Outside the Beltway

A modest regulatory change may have a big impact.

They’re not sending their best people.

When the solution is worse than the problem.

Immigration policy is harder than it looks.

We’re witnessing something not seen since 1989.

Biden nominees Janet Yellen, Tony Blinken, and Avril Haines are under scrutiny for their financial disclosures.

Cops aren’t soldiers or spies but fellow citizens.

Portland may be a preview of what’s to come.

Harvard joins a growing list of universities who will not offer in-person classes this year.

The federal judge who oversees treatment of detained immigrant children has had enough.

Apparently, the President thinks shooting people is amusing.

Once again, a fight is set to brew over funding for the President’s border wall. Will he force another shutdown in an election year?

The case of Roland Gramajo is an excellent example of what’s wrong with the Trump Administration’s immigration policy.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

President Trump threatened mass immigration raids. What was delivered was far less met the eye.

Another case where the cruelty is the point?

Trump opened his mouth and, once again, racist bilge came spewing out.

The Trump Administration is expected to begin mass deportation raids as early as this weekend.

Well, of course they are.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered a major defeat on a signature issue.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

The latest is about deportations

Following through on a threat made by the President earlier this week, immigration authorities are reportedly planning mass raids aimed primarily at immigrant families starting tomorrow.

Despite his claims, President Trump is actually deporting fewer people than were deported under former President Obama.

President Trump’s opening rally of the 2020 campaign sounded an awful lot like a rally from 2016

A Virginia Judge has ruled that automated license plate collection systems violate state law.

Stephen Miller and others wanted to punish Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats by dumping detained migrants in their districts.

Says “He’s pulling the rug out from the very people that are trying to help him accomplish his goal.”

Add DHS to the list of Departments being run by interims.

Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.

Nancy Pelosi is tired of Democrats voting to please their constituents.

If all goes well, the bill to avert another shutdown should become law today.

President Trump now appears to accept the compromise worked out by Congress to avoid another shutdown even though he’s not pleased with it.

Congressional negotiators have reportedly reached a budget deal, but it’s not clear if the President will agree to it.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar became the latest Democrat to enter the 2020 race on Sunday.

Negotiations to avert another shutdown appear to have stalled over the weekend with just four days left to go before funding runs out.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says she has no intention of running for President in 2020.

Fear-mongering of various types on full display.

Another “progressive” victory over a longtime Democratic incumbent, but this one is a bit different.

Passports being denied to citizens whose birth records are being questioned.

Florida voters in the Republican and Democratic parties have set up a Gubernatorial race that provides a stark choice on the table for Sunshine State voters in a race that will likely have national implications moving forward.

Republican Troy Balderson holds a narrow lead in a Special Election in Ohio. Even if he wins, though, the way this election played out does not bode well for the GOP in November.

A Federal Appeals Court has found that a Trump Administration policy purporting to punish so-called sanctuary cities is unconstitutional.

California’s Democratic Party endorsed “progressive” upstart Kevin de León over Senator Dianne Feinstein, but this is unlikely to stop Feinstein from winning election to a sixth term in office.

A new poll lends credence to the suggestion that Democrats should be careful about rallying behind the call to “Abolish ICE.”

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.

An idiot climbed the monument, wasting police resources and ruining the day for hundreds of visitors.

The calls to “Abolish ICE” are spreading to potential candidates for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.

Convicted leaker Chelsea Manning lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maryland, to the surprise of nobody.