Outside the Beltway

If you recall your grade school civics, you already knew this.

California has pushed back quickly against the Trump Administration’s decision to include a question regarding citizenship in the 2020 Census.

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

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

The President suffered a setback in his other job yesterday.

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

A new poll suggests that Republicans would get the blame if Congress fails to pass a bill to protect DACA beneficiaries.

The prospects for extending legal protections for DACA beneficiaries are getting grimmer by the day.

The prospect for a fix to help DACA beneficiaries is looking gloomier than ever.

A bipartisan group of Senators has proposed a largely reasonable fix to the DACA problem, but its fate remains unclear.

With time seemingly running out, the Senate debate over extending DACA is moving slowly.

If Trump is able to insist upon a package deal or no deal at all, he may muck up his chance of policy success, but it may be the Democrats who lose politically.

One of the main objections that many on the right seem to have to proposals to legalize DACA beneficiaries and other illegal immigrants is the idea that they could eventually become citizens. There’s no good reason they shouldn’t be able to do so.

A new poll indicates that most Americans support a DACA deal, but don’t think it should be linked to measures to avoid a government shutdown.

Congress seems no closer to a DACA deal than they were in January.

Will Joe Arpaio cause the GOP to lose an otherwise winnable Senate race?

The President talked about national unity last night, but given his own rhetoric as a candidate and as a President, it’s a call that seems to be hypocritical.

The White House’s immigration plan is facing opposition in both chambers of Congress from moderate and conservative Republicans alike.

The prospects for a deal in Congress on DACA are starting to look grim.

Democratic norms are eroding.

Less than a day after the President appeared to make a major concession regarding DACA, the White House has thrown a monkey wrench into the whole process.

Democrats in the Senate appear ready to de-link DACA from the budget. That would remove the threat of a government shutdown, but it could anger their base.

Getting to a DACA deal isn’t going to be easy.

A Federal Judge has put a hold on the impending end of the DACA program.

The Supreme Court held oral argument in a case that pits First Amendment rights against the rights of LGBT Americans.

The current temporary spending measure reached by Congress in September expires on Friday, and Republicans haven’t come up with a solution yet.

An overwhelming majority of Australians voted in favor of marriage equality in a non-binding referendum. The ball is now in the court of the nation’s legislature to move forward.

One of the few Republicans willing to speak out against Donald Trump is retiring at the end of his current term.

A Federal Judge has blocked enforcement of a Dept. of Justice policy purporting to block funding to so-called ‘sanctuary cities.’

Americans support allowing Dreamers to stay in the country, and most of them also support allowing them to eventually become citizens.

The University of California has joined the list of Plaintiffs suing the Trump Administration over its decision to end DACA.

Two polls find that most Americans support letting DACA beneficiaries to stay in the United States. Will that help move Congress to act?

The Trump Administration’s decision to end DACA motivated former President Obama to speak out, and he’s absolutely right.

Donald Trump has had harsher things to say about Rosie O’Donnell than he did about the people responsible for yesterday’s violence. That says something about him.

Symbols shape our views of the past.

After seven years that mostly consisted of losing elections, there’s a battle going on over which direction the party should head.

Puerto Rican voters voted overwhelmingly for statehood yesterday in a referendum whose legitimacy is being questioned due to boycotts by opposition parties.

President Trump has issued a revised ban on travel from six predominantly Muslim nations.

The announcement of a new Muslim travel ban Executive Order has been delayed once again.

The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.

Donald Trump resurrects an old debate and desecrates the Constitution in the process.

Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

Another poll shows that Latino voters are set to reject Donald Trump in record numbers, and now they’re turning against the GOP.

John McCain is bidding for a sixth term in office, with a challenge from the right in tomorrow’s primary and Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November.

Sorry Donald Trump, but most Americans believe that people here illegally deserve a path to citizenship and oppose building a border wall.