Outside the Beltway

Could it be that he was untruthful?

You know, Russia, Russia, Russia.

Hardball politics or dirty pool?

Half a century have passed since a botched burglary changed history.

Lawyers in North Carolina are trying to get a Congressman off the ballot.

Is a contribution after an election different from one during an election?

Another 6-3 decision along ideological lines.

Kinda, sorta, maybe, but probably not really.

An over-eager supporter or something more sinister?

Look at who’s lined up against H.R. 1.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

Another entry in the “stunning, but not surprising” category of political observations.

And what GOP opposition says about the party.

Its founders are laughing all the way to the bank.

The Trump Presidency has been a long con.

The AG is Trump’s lawyer, not ours.

A law professor makes a bad argument in favor of a pet policy.

Competing in fourteen states plus overseas territories in one day is expensive.

The Republicans are playing a different game.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

More on Rudy’s actions in Ukraine

“Medicare For All” is the centerpiece of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for President, but she’s not talking about it as much as she used to.

In a new court filing, House Democrats hint they might move to impeach the President again if the evidence warrants such action.

After a hearing that largely recapped the past month of hearings on Capitol Hill, the House Judiciary Committee is set to unveil Articles of Impeachment today.

California Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr. will remain in office for the rest of 2019 notwithstanding his guilty plea.

Those Republicans who recognize how bad President Trump is for he nation but are afraid to speak out against him are as bad as the true believers of Cult45.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

Later today, California Congressman Duncan Hunter, Jr. will plead guilty to charges of embezzling up to $250,000 from his campaign’s bank account.

And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust.

The vultures keep circling above the head of “America’s Mayor.”

In a few short hours, the House Intelligence Committee begins the public phase of its impeachment inquiry.

What started out as a joke on the campaign trail has turned into a serious legal argument being made to a Federal Judge by an attorney for the President.

The third part of a long, but connected, set of thoughts.

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is under criminal investigation by the same office he once headed as U.S. Attorney.

Two associates of President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani were arrested on their way out of the country, and the question is what connection Giuliani may have to the reasons behind their arrest.

A Federal Judge rejected the President’s effort to block a New York City prosecutor from obtaining copies of his tax returns.

House Democrats are reportedly looking at an impeachment process narrowly focused on the President’s efforts to obtain a quid pro quo from the President of Ukraine.

The White House has released a summary of the July 25th phone call between President Trump and the President of Ukraine. It doesn’t help President Trump or his defenders.

House Democrats are set to investigate the payoffs made to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election.

Even a Fox News poll finds that the American public finds the President’s recent rhetoric to be racist. There’s a different picture when you look at his supporters, though.

The DNC has $9.3 million to the RNC’s $44 million.

House Democrats rejected an effort by a member of the progressive wing of the party to force an impeachment inquiry against the President.

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

The House Judiciary Committee has upped the ante in the showdown between the Trump Administration and Congress.

Another woman has accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her some 20 years ago.

Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr’s defense of campaign law violations against him suffered a big setback yesterday when his wife and co-Defendant entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors.

I continue to be opposed to impeachment of the President, but I’m slowly moving in that direction thanks primary to the Administration’s own actions.

For the first time since being appointed Special Counsel, Robert Mueller spoke to the media regarding his report on the Russia investigation. The news was not good for the President.

Michael Avenatti, the former attorney for Stormy Daniels who briefly flirted with the idea of running for President, has been charged with multiple counts of fraud and other charges, some of them in connection with his representation of Daniels herself.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has entered the race for the Democratic nomination for President, making him the 23rd candidate in an already crowded field.