Outside the Beltway

Holding the president accountable is hard.

The AG is not supposed to be the President’s personal attorney.

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

The AG is Trump’s lawyer, not ours.

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.

For the second time, the chief federal prosecutor for Manhattan has been fired.

How to translate understandable frustration at injustice into tangible reform?

Outside agitators, including white supremacist groups, are shaping public perception of the George Floyd protests.

A stroll down memory lane.

The President is sending a terrible message.

The President has been Twitter on their own platform. Now, he’s following through.

Likely the right outcome but I wish I political motivation weren’t the default presumption.

The Barr DOJ’s attempt to retcon the Flynn case has created a major problem for Flynn.

But they weren’t shouting it from the rooftops.

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

The Attorney General claims to be frustrated by Presidential tweets that undermine his department.

A feminist icon offers some advice her allies will not want to hear.

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

A newly filed lawsuit seeks to blunt expected efforts in 2020 to “ratify” the Equal Rights Amendment even though it effectively died nearly 40 years ago.

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 impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

A Justice Department official who had the courage to stand up to the President has died at the age of 87.

POTUS believes, and is propagating, a conspiracy theory.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled against the Trump Administration’s latest effort to stonewall Congressional inquiries.

An internal Justice Department investigation fails to find any evidence of political bias in the Russia investigation.

Lock her up?

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

Jeff Sessions demonstrates just how obsequious he’s willing to be to get his Senate seat back.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has entered the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

Jeff Sessions is running to win back his old Senate seat, putting into play the possibility of a clash with President Trump.

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.

Former Senator and Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly considering running for his old Senate seat.

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

What started out as a joke on the campaign trail has turned into a serious legal argument being made to a Federal Judge by an attorney for the President.

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

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is under criminal investigation by the same office he once headed as U.S. Attorney.

Republicans face a choice. Do they put their country first, or do they put their President first?

A Federal Judge rejected the President’s effort to block a New York City prosecutor from obtaining copies of his tax returns.

A second potential whistleblower and an apparent criminal referral from the CIA’s top lawyer make a bad week even worse for Donald Trump.

A Senate report alleges that the National Rifle Association allowed itself to become a Russian asset,

It’s not just Ukraine.

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

The White House has released a summary of the July 25th phone call between President Trump and the President of Ukraine. It doesn’t help President Trump or his defenders.

The details about President Trump’s attempts to get Ukraine to investigate the son of one of his potential 2020 rivals keep getting worse for the President.

A wrongheaded solution for a legitimate problem.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

While some Democrats are calling for the impeachment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on Capitol Hill aren’t nearly as eager to go down that road.