Outside the Beltway

A big win for Federalism and common sense at the Supreme Court.

Joe Manchin looks to be facing a strong challenge from Patrick Morrisey.

Despite the fact that President Trump’s continues to praise him, Ronny Jackson will not be returning to the White House as the President’s personal physician.

The White House is pushing back on the allegations of misconduct that were made against Ronny Jackson this week, and trying to use them in a high-profile Senate race in Montana.

Not unexpectedly, Ronny Jackson has withdrawn his nomination to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

With the accusations mounting, the nomination of Ronny Jackson to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs is becoming more and more imperiled.

For better or worse, Mike Pompeo will be confirmed as the 70th Secretary of State by the end of this week.

The White House physician is accused of excessive drinking on the job and improperly dispensing medication among other offenses.

Despite facing headwinds in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mike Pompeo will probably be confirmed as the next Secretary of State. That’s unfortunate.

Late last week, Hawaii became the seventh state and eighth major American jurisdiction to legalize assisted suicide.

Trump’s tariff plan isn’t going over well in farm country, and that could cause problems for the GOP in November.

Conor Lamb’s win in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District has set off an inevitable debate inside the Democratic Party about how to approach the upcoming midterm elections.

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

Democrats appear to have regained momentum in the Generic Congressional Ballot.

New polls show increased support for various gun control measures, including limitations on so-called “assault weapons,” but that doesn’t mean we’re likely to see Congressional action on the subject.

Recent polls have caused Republicans to become more optimistic about their chances in this year’s midterms. That optimism is both premature and misplaced.

With the results from Alabama. the GOP faces a hard road ahead defending its majority in the Senate.

There are no good outcomes for the GOP in Alabama.

The Supreme Court heard argument today in a case challenging a 1992 law barring sports gambling in all but a handful of states, and the Justices appeared skeptical of the law.

Jim Nabors, who became famous as Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle USMC, has died at the age of  87.

With time running out in the year, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that the Senate GOP will be able to meet its deadlines on passing a tax reform bill.

The early numbers in the battle to control Congress look good for Democrats, but there are are a number of caveats to keep in mind.

Trump loses his HHS Secretary amid a growing scandal involving the use of private and government jets by Cabinet officials.

Thoughts on the quality of our democracy.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving New Jersey’s challenge to a Federal law outlawing sports betting.

In one of the most closely watched Special Elections in American history, the outcome turned out to be not entirely surprising.

Greg Gianforte assaulted a reporter. Now he’s going to Congress, but the outcome of the election really shouldn’t be a surprise.

The Republican candidate in today’s Special Election in Montana has been charged with assaulting a reporter.

There’s a Special Election in Montana tomorrow, and the Democratic candidate is performing far above expectations.

Democrats came close to picking up what has been a solidly Republican seat for nearly forty years but ended up falling short. Instead, we’ll have a runoff in two months.

Next week’s big news is likely to be the Senate’s vote to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, which could mean invocation of the so-called ‘nuclear option’ by Senate Republicans.

Independent of the current controversy surrounding President Trump’s immigration order, Republicans in Congress are looking at a plan to break up the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

As things stand, Democrats will have a hard time winning back control in the Senate in 2018.

Just 1,436 days until Election Day 2020!

The President-elect lost the popular vote. Legally, that is the way that is it. This is a disgrace for “the Greatest Democracy in the World.”

The candidate I voted for got more than 200,000 votes for president than the winner. I’m okay with that.

If polls are any indication, voters are set to legalize marijuana in five more states on Tuesday.

Republican candidates for the Senate and House are campaigning on the argument that they will be a bulwark against a Clinton Presidency.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

There’s nothing compasssionate about protectionism.

Responding to comments on this morning’s post.

On the left and the right, there’s been a resurgence of a long-ago discredited economy theory.