Outside the Beltway

He probably lacks the legal authority. And business interests in is state will fight hard against him.

HR1 is a national approach to expanding voter access. State legislatures are trying to both expand and restrict the vote as well.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

Too little, too late.

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

Predicting a Biden wave.

Alabama’s head football coach and athletic director have both tested positive for COVID-19.

Injecting data into the conversation.

Yet another twist in an ongoing saga.

The legendary Georgetown basketball coach is gone.

The President has hit rock bottom.

Yet another incumbent has lost his primary contest.

We were much slower and have higher non-conformity than countries that have it under control.

The race is over but Bernie’s still running.

He’s a long way from 1991 delegates but no one can beat him.

A bad night for Bloomberg and Warren has radically reshaped the race.

The primary season has just started. It is almost over.

A legendary newsman has passed.

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.

Thirty years ago today, history took off in a brand new direction.

A Federal District court Judge in Alabama has blocked implementation of that state’s latest attempt to challenge Roe v. Wade

Late last week, a Federal Judge in California placed on hold a state law requiring candidates to provide copies of their tax returns.

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.

The effort to bring Catholic Church officials to justice for their decades of criminal conspiracy and child abuse continues to move forward.

Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of a Presidential race few people realized she was in.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

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.

Dozens of well-off students from the Chicago area are getting college subsidies.

The evidence is clear that Russia interfered in the election in 2016 and intends to do so again. Despite this, Mitch McConnell is blocking legislation designed to enhance election security.

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

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.

Various federal and state agencies are enforcing existing laws while Congress scrambles to update them.

A new poll finds that public support for abortion rights is increasing, but it also shows growing support for extreme views at both ends of the spectrum.

Kamala Harris is trying to jump-start her Presidential campaign with an idea for a new law, but it’s probably unconstitutional and would never get through Congress.

New polling shows support for abortion rights rising amid a plethora of new laws aimed at striking down Roe v. Wade

White House aides asked the Navy to keep the USS John McCain “out of sight” while the President visited a Navy base in Japan earlier this week.

The Supreme Court sent a signal yesterday that seems to indicate how it might deal with future abortion law challenges and it doesn’t bode well for pro-lifers.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against Alabama’s patently unconstitutional abortion law.

A new poll shows that roughly two-thirds of Americans, including a large number of Republicans, do not want to see Roe v. Wade overturned.

Republicans have spent the past week putting as much distance as they can between themselves and the latest round of radical anti-abortion laws.

Following in the footsteps of Alabama, the Missouri legislature has passed a law that would severely restrict abortion rights in the Show Me State.

As it has in so many other areas, the right has sacrificed it’s previously held beliefs on international trade to feckless obedience toward President Trump.

California is the latest state to try to force all Presidential candidates, including the President, to release their tax returns as a condition for getting on the ballot. It’s not at all clear that this is permitted under the Constitution.

A novel argument, untested in court, suggests that it might.

The replacement of Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh is already having a significant impact.

Based on his job approval numbers, President Trump could face an uphill battle in 2020.

After a week of scandal and chaos in Virginia politics, there’s no sign that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is going anywhere, and there’s very little that can be done to force him out of office.

Former Senator and Denocratic Presidential candidate Jim Webb is reportedly being considered for Defense Secretary.

My mother has passed, aged 75 years.