Outside the Beltway

Robert Mueller didn’t provide a smoking gun yesterday, but the President and his supporters are wrong to claim that the hearing vindicated the President.

Starting at 8:30 a.m. this morning, the eyes and ears of Washington and much of the nation will be focus on one thing, the testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

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

Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before Congress in public. Testimony that is likely to be the big story of the summer.

Congress is considering a bill that would establish a commission to examine the issue of reparations for slavery.;

Hope Hicks, a former top aide to Donald Trump during the campaign and in the White House, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee.

The President is once again claiming Executive Privilege to prevent Congress from getting access to certain documents.

With the Trump Administration continuing to stonewall investigations, the House of Representatives is seeking to ramp up the pressure.

The President and his supporters are touting the last-minute deal with Mexico announced on Friday, but the details show there’s much less than meets the eye.

The White House is continuing to stonewall legitimate Congressional investigations, but Congress is starting to push back.

The House of Representatives will vote to hold the Attorney General in contempt next week but it may not mean anything.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has ruled out what would essentially be a quixotic primary challenge against President Trump.

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.

As the Administration continues to stonewall legitimate requests from Congress for documents and witnesses, pressure is growing on Speaker Pelosi to authorize the opening of an impeachment inquiry.

In the latest example of the White House’s ongoing effort to block Congress from exercising its duty to investigate the Executive Branch, the White House is blocking the former White House Counsel from testifying before Congress.

An absurd theory for an absurd time.

Right now, polling indicates that the American public is reluctant to support impeachment of the President but it’s possible that could change.

As expected, the House Judiciary Committee voted yesterday on party lines to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for refusing to turn over a full copy of the Mueller Report

In an effort to block the release of the full report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Trump Administration is invoking Executive Privilege.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared “case closed” on the Mueller Report and the Russia investigation. This is far from the truth.

Later this week, the House Judiciary Committee will vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt, but it most likely won’t go anywhere.

As I have noted before: party trumps institutional pride. The Barr testimony is just another example.

Robert Mueller objected to the Attorney General’s characterization of the final report he submitted, reports indicate.

Six Democrats are boycotting on principle. Four Republicans don’t care.

A new poll finds that most Americans do not support impeaching the President at this time, but they also don’t believe the President on the issues of Russian interference and obstruction.

Having lost to him, she’s an ineffective voice on the matter of Donald Trump.

The Justice Department will release a ‘lightly redacted’ version of the 400-page report at 11 Eastern.

The President is an ignoramus and a blowhard and a petulant child but he’s operating within the Constitutional limits of his office.

A new report indicates that President Trump wanted to use the Justice Department to target political enemies. The last time that happened, it led to Articles of Impeachment.

New polling in a bellwether Congressional District in Northern Virginia appears to signal bad news ahead for the GOP.

Senator Tim Kaine continues to maintain a huge lead over Corey Stewart in the Virginia Senate Race.

Nominating Corey Stewart is beginning to look like the biggest mistake Virginia Republicans have ever made.

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

Republicans on Capitol Hill and in positions of power are slavishly backing their President over their country. They should be ashamed.

The prospect for a fix to help DACA beneficiaries is looking gloomier than ever.

Yet another demand for a loyalty pledge from a law enforcement official by a President under investigation.

Don’t hold your breath, but the Las Vegas shooting may actually prompt Congress to do something.

Trump makes a DACA deal, apparently.

President Trump says he’d be willing to testify under oath in response to former F.B.I Director Comey’s accusations. That would be a mistake for several reasons.

On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.

Impeachment fantasies are the new EC fantasy.

The man who was brought in to clean up the I.R.S. after the alleged targeting scandal became public is facing censure and possible impeachment. Proving that there really is such a thing as a thankless job.

A Federal Judge in New York has denied an F.B.I. request to force Apple to extract data from iPhones involved in a Federal drug case.

Because that’s what White Houseses do.

The House Committee investigating the IRS targeting scandal will consider impeaching the I.R.S. Commissioner over issues that are, at beast, only tangentially related to the scandal itself.

The Senate returns tomorrow to try to pass an extension of the PATRIOT Act before it expires, but it may not be able to do so.