The House Committee investigating the IRS targeting scandal will consider impeaching the I.R.S. Commissioner over issues that are, at beast, only tangentially related to the scandal itself.
Paul Ryan has never really wanted to be Speaker Of The House, but he’s take the job if House Republicans meet the conditions he’s set out.
In the wake of failure that could have been easily foreseen, the Obama Administration is ending a program to train so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.
Paul Ryan is getting pressure from all sides to get into the race for Speaker Of The House.
Another political earthquake in Washington as Kevin McCarthy drops out of the race for Speaker, and the House GOP doesn’t seem to know which way to go.
With just a day to go before House Republicans pick their candidate for Speaker, conservatives don’t seem to be able to unify behind a candidate.
The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.
A new North Carolina law allows government employees to decline to perform their jobs by claiming it violates their “religious liberty.”
Rand Paul held the Senate floor for nearly twelve hours yesterday to talk about the PATRIOT Act, but it’s unclear if he accomplished anything.
A five-time heavyweight champion has beaten a rich politician in a bizarre charity event.
A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that the N.S.A.’s data mining program is illegal, but its ruling may not have a very big impact.
There must be something odd in the water in the Lone Star State, because a bizarre conspiracy theory seems to have taken root there.
The N.F.L.’s league office is giving up its tax exempt status, but that means far less than the headline implies.
Five years after it became law, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act appears to be over.
Some Republicans are trying to move their party in the right direction on marriage equality, but it’s unclear if they will succeed in the short term.
By refusing to stay the legalization of same-sex marriage in Alabama, the Supreme Court has sent the strongest signal yet that it is ready to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.
The House voted to repeal the PPACA for the 56th time, but it’s clear that this vote will end up being a pointless as all the others.
For some reason, Republicans want to change filibuster rules even though it’s unclear that they’ll still hold the Senate after 2016.
More interesting developments from the Supreme Court on what has been one of the biggest legal stories of 2014.
As expected, the Senate passed the so-called “Cromnibus,” but not before a self-aggrandizing maneuver by Ted Cruz ended up being exploited by Democrats to pass outstanding nominations.
The GOP Senate Caucus seems to be split on whether or not to reinstate the filibuster for Presidential and Judicial appointments.
The Supreme Court is set to decide if the state can deny a license plate with the Confederate flag design because it is “offensive.”
Texas has joined with 16 other states in a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the President’s executive action on immigration. At first glance, it doesn’t appear to have much legal merit.
It’s an old story. Republican leadership wants to avoid a government shutdown, but the hard core conservatives want a fight, this time over the President’s immigration action. We have a week to see how it unfolds.
The abrupt departure of Chuck Hagel says much more about Administration policy than it does about Chuck Hagel.
The process that seems likely to lead to a Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage has begun.
A popular idea that does nothing useful while simultaneously violating the Constitution.
Voter Turnout was lower this year than in any midterm since the one held eleven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
An unsurprising ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that only seems to bring closer the day when same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide.
The GOP added to its majority in the House, giving it the biggest majority it has had since Truman was President.
The Supreme Court’s expansion of same-sex marriage seems to be sitting well with the American public.
In the space of one week, we’ve gone from 19 states that recognize same-sex marriage to 29. Soon, it will be 35.
By failing to act, the Supreme Court has effectively legalized same-sex marriage in eleven more states.
While the battle for the Senate remains up in the air, the Republican majority in the House remains secure.
The security lapses at the Secret Service just continue to mount.
Politics, the law, culture, and a very old language collide.
Opponents of marriage equality clearly don’t like the idea of a “big tent” in the GOP on the issue.
Justice Ginsburg had some interesting things to say about the same-sex marriage cases headed to the Supreme Court.
Another Federal appellate Court has struck down state law bans on same-sex marriage, but the only thing that matters now is the Supreme Court.
A trial court judge in Tennessee is the first jurist since the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Windsor to uphold a ban on same-sex marriage
