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.
Republicans don’t really have many options if the President pulls the trigger on immigration reform via executive action.
President Obama’s threat to take action on immigration if Congress doesn’t act by the end of the year ignores political reality,
The GOP added to its majority in the House, giving it the biggest majority it has had since Truman was President.
It’s been three months, but there’s been no action on the lawsuit that the House of Representatives said it was filing against President Obama.
Despite conventional wisdom, there remains little incentive for the GOP to change its position on immigration reform.
Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.
While the battle for the Senate remains up in the air, the Republican majority in the House remains secure.
The Affordable Care Act is playing almost no role in the midterm elections.
Two prominent Republican groups point out the blindingly obvious.
For a party that says its not interested in impeachment, the GOP sure keeps bringing it up.
Republicans in the House seem determined to make life difficult for whomever wins the GOP nomination in 2016
Once again, the Tea Party has gotten the best of House GOP Leadership.
Your tax dollars, not at work.
The usual suspects are blocking any action at all on the border crisis.
Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.
Once again the GOP finds itself on the wrong side of public opinion.
That ball is in your court, Congress.
Led by Speaker John Boehner, Republican leaders are trying to placate calls for impeachment.
There are legitimate issues regarding Presidential overreach and separation of powers that President Obama’s actions while in office have raised. But none of that will be discussed in our hyperpartisan political culture.
Republican overreach could end up helping the President and his party.
House Republicans go to war against marijuana in the District of Columbia
A clash over Separation Of Power and the Imperial Presidency, coming soon to a Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.
The people with the biggest voices in the GOP seem to be leading it to positions that most Americans disagree with.
The House leadership elections turned out about as expected, but we may be doing this all over again in five months.
GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy of California won the vote to replace Eric Cantor as the new GOP House Majority Leader. The question is who replaces McCarthy.
All of a sudden, the IRS announced it doesn’t have communications records it once claimed it did have.
Rumors are circulating again that the House GOP may make an immigration reform pitch before the midterm elections.
If conservatives actually believed what they said they do, they would be much more open to immigrants, and immigration reform.
The junior Senator from Florida drops some hints.
Congressman Walter Jones beat back a primary challenge from a former Bush aide who attacked him over his foreign policy views.
The current Congress is on pace to pass fewer laws and bills than any since the end of World War II. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Despite the fact that she asserted her right against self-incrimination, a House Committee has voted to hold Lois Lerner in contempt for refusing to testify.
Once again, the Tea Party wing of the GOP is talking about taking out John Boehner.
Ted Cruz keeps putting his own party in difficult situations, mostly because he has only his own ambition at heart.
Don’t expect much out of Congress for the rest of 2014, or for the two years after that either.
John Boehner explains quite succinctly why nothing big is getting done in Congress.
Has Speaker Boehner breathed new life into immigration reform in the House? Maybe.
A budget deal has been reached, now it has to get through both Chambers of Congress.
Much like the guy who’s afraid to talk to girls in High School, Republicans don’t seem to know how to talk to women. But their problems are actually bigger than that.
