Outside the Beltway

The Emoluments Clause is essentially unenforceable.

I couldn’t help myself.

A clever political gambit that raises real issues.

Definitions are fun, right?

An interesting but unlikely-to-pass bill is about to be introduced.

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

More on SCOTUS expansion and other issues.

Legitimacy hangs in the balance.

The American political system is broken but it’s not fair to blame that on its architects.

A quick overview and some examples to start a longer conversation.

An open Senate race is now much more likely to stay Republican.

Shame on him for defending authoritarian actions.

A civil rights legend has passed.

It’s just not immediate.

Conspiracy theories are poisoning the United States. That’s no joke.

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.

It creates a veto gate that they are almost guaranteed to control when they need it.

The writing is on the wall for simple-majority voting in the Senate.

The Magnolia State is the last in the nation to have the stars and bars on its state banner.

The 6-3 opinion written by Justice Gorsuch and joined by Chief Justice Roberts defies conventional wisdom.

How do we balance societal and individual rights during a pandemic?

Republicans are half as likely to take the outbreak seriously.

Lack of control of label is lack of control, ultimately, of a party.

The State of the Union is petulant.

The House decides what is impeachable.

To defang impeachment is an invitation for presidents to ignore the rule of law.

It’s been quite a year, and quite a decade.

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

It could take weeks to resolve the impasse between the House and Senate over the procedures to be followed in the Senate trial of President Trump.

Tulsi Gabbard is under fire back home for her vote on impeachment and for missing votes on the House floor.

Some comparative history.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is suggesting she might hold back on sending the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. This seems like a bad idea.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

After months of silence, Maine Senator Susan Collins has announced that she is running for a fifth term in office.

By the end of today, Donald Trump will most likely be the third President of the United States to be impeached by the House of Representatives.

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.

With the House of Representatives just days away from impeaching President Trump, polling shows that public opinion on the issue has not changed much since October.

Democratic Congressman Jeff van Drew of New Jersey is reportedly switching parties

The trial phase of the Trump impeachment is set to be an absolute partisan joke.

For only the fourth time in history, the House Judiciary Committee has approved Articles of Impeachment against a sitting President.

Two Federal Courts have blocked the Administration from diverting Defense Department funds to pay for the President’s border wall

Kamala Harris didn’t fail because of her race, she failed because she was a bad candidate.

After a two-year investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found no basis for the conspiracy theories being pushed by the Republicans regarding the Russia investigation.

Why mount a defense when you can go make a TV show in Ukraine?

The House Judiciary Committee moved one step closer to impeachment.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

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.

In the wake of yesterday’s hearing, the House of Representatives is taking the inevitable next step.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

A Senate Impeachment trial in early January would have a serious impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.