The Democrats’ Kavanaugh Gambit Will Swing the Midterms to the GOP

Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speak to reporters about the FBI's investigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 4, 2018. his is impetuous, but I think the electoral map has changed with the Kavanaugh decision.

As feds focused on detaining kids, border drug prosecutions plummeted

After the crackdown on families began, the number of people charged under federal drug trafficking laws fell to the lowest level since 2001. As feds focused on detaining kids, border drug prosecutions plummeted After the crackdown on families began, the number of people charged under federal drug trafficking laws fell to the lowest level since 2001.

Rapidly Expanding 287(g) Program Suffers from Lack of Transparency…

Among other things, the executive order-"Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States"-called for a rapid expansion of harmful 287 agreements, through which state and local law enforcement personnel are deputized to enforce federal immigration laws. Since then, the number of local jurisdictions that have signed 287 memoranda of agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has more than doubled.

Peter Lucas: Obama could have easily endorsed Charlie Baker

What if he meant to support Trump-bashing RINO Gov. Charlie Baker and got confused and ended up backing challenger Democrat Jay Gonzalez, the milder of the two men? Not that it matters very much. The Obama endorsement got lost in the frantic and overwhelming media coverage of the Judge Brett Kavanaugh drama as well as the Boston visit Monday of the aptly named U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake.

Jamelle Bouie Calls Trump’s Sensible TPS Policy “Ethnic Cleansing”

Journalists cheered a California court's Wednesday ruling to overturn the Department of Homeland Security's termination of temporary protected status for 300,000 resident aliens. This terrible decision was informed by the troubling argument that DHS's cancellation of TPS for migrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan was motivated by President Trump's racial "animus."

Today in History: October 5, 2018

Former President of the Republic of Poland and the Nobel Prize Laureate Lech Walesa delivers a speech during the fifth Informal High-Level NATO-Ukraine Consultations. A monster truck went out of control at an "Extreme Aeroshow" in Chihuahua, Mexico, killing eight people and injuring ten times as many.

Warner and Kaine say Kavanaugh’s nomination fight exposes raw anger in Senate

U.S. Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner answer questions during the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce 2nd annual U.S. Senatorial Forum Luncheon at the Founders Inn in Virginia Beach on Aug 17, 2015. U.S. Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner answer questions during the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce 2nd annual U.S. Senatorial Forum Luncheon at the Founders Inn in Virginia Beach on Aug 17, 2015.

This visa program for Canadian professionals was on Trump’s hit list. Not anymore.

The United States, Mexico and Canada agreed on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement just ahead of the midnight deadline imposed by the U.S. The agreement gives U.S. farmers greater access to the Canadian dairy market. Despite vows to slash the program, the Trump administration on Monday agreed to allow tens of thousands - if not hundreds of thousands - of Canadian engineers, doctors and nurses who come to work in the United States to keep their visas as part of the new U.S. trade pact with Canada and Mexico, according to senior administration officials.

Problems for Pentagona s immigrant recruit program

Stricter Trump administration immigration policies have stymied Pentagon plans to restart a program that allowed thousands of people with critical medical or Asian and African language skills to join the military and become American citizens, according to several U.S. officials. The decade-old program has been on hold since 2016 amid concerns that immigrant recruits were not being screened well enough, and security threats were slipping through the system.

Court: Korean-born girl must leave US because she was adopted by her Kansas uncle a year too late

A federal judge in Kansas has ruled that a South Korean-born teenager, who was adopted by her aunt and uncle in Kansas, will have to leave the country right after graduation from college because of a disparity between state and immigration laws regarding a child's age at the time of their adoption. Hyebin Schreiber was brought to the United States in 2012 at the age of 15 by now-retired Army Lt.

Upcoming Supreme Court term lacking blockbusters

The list of cases pending on the Supreme Court 's calendar this year lacks blockbusters - but court-watchers say they're hopeful some of the big ones get added in before the end of the term. The justices convene their 2018-2019 session Monday with far more drama over who will be the ninth member of the court than over the cases already on the schedule.

Abbott plays it cool in only debate against Democratic rival Valdez

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott presented himself as a successful steward of a thriving state at the only debate of the Texas gubernatorial campaign Friday night, eschewing any sharp attacks on long-shot Democratic rival Lupe Valdez. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott presented himself as a successful steward of a thriving state at the only debate of the Texas gubernatorial campaign Friday night, eschewing any sharp attacks on long-shot Democratic rival Lupe Valdez, who portrayed Abbott as unwilling to provide adequate funding for public education and too ready to appeal to racial fears with what she called the state's show-me-your-papers law.

Trump Dossier Research Chief Declines U.S. Congress Interview Request

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, is joined by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., right, as the Republican-led House pushes ahead on legislation to crack down on illegal immigration, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. The Republican chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Friday subpoenaed a U.S. research firm founder to give a deposition on his hiring of a former British spy to compile a dossier on alleged links between U.S. President Donald Trump's associates and Russia.

Deputies testify in Lafayette marshala s felony trial

Testimony began Thursday afternoon in Lafayette City Marshal Brian Pope's felony trial, with two of Pope's deputies testifying that they were on the clock when the joined the marshal in the press conference central to his indictment. Phil Conrad and Rodney LeBlanc, chief deputy marshal and deputy marshal, respectively, testified that they were first told that the press conference would be an endorsement for Scott Police Chief Chad Leger's campaign for sheriff.