John L. Micek is a syndicated columnist
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Micek: The illegal immigrant story Trump isn’t telling you
If you passed Max Acuna on the street or on your way to work, or any one of those hundreds of places where people cross paths every day, you wouldn’t give the smartly dressed 30-year-old a second look.
Micek: What would Jefferson think of the government shutdown?
WASHINGTON — It was a perfect post-Christmas day, as I watched tourists move in concentric circles around the Jefferson Memorial at the far edge of the National Mall.
Micek: Pelosi gives Trump important civics lesson
In one withering remark on Tuesday, once (and now increasingly likely future) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave Donald Trump the most important civics lesson of his presidency.
Micek: Will Trump listen to Lindsey Graham?
What got into Lindsey Graham?
Micek: Bush-appointed judge credits Roberts for standing up to Trump
John E. Jones III doesn’t look or sound much like a rebel. Like a lot of federal judges, he’s given to sober suits, long pauses, and thoughtful and deliberative sentences.
Micek: You didn’t lose the Amazon lottery. You dodged a bullet
So what do Crystal City, Virginia, and Long Island City, New York, have that your city or state doesn’t? Well, everything, as it turns out.
Micek: Control of the House runs through Pennsylvania
It’s a Wednesday night in October, three weeks before Election Day, and Mike Kelly is onstage at the Erie Insurance Coliseum, home of the Ontario Hockey League’s Erie Otters, where he finds himself playing a familiar role.
Micek: Trump goes full Trump in yet another Pennsylvania rally
ERIE, Pa. — With his second U.S. Supreme Court confirmation in the bag, President Donald Trump took a victory lap around this city by the lake on Wednesday night, skewering “radical” Capitol Hill Democrats and the “dishonest” media, even as he exhorted supporters to vote in next month’s midterm election.
Micek: Kavanaugh wasn’t on trial. He was interviewing to work for us
Remember that time you got due process in a job interview? Me neither.
Micek: Trump Jr. rallies the MAGA faithful in Pennsylvania
Donald Trump Jr. had a pretty simple message for the Republican faithful who filled a hotel ballroom here on the final night of summer 2018.
