Outside the Beltway

Can the fat man take down the elephant in the room?

When we do it, it’s negotiation. When they do it, it’s hostage taking—and terrorism.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

An old soldier has faded away.

Things finally got too weird for his benefactor.

Cheap, big, fast: pick two.

A look back at two decades of blogging.

Here we go again.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

His final resting place pays tribute to his love of OTB and the Yankees.

Are plurality winners less legitimate than popular vote losers?

Unlimited dialog makes conversations harder.

The bar for defaming public officials is too high.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion. Alas.

Yes the riots were a disgrace but the Democrats . . . .

But only the original books, not the Disney adaptations.

Family, football, feasting, and flashbacks.

Two decades after a day we’ll not forget.

What we know thus far.

The longtime OTB front-pager has passed far too soon.

The long shift of population from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt continues—with the unusual exception of California.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

He probably lacks the legal authority. And business interests in is state will fight hard against him.

Competing analogies and externalities.

The annual gathering showed us what the Republican Party would become years ago.

Some guy you never heard of is the guy.

Two related discussions.

The Supreme Court isn’t taking much of a break this year.

States can punish Electors who substitute their judgment for those of the voters.

A too-long discourse on how courts should function.

A stroll down memory lane.

A discussion of what #NeverTrump means, on Sanders v. Trump, and some about the philosophy of voting.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

Dennis Prager makes me feel like we are living in the Upside Down.

The Commonwealth is about to become the 38th State to ratify the Nixon-era Amendment.

More evidence that Trump really doesn’t know what he is doing. (Or just doesn’t care).

Let’s be clear-eyed about this.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the PPACA”s individual mandate unconstitutional but left the fate of the rest of the law unresolved.

The President of the United States has sent a bizarre, rant-filled letter to the Speaker of the House. Revealing just how unbalanced he actually is.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked a Mississippi law that banned nearly all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.

The House Judiciary Committee has issued its report on the impeachment of President Trump.

I think Representative Van Drew has made a miscalculation.

Continuing a discuss from below.

The House Judiciary Committee moved one step closer to impeachment.

George Zimmerman has filed a bizarre conspiracy theory-laden lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family, prosecutors, and others.

The House Intelligence Committee has released its report resulting from its investigation of the Ukraine scandal.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court heard a significant Second Amendment case, but it is unlikely to rule on the merits of the case.