Outside the Beltway

Kevin Drum makes an important point.

Donald Trump spent part of Labor Day engaged in yet another unhinged attack on his own Justice Department.

A Federal Judge in Texas has declined to grant a request to bring the DACA program to an end, but its days appear to be numbered unless Congress acts.

Passports being denied to citizens whose birth records are being questioned.

Once again, the President has thrown the Rule of Law under the bus.

One year after Charlottesville, it’s clear that President Trump still doesn’t understand what happened there, or that he just doesn’t care.

The legal fight over DACA could end up posing problems for Republicans in November.

Another Federal Judge has dealt a legal blow to President Trump’s effort to shut down the DACA program.

A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.

President Trump is suggesting he may force a government shutdown over his immigration policies just a month before the midterm elections.

More evidence that the politics of the moment aren’t just about illegal immigration.

Recent polling finds that Americans aren’t feeling quite so patriotic right now. It’s understandable, but we shouldn’t give up hope.

The House of Representatives has left town after once again failing to pass an immigration reform bill,, thus likely ensuring that nothing will be passed before the midterms.

Donald Trump continues to demonstrate that he has nothing but utter contempt for the Rule of Law. At some point, he will either be called to account for this or our nation’s institutions will suffer as a result.

The odds of an immigration bill passing the House were already low. This morning, President Trump pretty much guaranteed failure.

Notwithstanding the rhetoric of the President and his supporters, most Americans believe that immigration is a good thing for the United States.

House Republicans are supposed to vote on one or more immigration bills this week, but can’t even agree what their policy should be.

Donald Trump wants Republicans to make his immigration policies the centerpiece of the midterm campaign. What could possibly go wrong?

New polling shows that the Trump Administration’s family separation policy is widely unpopular, with only Republicans supporting it. That last fact, though, is why Trump is unlikely to change the policy.

Children are not political bargaining chips, but that’s exactly what this President plans to turn them into.

The Trump administration’s approach to immigrant children is a serious test of our national morality.

House Republicans put forward a plan to protect DACA beneficiaries, but President Trump appears to have doomed it already.

The Federal Government is signing on to an effort by Texas and several other states to have the DACA program declared unlawful.

Another Federal Judge has held that the Trump Administration’s efforts to punish so-called ‘sanctuary cities’ violates both Federal law and the Constitution.

A small group of Senators is engaged in a seemingly quixotic effort to save DACA before the election.

The effort by a group of Republican rebels to force a vote on a DACA bill is moving closer to success, but that may end up being the easy part.

Don’t look for a Trump agenda for the rest of the year. It doesn’t exist.

A small group of Republican rebels in the House are attempting to push legislation protecting DACA beneficiaries to a floor vote. Unfortunately, they’re not likely to succeed.

President Trump has told an astonishingly large number of lies since taking office.

A new lawsuit seeks to have the 2012 DACA program declared unconstitutional.

More signs of tension between President Trump and his Chief of Staff.

The Trump Administration has suffered another setback in its efforts to repeal DACA.

Hillary Clinton isn’t running for anything in 2018, but that isn’t stopping Republicans from running against her.

An attempt at defining the conversation.

New York and nearly two dozen other jurisdictions have filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the Trump Administration from asking about citizenship in the 2020 Census.

More than 1200 refugees, mostly from Honduras, are trying to come to the United States. What should we do about it?

In a bizarre Twitter rant, President Trump declared a DACA deal “dead,” blaming Democrats when it’s clear that it’s largely his fault.

A Federal Judge In New York City is allowing a lawsuit against the President’s DACA order to go forward, and he based part of his ruling on the President’s own rhetoric.

Mitt Romney staked out a position on DACA that is to the right of the President, and to the right of a majority of Utah voters.

Critics warn this move would lead to a drastic undercount of Hispanic voters, impacting Congressional districting, federal programs, and more.

Congress passed a funding bill to avert a shutdown with time to spare early this morning, but now the President is threatening a veto.

This is no way to run a railroad.

Congress is no closer to a resolution of the DACA fix than it was earlier this year.

Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration is backing away from gun regulations opposed by the N.R.A.

The Federal Government has fired another shot in the ongoing war over so-called “sanctuary cities.”

Once again, the Administration is walking back the President’s statements on a controversial issue.

A group of twenty states have revived an old argument to mount a new legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

President Trump appeared to change positions on several gun control ideas, but he probably doesn’t mean it.

Despite the activism we’ve seen in the wake of the school shooting in Florida, it’s unlikely that we’ll see significant Congressional action on guns.

The Supreme Court has declined an invitation to intervene early in the legal arguments surrounding DACA.