While most people have looked at the leaked text of Donald Trump's next executive order attacking immigrants as an assault on the poor, they've overlooked its implications for a very different group of people: the disabled. Here's the relevant bit: (ii) to propose for notice and ...read more

It might be comforting to believe that Trump accidentally stumbled into a constitutional crisis his first week in office, but it's far more likely that this is a test. And if we as a country fail it, our system of checks and balances takes one enormous step closer to collapsing. ...read more

The other day on his podcast, Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks bragged that he's never been wrong when betting on the winner of presidential elections, then offered this: “If you’ve got Rand Paul running on a ‘Let’s stop messing around in the Middle East because we’re getting ...read more

Last week, we brought you the story of the latest unprecedented congressional Republican weapon against the White House: the frivolous lawsuit. Specifically, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is considering legal action to overturn the president's executive orders (EOs) in spite ...read more

For some time now, The Daily Banter has been covering a new phenomenon in American government and, specifically, the legislative branch. Instead of operating via its traditional, constitutionally enumerated mechanisms, the congressional Republicans have unleashed a new method of ...read more

As Bob Cesca pointed out in his column yesterday, Presidents of the United States have a long history of issuing executive orders, making Obama's decision to unilaterally  raise the minimum wage about as a controversial as the him using Air Force One. However, when ...read more