Outside the Beltway

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

Tuesday’s elections continued a trend in which Republicans have lost support among suburban voters, even in deeply red states. Guess who’s responsible for that.

Twitter is banning all political advertising from its site. It is a largely meaningless decision, but it’s still a bad idea.

Former North Caroline Senator Kay Hagan has died,

After coming under fire for a decision designed primarily to benefit himself and his family, President Trump has decided to walk back the decision to hold the next G-7 Summit at one of his properties.

The same Republicans who were outraged over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server are silent about the use of private apps by Trump officials.

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

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

Someone’s not pleased with President Trump.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

Just over a week after Dan Coats announced he was stepping own as Director of National Intelligence, there are more shakeups at the top of the U.S. intelligence community.

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

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

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

The President’s decision to base his re-election campaign on racism and stoking racial and ethnic divisions is quite simple to explain.

Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail last night with another one of his red meat speeches. The analogies it causes one to draw are chilling to say the least.

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

Kris Kobach, former Kansas Secretary of State and former head of President Trump’s “Voter Fraud” Commission, is running for Senator in Kansas.

A law review article written when the former was a student provides an interesting contrast.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

A leading same-sex marriage advocate is pushing back on the trans movement.

In a clear defeat for the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that the Federal Government could not ask about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

In a significant setback for challenges to partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court has effectively ruled that Federal Courts do not have jurisdiction to hear challenges to redistricting based on partisan motivations.

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

As the Supreme Court enters the final weeks of its term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at deep divisions and disappointment for people on the left.

The original ‘scandal’ was silly. The follow-up is sillier.

Starting tomorrow, we should be getting some headline-grabbing opinions from the Supreme Court.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.

An absurd theory for an absurd time.

Recent poll numbers suggest that the President is vulnerable in the part of the country that assured his Electoral College victory in 2020, but Democrats are going to have to work hard to flip these states.

A panel of three Federal Judges has found Ohio’s Congressional District map to be unconstitutional, but a case currently pending before the Supreme Court could mute the impact of this decision.

A months-long standoff is stopping hurricane relief.

A new poll shows President Trump struggling against four of his potential 2020 challengers. Should Republicans be worried and Democrats elated? It’s too early to tell.

Ballot measures across the country would deny access to those who refuse to release tax returns.

A Federal Court in Michigan has found several of that state’s Congressional and state legislative districts to have been subject to extreme partisan gerrymandering.

Trump campaign officials are worried about the President’s chances of holding onto a state that was crucial to his win in 2020. They should be.

Donald Trump speaks largely just to his base, ignoring the nation as a whole. Whether this will be enough to win re-election in 2020 is an open question.

President Trump has not surprisingly vetoed a Congressional resolution to limit American support for the Saudi war on Yemen. His defense for doing so is utterly absurd.

Well, that can’t be good.

Howdy, folks. I’m Butch Bracknell.

Very little of our vast landmass is densely populated with humans.

Princeton historian Sean Wilentz lays to rest a pernicious idea propagated by . . . Princeton historian Sean Wilentz.

Oral argument hints that we may have a 5-4 ruling allowing state legislatures to continue stacking the deck.

Only the best people, dontcha know.

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

How finite is prestige?

Congress is doing its damned job for a change.

For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.