By Natalia Castro The Senate is one vote away from voting away the Fourth Amendment. In a 58 to 38 vote , a Senate amendment to the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 failed which would have allowed the FBI to conduct warrantless surveillance searches on individual’s Internet […]

By Robert Romano In a 4 to 4 tie , the Supreme Court has upheld lower court rulings that enjoin the Obama administration from moving forward with executive amnesty for 4.5 million illegal immigrants with U.S.-born children. The ruling upheld a preliminary injunction put in place by the U.S. District Court of Southern […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/lawmaker-news/284646-nows-the-time-for-ryan-to-act-like-a-speaker In the waiting area to see Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) or his staff, there is a banner that draws from University of Notre Dame football, saying, “Speaker like a Champion.” The House Democrats’ sit-in tests whether the Wisconsin Republican will live up […]

  By Rick Manning The headline screams: “Police: 13 dead, 43 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings,” yet no one nationally hears them. The Chicago media reads like a Walter Cronkite report from Vietnam, laden with body and casualty counts for a war that no one understands. That is the state of violence in the second city, […]

By Natalia Castro This is not 2012 or even 2008. Donald Trump has dramatically changed not just the Republican Party, but the entire political process. By gathering support from Rust Belt states fed up with bad trade deals and outsourced jobs, Trump may be edging […]

By Robert Romano As the June 23 referendum in the UK on whether to remain a part of the European Union draws to a close — with the European political establishment nervous as polls show the race well within the margin of error with remain at 45 percent and leave at 44 percent — one outcome is already clear. Whatever consensus that once existed for continued economic […]

By Natalia Castro “By July 1 of this year, if all goes well, we will know one way or the other whether [the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals(DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA)] can go forward.” That was The Atlantic writer Garret Epps in Jan. 2016 , hopeful […]

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By Don Todd Having lived inside the Washington Beltway for over 30 years I have often criticized my conservative friends for supporting the leftwing Washington Post by subscribing to it. The most common response has been, “I just read it to know what the enemy is thinking.” […]

By Natalia Castro and Robert Romano Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-Conn.). was outraged about the lack of gun legislation following the Orlando terror attack, so he decided to talk about it, for 15 hours. While most filibusters work to dissuade a vote, Murphy did it for just the […]