Outside the Beltway

Lindsey Graham faces a potentially interesting challenge in his 2020 re-election bid.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Why mount a defense when you can go make a TV show in Ukraine?

The House Judiciary Committee moved one step closer to impeachment.

Those Republicans who recognize how bad President Trump is for he nation but are afraid to speak out against him are as bad as the true believers of Cult45.

In the wake of yesterday’s hearing, the House of Representatives is taking the inevitable next step.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

The House Intelligence Committee has released its report resulting from its investigation of the Ukraine scandal.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

Seeking to have a US citizen investigated by a foreign government based on innuendo is a major problem.

The vultures keep circling above the head of “America’s Mayor.”

New revelations punch a big hole in Republican defenses of the President.

After two weeks of hearings, public opinion has not moved very much on the impeachment of the President.

The House Judiciary Committee is ready to begin its phase of impeachment hearings after Thanksgiving.

POTUS believes, and is propagating, a conspiracy theory.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled against the Trump Administration’s latest effort to stonewall Congressional inquiries.

An ongoing attempt to summarize the complex.

He raises a very real problem.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks ready to jump ship in favor of a run for Senate,

As Republicans and their conservative cohorts spread a discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin smiles at yet another victory.

The final two witnesses in this week’s public hearings before the House Intelligence Committee reduced the Republican talking points in the President’s defense looking as absurd as they have always been.

A Senate Impeachment trial in early January would have a serious impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

As the walls close in, the President is growing more agitated.

Donald Trump’s Ambassador to the European Union provides yet more evidence to support impeachment of the President.

Republicans used to honor the men and women who serve our country. In the Trump Era, they attack them in defense of the President.

After a long day of hearings, the case against the President is becoming clearer and Republican defenses becoming more absurd.

Giuliani confirms.

Today begins another week of impeachment hearings by the House Intelligence Committee. By the time the smoke clears, the ground could have shifted significantly for the President.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

Public resources do not belong to the president to use for private gain.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch described how the President’s allies intimidated her out of her position, while the President intimidated her live on Twitter.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt President Trump another setback in his effort to keep his financial records out of Congressional hands.

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

Day two of Congressional impeachment hearings will be marked by the testimony of the former American Ambassador to Ukraine.

There were few fireworks during the first day of public impeachment hearings, but the ground work for a case against the President was laid.

In a few short hours, the House Intelligence Committee begins the public phase of its impeachment inquiry.

Caught in the middle of the Ukraine scandal, the President”s lawyer has gotten his own lawyers.

Get the popcorn and your favorite beverage ready.

A key diplomat and close supporter of the President has essentially confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo between Ukrainian aid and negative information about the President’s political opponents.

Revisiting a recent post.

And now we have evidence of a clear effort at a coverup by high-level White House employees. The question would be, what did the President know and when did he know it?

The proof of a quid pro quo is coming from inside the President’s own Administration.

Defying the Commander-in-Chief’s order will almost certainly ruin a good man’s career.

Today the House of Representatives approved the procedures for the impeachment proceeding against the President.

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

Yesterday’s testimony by Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman including information particularly damaging to the President and his defenses to the charges against him in the Ukraine matter.

John Kelly, President Trump’s former Chief of Staff, is speaking out nearly a year after leaving office