Outside the Beltway

President Trump wants to send the military to the Mexican border. This is both unnecessary and a bad idea.

Robert Mueller is telling the President’s lawyers that Trump is a “subject” of his investigation, but not a “target,” that’s not as significant a distinction as it may seem to be.

New York and nearly two dozen other jurisdictions have filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the Trump Administration from asking about citizenship in the 2020 Census.

California has pushed back quickly against the Trump Administration’s decision to include a question regarding citizenship in the 2020 Census.

Organizing protests was the easy part. The hard part for those who would seek to expand gun regulations is yet to come.

The Department Of Justice is proposing a rule change that would ban bump stocks, but it could run into legal problems.

Mississippi’s Governor has chosen a replacement for Thad Cochran, but the White House isn’t too happy about the pick.

If there are charges of criminal wrongdoing, we’ll definitely know. Otherwise, it all depends on how he sees his role.

Mississippi has passed a law that seems designed to directly challenge the underpinnings of Roe v. Wade.

The family real estate business made tens of millions through shady dealings.

Best known as a television host, he served in the Reagan administration and chief economist of Bear Stearns.

It is a fair question. But judging the Trump administration on tax cuts, Gorsuch, and the DJIA is to ignore a lot of profound problems.

Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.

The Federal Government has fired another shot in the ongoing war over so-called “sanctuary cities.”

A group of twenty states have revived an old argument to mount a new legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

Staffers are fleeing the administration like rats from a sinking ship.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case pitting the First Amendment against the right of states to regulate elections.

Despite the activism we’ve seen in the wake of the school shooting in Florida, it’s unlikely that we’ll see significant Congressional action on guns.

Presidents are much more constrained in issuing and rolling back regulations than they or the public think.

President Trump is calling on the Justice Department to ban bump stocks, but it seems clear that this is an area where Congress needs to be taking the lead.

A series of scandals at Oxfam and other charitable organizations raise troubling questions.

Another Federal Judge has placed a hold on President Trump’s order to end DACA.

The Department of Education announced yesterday that it will no longer investigate civil rights complaints from transgender students regarding bathroom access in public schools.

The Judge presiding over a case dealing with Trump’s proposed border wall expressed doubts about the project. The President will no doubt be irked by the identity of that Judge.

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

After spending much of 2017 trying to do it, Republicans are giving up on any effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act before the midterms.

Chelsea Manning is running for Senate, but she may be violating military regulations by doing so.

The President talked about national unity last night, but given his own rhetoric as a candidate and as a President, it’s a call that seems to be hypocritical.

A group of 21 states has filed a petition to review the F.C.C.’s recent net neutrality rule changes, but it faces an uncertain future.

A Federal Judge has put a hold on the impending end of the DACA program.

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.

Donald Trump has been President 300 days and the record reveals no real accomplishments and increased dissatisfaction with the job he’s doing.

A Fox News host has debunked the Uranium One conspiracy theory being pushed by his own network.

The shooter in the Texas church shooting was apparently able to get his weapons because the Air Force failed to report his domestic violence conviction.

The first shoes appear ready to drop in Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign.

Donald Trump’s entire modus operandi involves pushing divisive cultural hot buttons.

The District of Columbia has decided not to risk an appeal of a lower court ruling striking down its restrictive concealed-carry law.

Roy Moore’s victory in Alabama is raising fears of a wider battle in the Republican Party heading into 2018.

Republicans finally unveiled the outlines of a tax reform package yesterday, but the devil is in the still to be determined details.

Progress in Saudi Arabia, but there’s still a long way for this backward, discriminatory society to go.

The GOP’s effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act appears to suffer a fatal blow as Senator John McCain announced his opposition to what is the last gasp of that effort in the Senate.

Yet another lawsuit against yet another controversial Trump Administration policy.

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

Republicans on Capitol Hill and elsewhere were gambling when they lined up behind Donald Trump. So far, they’ve lost.

The University of California has joined the list of Plaintiffs suing the Trump Administration over its decision to end DACA.

President Trump likes to take credit for the state of the economy, but the truth is that things are actually doing slightly worse under his Administration than they were under his predecessor.

Not surprisingly, the District of Columbia is seeking review of last month’s decision on its concealed-carry law by the full Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Trump’s legislative accomplishments have been anemic at best.

Three new polls show Trump’s job approval down significantly in the three states that put him over the top in the Electoral College last year.