.

In a significant First Amendment ruling, the Supreme Court has held that a Minnesota law barring “political apparel” at polling places is unconstitutional.

The GOP and Donald Trump are indistinguishable now. But it’s not clear what that means.

One outcome of the SIngapore Summit includes a purported agreement to work on repatriating American remains from the Korean War. This is a good thing, but the President couldn’t resist adding obvious embellishment.

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

A POLITICO story pushes a plausible narrative with an example that’s almost certainly not evidence of it.

Corey Stewart may be the darling of the Trumpidians in the GOP, but he won’t be getting any help from Senate Republicans.

The Trump Administration’s new legal position on coverage for people with pre-existing conditions could pose political problems in the fall.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s celebrity challenger doesn’t appear to be going anywhere.