Outside the Beltway

New York and several other states have filed an incredibly dubious lawsuit against the Republican’s new tax law.

Some Democrats want to compel President Trump’s translator to testify about his private meeting with Vladimir Putin. That’s a bad idea.

Joe Crowley, widely considered in line to replace Nancy Pelosi as party leader in the House, has been defeated.

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.

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

The Trump Administration’s School Safety Commission isn’t getting off to a very good start.

The new American Ambassador to Germany is making what clearly seem to be inappropriate statements about domestic politics in Europe.

Alex Jones is finally being called on to answer for his irresponsible lying about events like the Sandy Hook shooting.

We have a generation of schoolkids who aren’t even surprised when there’s a shooting at their school. That’s a problem.

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been charged with rape and sexual assault in a New York Court.

The new President of the National Rifle Association has a new theory to explain mass shootings, but there’s no basis for believing it’s accurate.

The Supreme Court has declined to accept yet another Second Amendment case for review, continuing a streak that goes back some eight years.

Regrets, he’s had a few.

Eleven states plus DC, who have 172 of the 270 electoral votes needed to elect a President, are now part of the compact.

With the accusations mounting, the nomination of Ronny Jackson to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs is becoming more and more imperiled.

The White House physician is accused of excessive drinking on the job and improperly dispensing medication among other offenses.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

The parents of two of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are suing Alex Jones for falsely accusing them of lying about the deaths of their children.

The Director of ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ and ‘Amadeus,’ both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, has died at the age of 86.

Not surprisingly, a joint Senate Committee failed to really lay a glove on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at yesterday’s hearing.

Another Federal Court loss for gun rights activists challenging state laws banning “assault weapons.”

New polling shows that public support for several gun control proposals continue to increase in the wake of February’s shooting at a Parkland, Florida High School.

Organizing protests was the easy part. The hard part for those who would seek to expand gun regulations is yet to come.

We don’t yet have enough information to assign blame here. Naturally, that’s not stopping anyone.

Polls released since the Parkland, Florida shooting show that support for gun control measures is at its highest level since 1993, but will it last?

A big win for gun control advocates in a deeply Republican state.

Is it legal for retail businesses to restrict gun sales based on age? The short answer appears to be yes.

President Trump appeared to change positions on several gun control ideas, but he probably doesn’t mean it.

As with any such discretionary power given to police, it will surely be abused. But the Parkland shooting was yet another in a long line of situations where obvious “red flags” were ignored until it was too late.

New polls show increased support for various gun control measures, including limitations on so-called “assault weapons,” but that doesn’t mean we’re likely to see Congressional action on the subject.

Since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in District of Columbia v. Heller four separate Federal appellate courts have ruled that state and local laws banning “assault weapons” do not violate the Second Amendment.

The students who survived last week’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida are speaking out, and some on the right are responding by engaging in personal attacks and spreading conspiracy theories.

Continuing a pattern that has gone on for eight years now, the Supreme Court has declined to hear another appeal regarding a Second Amendment challenge to state gun control laws.

NRO’s David French offers “A Gun-Control Measure Conservatives Should Consider.”

Bret Stephens thinks so.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

Donald Trump’s irrational tweets are once again focused on the leader of North Korea.

The Supreme Court has declined to hear yet another Second Amendment case.

The shooter in the Texas church shooting was apparently able to get his weapons because the Air Force failed to report his domestic violence conviction.

Republican Lamar Alexander and Democratic Senator Patty Murray say they’ve reached a bipartisan deal to fix an important part of the Affordable Care Act.

New polling shows increased support for gun control measures in the wake of Las Vegas, but it’s not likely to last and it won’t lead to any significant action by Congress.

The District of Columbia has decided not to risk an appeal of a lower court ruling striking down its restrictive concealed-carry law.

A Federal Appeals Court has declined to review a panel decision striking down the District of Columbia’s restrictive concealed-carry law.

More evidence of apparent Russian-backed efforts to interfere in the election.

Not surprisingly, the District of Columbia is seeking review of last month’s decision on its concealed-carry law by the full Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the District of Columbia’s restrictive concealed-carry law.

More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

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