Outside the Beltway

As expected, a group of Democratic states is suing the Trump Administration over the decision to end the DACA program.

Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats on spending and the debt ceiling, but it was an exceedingly bad one.

Several Democratic Attorneys General are threatening to sue the Trump Administration over the decision to end DACA, but their legal arguments appear to be especially weak.

But, the problem is, they seem unlikely to act.

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.

The Trump Administration announced today that the program that provided deportation relief to nearly a million people brought to the United States as children would end unless Congress acts to save it.

President Trump is threatening to end a program that has benefited at least 750,000 innocent people.

Trump isn’t going to win any regional popularity awards in LA.

The president’s decisions to pardon Joe Arpaio sends a clear signal in the wake of Charlottesville.

Inconceivably, Steve Bannon thought that clashing with President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law was a good idea. He’s likely learned his lesson now.

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

Thanks to a 4-4 tie, President Obama’s temporary immigration relief program remains blocked by a Federal Court Injunction.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in what is guaranteed to be a high profile case heading into the 2016 elections.

Paul Ryan’s admission that immigration reform will not happen as long as Barack Obama is President simply reflects the reality of immigration politics in Congress.

Another poll shows that most Americans, and even most Republicans, support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

The highest court in New York state has ruled that an undocumented immigrant brought to the U.S. as a child can be admitted to practice law.

In a move that is clearly designed to have an impact in the General Election, Hillary Clinton came out in support of broad immigration reform in Nevada yesterday.

Now that they control all of Congress, some Republicans are suddenly deciding that the filibuster should be repealed.

Just as his political star is rising among conservatives, Scott Walker is walking back his previous support for immigration reform.

A Federal Judge has issued a temporary halt to the Obama Administration’s deferred deportation program, but appeals can be expected.

Get ready for another pointless House lawsuit against the President.

The terror attack in Paris seems likely to undercut GOP efforts to use the DHS budget to attack the President’s immigration policies.

Texas has joined with 16 other states in a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the President’s executive action on immigration. At first glance, it doesn’t appear to have much legal merit.

On a preliminary examination, the President’s executive action on immigration appears to be within the boundaries of applicable law. However, as with other exercises of Executive Branch authority, it raises some important concerns about the precedent that it sets.

The Office of Legal Counsel told the president Wednesday he couldn’t do what he did on Thursday.

On substance, the President’s immigration actions aren’t very objectionable. How he is implementing them, though, is problematic and seems needlessly confrontational.

In the end, there appears to be very little, if anything, the GOP can do to stop or roll back the executive actions the President will announce Thursday evening.

A new poll provides some interesting context to the political context to the President’s expected executive action on immigration.

If the President now believes he can act unilaterally on immigration reform, why did he spend the last five years saying that he couldn’t?

The White House is now leaking out details of what seems like an inevitable decision by the President. How it plays out politically, though, is the big question.

President Obama’s threat to take action on immigration if Congress doesn’t act by the end of the year ignores political reality,

Despite the conciliatory language after Tuesday, it’s unlikely that much will change in Washington in the next two years.

At this rate, it’s unlikely the House will file any kind of lawsuit against President Obama until 2015, assuming it ever files anything.

Will the President back track on his promise of further action on immigration if the GOP wins the Senate?

For purely political reasons, the Administration is delaying the announcement of new executive action on immigration.

Cowardice, or politically prudent?

Tea Party backed candidates may have lost most of the GOP primary battles, but they’ve won the war for control of the Republican agenda.

Republicans in the House seem determined to make life difficult for whomever wins the GOP nomination in 2016

Once again, Republicans demonstrate why they have problems with Latino voters.

The usual suspects are blocking any action at all on the border crisis.

According to some reports, President Obama may be about to make an end run around Congressional inaction on immigration reform.

The Texas Senator is threatening to block any bill dealing with the border crisis that doesn’t defund the relief President Obama granted to children of illegal immigrants last year.

A good idea, but do the ends justify the means?