Outside the Beltway

Robert Mueller has some questions for the President, and the wide range of topic areas should worry President Trump significantly.

Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is suing several of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct during last year’s campaign.

Republicans joined with Democrats to advance a bill to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but it’s unlikely to go anywhere beyond that.

Republicans are planning on pushing judicial nominees through the Senate in case they lose control in November. Meanwhile, the possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy raises the stakes.

The highest ranking Democrat in the Senate has introduced a bill that would effectively decriminalize marijuana nationwide and leave it up to each state to decide how far they wish to go with regard to cannabis regulation. It’s a huge step in the right direction.

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a Trump Administration Order that purported to punish so-called ‘sanctuary cities.’

Former F.B.I, Director James Comey’s memos regarding his meeting with Donald Trump early in 2017 have been released, and they corroborate everything Comey has said about those conversations.

If we’re going to have a death penalty, he was its poster boy.

Controversies involving Jimmy Kimmel and “The Simpsons” highlight a perennial question.

President Trump isn’t reacting well to the raid on his attorney’s office.

President Trump wants to send the military to the Mexican border. This is both unnecessary and a bad idea.

He cooperated with the FBI. He was arrested by ICE.

The Department Of Justice is proposing a rule change that would ban bump stocks, but it could run into legal problems.

Andrew McCabe, fired for a “lack of candor,” ordered an investigation of the Attorney General for a “lack of candor.”

The fact that Andrew McCabe was fired before he could retire means that he will lose out on some significant pension benefits, but. contrary to some media reporting, he won’t lose his pension completely.

Lawfare provides a balanced piece on the firing of Andrew McCabe.

Less than 24 hours after the McCabe firing, the president’s attorney explicitly connects the move to the Mueller probe.

The FBI’s former deputy director was shamefully fired late Friday night, after which President Trump gloated on Twitter.

Individual races are idiosyncratic. But there are nonetheless some lessons here.

Tomorrow’s Special Election in Pennsylvania isn’t looking good for Republicans, even if their candidate manages to eke out a win.

The Federal Government has fired another shot in the ongoing war over so-called “sanctuary cities.”

The legal distinction between “personal capacity” and “official capacity” makes no sense for senior presidential appointees.

After skipping such events in his first thirteen months in office, the President tried his hand at stand-up last night to mixed reviews.

Yet another top appointee is in the awkward position of having to defend himself from the Tweeter-in-Chief.

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have released a memo that completely eviscerates the memo prepared by Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.

President Trump is calling on the Justice Department to ban bump stocks, but it seems clear that this is an area where Congress needs to be taking the lead.

Donald Trump’s dereliction of duty in response to clear evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election is a staggering and flagrant dereliction of the duties he agreed to take on when he took the Oath Of Office more than a year ago.

Mueller tightens the screws even further.

Donald Trump is now claiming that he had never denied that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. This is, of course, not true.

A significant and important development in the Russia investigation that shows that President Trump’s claim that the stories of Russian interference in the 2016 election were “Fake News” is completely untrue.

Despite what his own intelligence chiefs are saying, President Trump still does not believe that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

Another Federal Judge has placed a hold on President Trump’s order to end DACA.

The Department of Education announced yesterday that it will no longer investigate civil rights complaints from transgender students regarding bathroom access in public schools.

A Federal Court in New York City is set to hear argument tomorrow in a case that essentially argues that a large swath of Federal laws regarding marijuana are unconstitutional.

Will Joe Arpaio cause the GOP to lose an otherwise winnable Senate race?

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

And the evidence for obstruction of justice continues to mount.

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

Steve Bannon loses his position at Breitbart after his blistering comments about the President and others in the Administration became public.

The Trump Administration is reversing policy on an Obama Era policy that allowed states to choose their own course on marijuana laws.

Whatever goodwill may have existed between the Trump Administration and Steve Bannon appears to have evaporated.

Roy Moore continues to think that he is special.

Roy Moore isn’t giving up, but he can’t stop the inevitable.

Report that President Trump considered withdrawing the Gorsuch nomination are another sign of his unhealthy obsession with pledges of loyalty from people who have no business giving it to him.

In what amounts to an electoral perfect storm, Democratic nominee Doug Jones pulled off a win last night in the Alabama Senate Election.

Polling remains uncertain in the Alabama Senate race, but the odds favor Roy Moore.

Explaining what Tuesday is likely to bring.

Mueller crosses Trump’s “red line.”

The Supreme Court is allowing the latest version of Donald Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban to go into effect.

President Trump has formally endorsed an accused child molester for the United States Senate.