Outside the Beltway

Progressive enthusiasm for the notion that our governing framework is dynamic and ought be constantly updated by the judiciary is waning.

Some activists on the left are calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished. While that may be a great sound bite, it doesn’t really accomplish anything.

Madison was right about politicians and ambition. He just didn’t see the how it would all play out.

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.

Overruling precedent dating back 51 years, the Court has ruled that states can require businesses that sell to residents within their state collect and remit appropriate sales taxes.

President Trump once said that “trade wars are good and easy to win.” It’s only been three months since he started this war and we’re already finding out just how wrong he is about that.

President Trump has reversed the family separation policy and replaced it with a family detention policy. This is likely to lead to Court challenges.

Pending the mere formality of approval by the Governor-General, Canada will soon become the largest nation in the world where recreational use of marijuana is legal.

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.

Seemingly out of nowhere yesterday, the Commander-in-Chief ordered the Pentagon to create a fifth service.

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

President Trump and his supporters are blaming the policy of separating parents and children at the border on Democrats. This is, simply put, a lie.

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

In a significant First Amendment ruling, the Supreme Court has held that a Minnesota law barring “political apparel” at polling places is unconstitutional.

The GOP and Donald Trump are indistinguishable now. But it’s not clear what that means.

The Trump Administration’s new legal position on coverage for people with pre-existing conditions could pose political problems in the fall.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s celebrity challenger doesn’t appear to be going anywhere.

Longstanding policy that the Justice Department defend an Act of Congress if there is “any reasonable argument” it is constitutional is being ignored.

Maine voters head to the polls today to pick nominees for Governor and several other offices, but the most interesting thing is way they’ll be voting.

The Trump Administration’s School Safety Commission isn’t getting off to a very good start.

Senators hoping for a long summer recess have had their hopes dashed.

The Federal Government will borrow more than $1 trillion this year for the first time in more than a half-decade.

A long-overdue overhaul of the way the United States vets those who access classified information is underway.

In the age of Trump, morality is optional for conservatives.

The overwhelming success of the abortion referendum in Ireland is leading to calls for similar action in Northern Ireland, but it won’t be easy.

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

Just as they did three years ago when they legalized same-sex marriage, Irish voters turned out in record numbers to repeal the nation’s ban on abortion.

The Internet is a global platform. Should every country’s laws apply to everyone using it?

President Trump continues his unhinged, and unsupported by facts, war on Amazon and its owner Jeff Bezos by pressuring an independent agency to raise shipping rates.

After the Ronny Jackson disaster, President Trump has made a new selection for Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

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

61 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of a man who left office a failed president.

The Postal Service is losing billions of dollars, but not for the reasons the President claims.

Republicans are trying to fight back against efforts to limit their ability to gerrymander Congressional and State Legislative Districts. It’s a fight they deserve to lose.

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.

Eleven states plus DC, who have 172 of the 270 electoral votes needed to elect a President, are now part of the compact.

While the Trump Administration slowly tries to remake the Federal Judiciary, states are moving to pass radical new challenges to Roe v. Wade.

Republicans joined with Democrats to advance a bill to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but it’s unlikely to go anywhere beyond that.

With the accusations mounting, the nomination of Ronny Jackson to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs is becoming more and more imperiled.

With just over six months to go before the 2018 elections, the storm clouds are starting to gather for the Republican Party.

The highest ranking Democrat in the Senate has introduced a bill that would effectively decriminalize marijuana nationwide and leave it up to each state to decide how far they wish to go with regard to cannabis regulation. It’s a huge step in the right direction.

Republicans on Capitol Hill and in positions of power are slavishly backing their President over their country. They should be ashamed.

Two months after the shooting in Parkland, Florida, support for gun control measures seems to be slipping.

Unable to get his way with the legislature, New York’s governor is taking a provocative step.

The Supreme Court heard argument yesterday on the issue of whether online sellers can be required to collect sales taxes, and the status of the issue remains as confused as ever.

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