Outside the Beltway

Reports are indicating that Donald Trump may be looking to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Rudy Giuliani.

The Supreme Court has once again declined to hear an appeal in a Second Amendment case.

A Congressman was shot, and a staffer and security detail members injured, at a practice session for tomorrow’s Congressional baseball game.

An important redistricting decision was handed down by the Supreme Court today.

Two years after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, nearly two-thirds of Americans support the idea of legal marriage rights for gay and lesbian Americans.

Wayne LaPierre’s perverted view of the world in two sentences.

Roy Moore, who is currently on suspension, has resigned as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in order to challenge Luther Strange for his seat in the US Senate.

A majority of Americans support appointment of an Independent Counsel to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 election and the Trump’s campaign’s ties to Russia, but we should be careful before taking this step.

After a highly contentious nomination process, Jeff Sessions was confirmed last night as the new Attorney General of the United States.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

The Acting Attorney General was fired last night after announcing that she would refuse to defend President Trump’s Executive Order on immigration. As a result she was fired. Contrary to some arguments, this was not improper.

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

President Trump hinted today that he’s likely to name his Supreme Court choice next week, and the list to appears have narrowed to three men.

While vigilance is called for, America will survive Donald Trump just as it has survived everything else we’ve faced since the nation’s founding.

With repeal of the Affordable Care Act now likely sooner rather than later, key Republicans are urging the party to have a replacement in place before repeal is voted on.

Time For The Monday OTB Caption Contest^TM

As things stand, Democrats will have a hard time winning back control in the Senate in 2018.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.

Alabama’s Jeff Sessions will become the nation’s top law enforcement officer. That’s not a good thing.

The candidate I voted for got more than 200,000 votes for president than the winner. I’m okay with that.

Distinguishing between anti-elite populism and coded anti-Semitism is next to impossible.

It looks like we won’t have Roy Moore to kick around anymore.

A new study debunks an old idea.

Donald Trump is signaling a big shift in his immigration position.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

More Republican officeholders are distancing themselves from Donald Trump, but it’s time to start wondering what took them so long,

If reports are correct, Indiana Governor Mike Pence will be Donald Trump’s choice for a running mate.

If anything, the Trump campaign is going to provide some interesting data for future political scientists who study campaigns.

The Trump campaign is out with its own ‘short list’ of potential running mates.

A group of states led by Texas has filed a suit in response to new guidelines from the Federal Government regarding the rights of transgender students.

Oklahoma’s Republican legislature passed a clearly unconstitutional bill outlawing abortion in the state.

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has been removed from office again.

Answering a question that gets a lot.

Several top Republicans have already said that they would not accept a position on a ticket with Donald Trump, so who might he choose?

For most Americans, the debate over same-sex marriage is over and marriage equality has won. This would not, however, include the social conservatives who continue to have a much too vocal role in the Republican Party.

Another big night for Donald Trump puts him another step closer to being the presumptive GOP nominee.

They haven’t gotten much attention, but there are five contests today as the 2016 nomination process continues to move forward.

As expected, Hillary Clinton won big last night while Bernie Sanders largely floundered, thus going further toward making Clinton’s victory inevitable.

As expected, Donald Trump dominated Super Tuesday, putting himself one step closer to becoming the Republican nominee for President.

Changes that the Republican National Committee made to delegate allocation rules in response to what happened in 2012 are helping Donald Trump in 2016.

It’s Super Tuesday, and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are likely to go a long way toward securing the nominations of their respective parties.

Ever since last week’s debate, the race for the Republican nomination has come to resemble a schoolyard fight among a bunch of nine year-olds.