Outside the Beltway

William Barr, who served as Attorney General under President George H.W. Bush, has been selected to replace Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

Citing substantial cooperation, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is recommending no jail time for former Trump associate Michael Flynn.

President Trump has canceled a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the recent confrontation between Russia and Ukraine in the Black Sea.

Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen plead guilty to lying to Congress about Trump’s business dealings with Russia, and has agreed to cooperate with Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Paul Manafort finds himself in new legal trouble after Special Counsel Robert Mueller accused him of lying after entering a plea agreement.

President Trump’s latest attack on the Federal Judiciary prompted a rare rebuke from the Chief Justice of the United States.

Three Democratic Senators are suing the Acting Attorney General, asserting that his appointment was unconstitutional.

A new report indicates that President Trump wanted to use the Justice Department to target political enemies. The last time that happened, it led to Articles of Impeachment.

Despite a court ruling that says otherwise, the Trump White House appears prepared to once again revoke the press pass of CNN reporter Jim Acosta.

A filing in an unrelated case has apparently revealed the existence of a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Losing the midterms is not going over well with the President.

New reports indicate that Donald Trump was closely involved in the efforts to buy the silence of a Playboy model and a former adult film star.

President Trump’s selection to serve as Acting Attorney General does not appear to be Constitutionally authorized to serve in that position.

President Trump has fired his Attorney General, a move than many are interpreting as the precursor to a move against Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

When do we stop pretending that Fox News Channel is anything other than State Run Media for the Trump Administration?

The GOP is likely to lose control of the House of Representatives tomorrow, but could this actually help Trump?

A bunch of mysteriously sealed filings in Federal Court in D.C. could mean that Robert Mueller has already subpoenaed the President.

Robert Mueller’s office has referred an apparent effort to bribe women into making allegations against him to the F.B.I.

Donald Trump is talking about a tax cut that appears to exist only in his own mind.

The Russians are interfering in our electoral system again, and they’re using our own hyperpartisanship to accomplish their goals.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

At this point, corruption, dishonesty, and insanity are just baked in.

Debunking a theory for why the Kavanaugh nomination was supposedly “rushed.”

A new report from The New York Times is likely to cause President Trump’s war on the Justice Department to heat up.

Donald Trump has been in office just over 600 days, and he’s proven beyond any doubt that he doesn’t care if what he says is the truth or not.

Another day, another plea agreement in the Mueller investigation. This one could prove to be problematic for the President.

President Trump has made no secret of the fact that he is displeased with the performance of Jeff Sessions, but he could find it hard to replace him.

With a new trial set to start in Washington at the end of the month, reports are circulating that President Trump’s former campaign manager is looking to cut a plea deal.

Trump has an autocrat’s view of justice.

Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos received a very generous sentence in return for his guilty plea.

Donald Trump is a bad, inept, and potentially dangerous President. That doesn’t mean that a ‘soft coup’ inside the White House is the answer to the problem he presents to our democratic republic.

In an extraordinary anonymous Op-Ed, a senior White House official describes a White House in chaos.

Donald Trump spent part of Labor Day engaged in yet another unhinged attack on his own Justice Department.

A new book by legendary Washington reporter Bob Woodward appears to contain explosive revelations about the President and the operation of the White House.

As the midterms get closer, the public’s perception of the President’s job performance is getting worse.

Recently indicted Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr. is blaming his apparently estranged wife and the so-called “Deep State” for the fact that he’s charged with embezzling a quarter million dollars from his campaign.

Tom Nichols argues it should. I disagree.

Max Boot proclaims “Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud.”

It’s not obvious that two more felons in the Trump inner circle will have any immediate impact.

Robert Mueller and his legal team get their first victories in court.

Once again, the President has thrown the Rule of Law under the bus.

Orwell lives.

The Virginia case against Paul Manafort went to the jury on Thursday, and now everyone waits for their verdict.

The former CIA Director has been stripped of his access to classified information after repeatedly criticizing the President.

In what appears to be a move based purely on vindictiveness, President Trump has revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.

Russia’s real goal in interfering in American elections may not have anything to do with favoring one candidate over another.

The noose around the Trump Administration just keeps getting tighter.

A Special Election tomorrow in suburban Columbus, Ohio could tell us a lot about where the midterm elections might be headed.

President Trump says he wants to talk to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but his own lawyers clearly don’t trust him enough to allow that to go forward.

Another morning, and another unhinged Twitter attack on the Mueller investigation by a President who claims the entire investigation is a “hoax” and “Fake News.”