Outside the Beltway

Deportation uber alles.

And why I think future presidents will use the powers that Trump has demonstrated exist.

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.