Outside the Beltway

After a long day of hearings, the case against the President is becoming clearer and Republican defenses becoming more absurd.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch described how the President’s allies intimidated her out of her position, while the President intimidated her live on Twitter.

As the impeachment proceedings move forward, Democrats are shifting their focus to a specific, and powerful, charge.

The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a case from Connecticut filed by the parents of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.

There were few fireworks during the first day of public impeachment hearings, but the ground work for a case against the President was laid.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed President Trump a loss in his effort to prevent prosecutors in New York from getting copies of his tax returns.

The next steps in the impeachment process are relatively easy to predict.

Today the House of Representatives approved the procedures for the impeachment proceeding against the President.

It’s not clear if Congresswoman Liz Cheney wants to run for the open Senate seat in Wyoming. If she did, though, she’d be the prohibitive favorite.

They know how Congress works, but are banking on the fact that many Americans don’t.

A Federal District Court Judge gave the House of Representatives, and the nation, a big win yesterday.

George Washington invented the concept and was quite clear that it did not apply to impeachment proceedings.

Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who is basically a non-entity in the race for the Democratic nomination, will not be running for re-election.

The first round of polls after last week’s debate has good news for the former Vice-President.

New polling is showing increased public support for President Trump’s impeachment and removal

A Federal Court has struck down the President’s diversion of funds for his border wall.

An iconic and honorable Member of Congress has passed away.

Fear of Donald Trump and his minions is making it hard for Republicans to answer a simple question.

When the facts make for a poor defense, attack the process.

The White House is doubling down on its illegitimate stonewalling of valid Congressional document requests.

The evidence piles up.

The escalation has been rapid, dramatic, and warranted.

Late last week, a Federal Judge blocked a California law requiring candidates for President and other offices to make copies of their tax returns public.

Once again, a fight is set to brew over funding for the President’s border wall. Will he force another shutdown in an election year?

But, our process to elect the president is highly flawed.

Despite having utterly mishandled both areas when they actually held power, Republicans think they can win back the House of Representatives by focusing on the budget deficit and health care reform.

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

Republicans managed to pull off a narrow win in North Carolina yesterday, but they shouldn’t be celebrating.

Democrat Jon Ossoff has thrown his hat in the ring to challenge David Perdue for Georgia’s Senate seat in 2020.

The Trump Administration from projects to build on-base schools and daycare facilities to spend on his border wall.

Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson will retire at the end of 2019, setting up a contest in 2020 to fill the remainder of his term.

Joe Walsh, a former Tea Party stalwart who served in Congress nine years ago, has thrown his hat in the ring against President Trump for the 2020 GOP Presidential Nomination.

The junior Senator from Massachusetts could be facing a big challenge in 2020.

The Federal Budget Deficit rose 27% in July, putting it on course for the $1 trillion by the end of September.

The Trump campaign and several other parties have filed lawsuits challenging California’s new law requiring candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns.

Thanks to a ruling by the Puerto Rican Supreme Court, the island Commonwealth has its third Governor in less than a week.

In the battle for Senate control in 2020, the conditions appear to favor Republicans. At least for now.

A Republican State Legislator in Nebraska says things that other Republicans don’t have the courage to say.

The only African-American Republican in the House of Representatives is retiring, and that should worry Republicans nationwide.

Embattled Governor Ricardo A. Rosselló has stepped down but succession issues surround the man who took the oath of office late yesterday.

The House Democratic Caucus is becoming more divided on the issue of moving forward with impeachment.

The Mueller hearings don’t appear to have moved the needle of public opinion when it comes to impeachment.

The House Judiciary Committee is seeking to obtain the material presented to a Federal Grand Jury by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Dan Coats is stepping down as Director of National Intelligence, and President Trump wants to replace him with an inexperienced, obsequious toady.

The Supreme Court handed the President a victory last night, ruling that the Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging his funding of the border wall did not have standing to challenge his diversion of Defense Department funds. This may only be a temporary victory, though.

In contrast to the idea of granting statehood to the District of Columbia, the American public appears to strongly support statehood for Puerto RIco.

Former South Carolina Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is reportedly considering an intra-party challenge to President Trump

California’s legislature has passed a law purporting to require candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns, but it’s likely to face legal challenges if it becomes law.

The legal and political showdown between Congress and the White House has entered into a new stage.