Donald Trump’s federal government shutdown is now in its third week, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has indicated repeatedly that he will not allow the Senate to even consider the bills passed last week by the House to reopen the government. While Trump has made clear that he would own the decision to […]
The Trump administration plans to release a draft of proposals to further deregulate higher education on Monday. The Education Department reportedly intends to reduce the responsibilities of accreditors for colleges and universities — effectively gutting consumer protections for college students. The department is taking aim at protections for students receiving distance education, the credit hour standard, and […]
The United States is a bizarre nation. Our government is shut down today because our entire system of government is poorly designed. And it is poorly designed in a way that many of our peer nations had the good sense not to emulate. Our Constitution contains no safeguard — or, at least, no meaningful safeguard […]
An armed man from the confrontational right-wing group Patriot Movement Arizona barged into a Phoenix church on Saturday as part of the group’s passionate, garbled ongoing protests over asylum-seeking migrants. The church targeted Saturday by the right-wing group is reportedly helping government officials to resettle asylum-seekers pending final determinations of their immigration status. The people […]
Much of the government has been shut down for more than 16 days because President Donald Trump insists that Congress fund a border wall that is both a terrible idea and illegal. The shutdown is because Trump demands extending the existing border walls and barriers to vast areas that make no sense largely because they […]
Over two weeks into the partial federal government shutdown and with no end in sight, the fight over $5 billion for a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border wall has put the federal immigration system at standstill. While cases for immigrants in government custody are proceeding, immigration courts are not holding hearings for non-detained immigrants […]
The process by which the Senate confirms federal judges has greatly shifted under President Trump, and the results are greatly endangering the LGBTQ community. A new report from Lambda Legal shows that more than a third of nominees have a documented history of anti-LGBTQ bias, but many are getting rushed across the confirmation finish line […]
On Monday night, the Alabama Crimson Tide will face off against the Clemson Tigers in the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship Game. If that sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve been here before. Alabama and Clemson have faced off in two of the last three national championship games, with Alabama winning in 2016 and Clemson […]