Outside the Beltway

A morally right but politically fraught move.

The hidden wokeness of our new Critical Theory-loving President.

Every illegal immigrant would have a path to citizenship.

The party is unlikely to suffer consequences for its anti-democracy actions.

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

Is the Chief Justice laying a trap or simply ‘calling balls and strikes’?

Donald Trump would be a more effective and dangerous President if he and his team were more competent.

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

The Supreme Court took up the DACA issue today. No matter what it decides, this will likely become a big issue in the 2020 elections.

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case likely to decide the fate of former President Obama’s DACA program.

The Supreme Court returns to work today with a significant number of high-profile cases on its docket.

Obvious advice is obvious.

David Koch, one-half of the Koch Brothers and the head of a wide-ranging business empire who also went on to have a huge impact on politics and cultural philanthropy, has died at the age of 79.

The first night of the second Democratic debate consisted largely of clashes between the party’s progressive wing and more moderate elements.

Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.

Is it possible, or even appropriate, to express pride in a country that is being led by a President who stands against everything this country stands for?

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in a series of cases challenging the President’s decision to end the DACA program.

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

A Federal Judge has put at least a partial hold on President’s Trump’s effort to use a “national emergency” to fund his border wall.

As Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush remind us, there was a time when Republicans weren’t xenophobic nationalists when it comes to immigration policy.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has dealt another legal setback to the Trump Administration’s efforts to end the DACA program,

The President unveiled some incoherent ideas yesterday that have no chance of becoming law.

A longstanding legal question may finally come to a head.

Republicans have aborted President Trump’s lofty plan for a $2 trillion infrastructure deal just days after it was conceived.

President Trump and the top Democrats in Congress announced a purported $2 trillion infrastructure deal but there’s no reason to believe it will ever become law.

Taking Joe Biden’s bait, President Trump once again defended his response to the racist rally in Charlottesville two years ago..

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

A second Federal Judge has found that the Commerce Department violated the law when it moved to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census form.

A new poll shows most Americans oppose President Trump’s border wall and support more liberal immigration laws.

The Senate rejected Republican and Democratic proposals as expected but there are some signs of movement forward.

There’s a way that Congress and the President could make future government shutdowns impossible, but they probably won’t do it.

Not surprisingly, the President’s proposed shutdown deal is not being received well by Democrats on Capitol Hill.

The initial reaction to President Trump’s proposal to reopen the government is not going over well on either side of the aisle.

President Trump put an offer on the table to end the shutdown, the question is whether it will actually lead anywhere.

Is Trump about to make an offer (plus the SOTU letter may have helped).

With Democrats making a new proposal and the President set to speak later today, there could be movement on ending the government shutdown. I wouldn’t be too optimistic, though.

Despite their rhetoric, Republicans in Congress have shown through their own inaction that they don’t really support the President’s border wall.

If you’re looking for the biggest obstacle to a resolution to the government shutdown, look no further than President Donald J. Trump.

Doctors have declared Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cancer free but she is still expected to miss one more week of oral argument as she recovers from her surgery in December.

President Trump appears to be backing away from the idea of declaring a national emergency to get his wall built. But the other options he’s considering aren’t much better.

The government shutdown has now entered historic territory, and the Trump Administration is moving closer to a “national emergency” or other extra-legal means to get money for his wall.

As the shutdown continues, there’s little sign of progress on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

The Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by the Trump Administration to have an injunction against its new asylum policy lifted.

Once again, President Trump is threatening a shutdown over the border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

This month’s budget fight is likely the last chance the President will have to get any funding for his border wall.

A Federal Judge has ruled that the Trump Administration’s efforts to limit the ability of migrants to claim asylum violates Federal law.

Late last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals became the fifth Federal Court to rule against the Trump Administration’s efforts to repeal DACA.

Six siblings of Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar are starring in political ads against him. This is just another unfortunate example of the extent to which our political culture has been ruined by hyperpartisan polarization.

Trumpism is a direct by-product of the poisonous populism of the Tea Party movement, and they’ve both taken over the Republican Party.

Kevin Drum makes an important point.