Starting in early September, President Trump ordered an end to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program established by the Obama Administration. DACA, is a policy that protects undocumented immigrants under the age of 16. The children are eligible to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and could also be eligible for a work permit. Those ... Read More »
On Dec. 19, 538 presidential electors convened and officially elected Donald Trump into office. The Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution speaks on presidential elections. Elector eligibility is left to state legislators and, like several other government processes, there is a tight set of rules which dictate who is eligible to be an elector for a state. This year several of ... Read More »
President Barack Obama and the 112th Congress have begun work on preventing the United States from reaching the fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff is an automatic reduction in the United States budget deficit beginning in 2013 that was part of a compromise enacted to resolve the public debt ceiling crisis in 2011. The Congressional Budget Office has warned that without ... Read More »
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