At least in these early days, Democrats appear to lack a coherent message, or a coherent strategy, to propel any effort to block Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
There are good arguments as to why progressive Senators should vote against his confirmation. Let’s stick to those.
Democrats are rallying around the “Abolish ICE” slogan in response to the Trump Administration’s immigration policies, but it could end up backfiring on them.
Democrats are making largely meaningless appeals to the so-called ‘Merrick Garland Precedent” to argue for a delay in confirming the President’s next Supreme Court nominee. The American people feel differently.
There is a frustration and a growing sense that the American political system is illegitimate.
Retiring Arizona Senator Jeff Flake says that he will not seek to block President Trump’s nominee to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.
The unconscionable violation of norms in 2016 won’t apply in 2018; it’s a matter of power, not principle.
After thirty years on the bench, during which he played a central role in some of the Supreme Court’s most significant rulings, Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring.
House Republicans are supposed to vote on one or more immigration bills this week, but can’t even agree what their policy should be.
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.
While the Trump Administration slowly tries to remake the Federal Judiciary, states are moving to pass radical new challenges to Roe v. Wade.
Despite facing headwinds in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mike Pompeo will probably be confirmed as the next Secretary of State. That’s unfortunate.
A Federal Judge in Texas has ruled that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is barred by Federal Law. Legally speaking, this is a tenuous argument at best.
Like many Presidents before him, Donald Trump wants a line-item veto. Getting there won’t be easy, nor should it be.
Organizing protests was the easy part. The hard part for those who would seek to expand gun regulations is yet to come.
President Trump appeared to change positions on several gun control ideas, but he probably doesn’t mean it.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rules that existing civil rights laws bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Presidents are much more constrained in issuing and rolling back regulations than they or the public think.
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.
Congress seems likely to pass a budget deal today that will massively increase spending, putting to rest once and for all the rank hypocrisy of Republicans when it comes to claims that they are “fiscally conservative.”
The current budget deal expires in six days and Congress doesn’t seem to know what it’s going to do about it.
This is not unreasonable.
While final votes remain to be taken, the Federal Government shutdown effectively ended this afternoon with an overwhelming bipartisan vote to reopen the government, combined with a commitment from Republicans to consider a DACA bill over the next three weeks. What happens next, though, is entirely uncertain.
President Trump called on Senate Republicans to eliminate the legislative filibuster to resolve the government shutdown. That’s not going to happen.
The government is shut down and Washington is playing the usual blame game. In reality, there’s plenty of blame to go around, and one of the guilty parties is the American people.
2017 was quite a year. 2018 promises to be just as interesting.
Republicans passed their tax bill yesterday. What that means for the economy and the 2018 midterms is another question.
Meet Matthew Peterson, a nominee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia who apparently doesn’t know much about trials.
House and Senate Republicans say they have reached agreement on a final tax bill, and Democrats are engaging in an effort to delay a vote in the Senate until Doug Jones can be seated.
Donald Trump has been President 300 days and the record reveals no real accomplishments and increased dissatisfaction with the job he’s doing.
As a candidate, Donald Trump liked to claim that he only hired the “top people.” and said he would do the same thing as President. So far, it isn’t working out that way.
At least for now, Republicans seem to be giving up on repealing and replacing the PPACA. That’s not going to make the base happy.
Former Trump aide Steve Bannon is declaring war on Republicans in the Senate.
Reports are indicating that President Trump will decertify the nuclear weapons deal with Iran. This would be a foolish and potentially dangerous mistake.
What was essentially the final effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is officially dead.
Yet another lawsuit against yet another controversial Trump Administration policy.
The Senate appears ready to get rid of another procedural move designed to block judicial nominees.
Republicans will introduce a tax package by the end of the month, but whether they can actually pass anything is another question entirely.
Americans support allowing Dreamers to stay in the country, and most of them also support allowing them to eventually become citizens.
The effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is dead for now.
Trump’s legislative accomplishments have been anemic at best.
Donald Trump is threatening to shut the government down if Congress doesn’t pay for the wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.
They may both be Republicans, but the relationship between the President and the Senate Majority Leader is bad and seems to be getting worse.
After 200 days, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.
A Federal Judge has ruled against an elected official who blocked a constituent from accessing her Facebook page.
