Outside the Beltway

Republicans are trying to fight back against efforts to limit their ability to gerrymander Congressional and State Legislative Districts. It’s a fight they deserve to lose.

Ohio voters have approved a referendum designed to reform the manner in which district lines are drawn.

Republican chances to hold the Senate were boosted in West Virginia last night thanks to the fact that a fringe candidate was soundly defeated.

After hastily removing the House Chaplain under unclear circumstances, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has reversed himself.

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

The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in a case alleging that Texas’s Congressional and state legislative districts were drawn with the intent to discriminate based on race.

Republicans on Capitol Hill and in positions of power are slavishly backing their President over their country. They should be ashamed.

The long-time public radio host has died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.

The ‘permanent record’ of yesteryear is now real. Should there be limitations?

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in the second partisan gerrymandering case of the term, and once again they appear to be divided.

Like many Presidents before him, Donald Trump wants a line-item veto. Getting there won’t be easy, nor should it be.

The near-impossible happened last night, demonstrating why March Madness is the most exciting and most absurd way to pick a champion.

Billy Graham was the son of a North Carolina farmer who grew up to become a counselor to Presidents, Prime Ministers, and even a Queen.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has redrawn the state’s Congressional Districts based on its recent ruling finding the current map to be unconstitutional partisan Gerrymandering. It makes a lot more sense than the map the state is currently using.

The Supreme Court has declined to stay a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling requiring the legislature to redraw the state’s Congressional District map.

Two Amtrak crashes in less than a week is newsworthy. It is not, however, a trend.

Despite mounting evidence and outrageous behavior, Republicans nationwide and on Capitol Hill continue to do the Administration’s dirty work. They’ll most likely live to regret it.

Another win for forces fighting partisan Gerrymandering.

A Federal Court in North Carolina has issued a stinging ruling against the partisan gerrymandering undertaken by the Republican legislature in that state.

President Trump has shut down the commission he established to investigate unsupported claims of “voter fraud” in the 2016 election.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a second case dealing with political Gerrymandering.

For a guy who considers the Russia investigation “Fake News,” President Trump sure is doing a lot to try to stop it.

House Republicans passed their tax reform bill. That was the easy part.

Will Joe Biden be ‘tan, rested, and ready’ enough to take on 2020?

Republicans have a Donald Trump problem, and they can’t run away from it.

And even moreso when they are consciously created by the winner.

The Trump Administration has been hit with two new lawsuits over the President’s decision to end the DACA program.

Ed Gillespie, the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia, has come out against the most recent immigration-related action by the national leader of his party.

Once again, the National Football League sees its disciplinary and appeal process criticized by a Federal Judge.

Two polls find that most Americans support letting DACA beneficiaries to stay in the United States. Will that help move Congress to act?

The Trump Administration announced today that the program that provided deportation relief to nearly a million people brought to the United States as children would end unless Congress acts to save it.

President Trump is threatening to end a program that has benefited at least 750,000 innocent people.

President Trump’s reaction to the terror attack in Spain included an easily debunked lie about one of America’s most decorated Generals.

We can not condone vandalism and worse.

Another failed attempt to demonstrate the problems of voter fraud in the US.

Thoughts on the quality of our democracy.

Twitter users who have been blocked on the service by President Trump are suing him, claiming that their First Amendment rights have been violated.

More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

The Supreme Court rules that states cannot bar convicted felons from using social media sites.

Hillary Clinton is blaming everyone she can for her loss, except the most obvious suspects.

Lt. General Michael Flynn is declining to comply with a Congressional subpoena regarding the Russia investigation, and invoking his rights under the Fifth Amendment.

An important redistricting decision was handed down by the Supreme Court today.

Coming to a television set or Internet livestream near you sometime after Memorial Day.

The Anthony Weiner saga comes to an ignominious end.

Two years after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, nearly two-thirds of Americans support the idea of legal marriage rights for gay and lesbian Americans.

How close to success is the National Popular Vote initiative? (Spoiler alert: not close).

Judge Gorsuch is now Justice Gorsuch and it’s time to hit the ground running.

A major legislative defeat for Paul Ryan, the House GOP, and President Trump.

The Trump Administration has issued an ultimatum, but the fate of the American Health Care Act is still very much up in the air.