Outside the Beltway

The laying out of the case begins.

They’re taking their eye off the ball.

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

POLITICO has obtained what purports to be the 1st draft of the opinion.

His conversations with lawyers about stealing the election are not protected by privilege.

It would appear to be the case.

Apparently, New York and Oregon are not the same place.

A minor story that illustrates a far bigger problem in our politics.

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.

There will be no religious exemptions. For now, at least.

A long-overdue change appears to be happening.

The evidence is pretty clear: vaccinations are key, not weather (but that won’t stop people from trying to say otherwise).

The Democrats are apparently selling their omnibus spending package the wrong way.

It’s happening again. This time, it was easily preventable.

It hasn’t changed in over 100 years (but the population sure has).

Despite a rising groundswell of support, the obvious solution to our crisis has not been implemented.

Another GOP member is added to the investigation.

More in a series of ongoing observations about the GOP primaries.

Short-term politics and long-term harm.

Or, you know, not.

Here we go again.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

The Republican Party is not really a thing.

The #3 Republican in the House will vote to impeach.

The President of the United States is a national security threat. Can we get rid of him now?

A startling number than may understate the problem.

Too little, too late.

Gridlock doesn’t mean government stops. It just shifts who is governing.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Reminders from a perusal of the news.

It is about finding ways to combat minority rule.

Ok, so what should change?

It’s just not immediate.

The trend line shifted this week.

The writing is on the wall for simple-majority voting in the Senate.

What if instead of the unit rule, states doled out electoral voter based on the proportion of votes each slate of electors received?

SCOTUS and “faithless electors.”

The men who gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution were geniuses. But they couldn’t predict the future.

It’s not clear if Congresswoman Liz Cheney wants to run for the open Senate seat in Wyoming. If she did, though, she’d be the prohibitive favorite.

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that states cannot punish electors who fail to follow the will of the majority of voters n their state or state laws purporting to direct how they should vote.

President Trump’s hand-picked Federal Reserve Chairman is stating the blindingly obvious about the ongoing trade war, so of course the President labeled him an enemy.

Liz Cheney can pretty much write her own political ticket right now.

The move creates a rare Senate opening in the Equality State, and an opportunity for the daughter of a certain former Vice-President.

Per-student investment in public colleges has not recovered from the Great Recession.

Are people fleeing blue states to avoid repressive taxes? It depends who you’re asking.

The House GOP has moved to rebuke Iowa Congressman for his racist remarks. What took them so long?