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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.

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FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2017 file photo, a device called a "bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. The Trump administration is proposing banning bump stocks, which allow guns to mimic fully automatic fire and were used in last year's Las Vegas massacre. The Justice Department's regulation, announced Saturday, March 10, 2018, would classify the device as a machine gun prohibited under federal law. The move was expected after President Donald Trump ordered officials to work toward a ban after 17 people were killed at a Florida high school. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

DOJ officially proposes ban on bump stocks

The Justice Department officially submitted a new rule to the White House Saturday to ban the possession or sale of bump stocks, which can make semiautomatic firearms fire at the rate of automatic weapons. Published March 10, 2018

Border arrest video inflames debate ahead of Trump visit

The illegal immigrant whose arrest by Border Patrol in southern California has gone viral online was a fairly high-level operator in an alien smuggling ring affiliated with a cartel, sources told The Washington Times. Published March 9, 2018

In this file photo, President Donald Trump, accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, right, speaks during a roundtable at the Customs and Border Protection National Targeting Center in Reston, Va., Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Senate to force vote on new border chief

Senate Republicans on Thursday moved to set up a vote as soon as next week on Kevin McAleenan, President Trump's pick to head the government's chief border agency. Published March 8, 2018

President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, March 8, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump praises Florida for bill arming school faculty

President Trump on Thursday praised Florida's legislature for the gun bill it approved this week, and took credit for provisions that would allow some school staff to carry concealed weapons to be used to deter shootings. Published March 8, 2018

Wearing "butterfly wings," supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program hold a tarp with an image of President Donald Trump as they march in support of DACA, Monday, March 5, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Amnesty debate hasn’t yet spurred wave of illegals

Last month's immigration debate didn't spark a massive immediate wave of illegal immigration across the southwest border, according to new Homeland Security statistics released Thursday. Published March 8, 2018

Sen. Jeff Flake, left, R-Ariz., speaks during a field hearing in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Jeff Flake DACA bill gives ‘Dreamers’ Obamacare, CBO says

Sen. Jeff Flake's bill to enshrine the DACA program in law would also make the illegal immigrant "Dreamers" eligible for Obamacare -- including perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to buy health plans, Congressional scorekeepers said this week. Published March 7, 2018

FILE - In this April 14, 2017, file photo, protesters hold up signs outside a courthouse where a federal judge was to hear arguments in the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order to withhold funding from communities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities in San Francisco. California state lawmakers passed and Gov. Jerry Brown signed nearly 900 new laws in 2017, most of which take effect Jan. 1, 2018. Among them is one making California a sanctuary state in response to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

Sessions compares California sanctuary laws to slave-state nullification

Attorney General Jeff Sessions compared California's new sanctuary city laws to attempts by slave-holding southern states to nullify federal laws, and blasted California officials Wednesday for attempting to force a "radical open borders agenda" on the rest of the country. Published March 7, 2018

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., left, speaks with Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, of Virginia during a break in a hearing with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Trey Gowdy, Bob Goodlatte call for special counsel in Carter Page case

The FBI's abuse of snooping laws during the 2016 presidential campaign was so egregious that it merits a special counsel to conduct a full accounting, two top House Republicans said in an official request Tuesday to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Published March 6, 2018

U.S. Capitol Police use bolt cutters to break chains locking together supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, as the protesters cheer in support of DACA, Monday, March 5, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The protesters were participating in an act of civil disobedience after a march in support of DACA. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump DACA phaseout legal, judge rules

A federal judge ruled Monday that President Trump's phaseout of the Obama-era DACA program is legal, adding heft to the administration's defense but doing little to solve the ongoing court quagmire. Published March 5, 2018

U,S. Capitol Police break chains locking together supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, who were participating in an act of civil disobedience in support of DACA recipients, Monday, March 5, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

‘Dreamers’ turn ire on Democrats as DACA deadline passes

Illegal immigrant Dreamers descended on Democrats' national headquarters in Washington on Monday, staging a sit-in and vowing to make sure the party gets at least some of the blame as Congress slipped past President Trump's March 5 deadline for action on DACA. Published March 5, 2018

Protesters blocked the streets near Capitol Hill and the Supreme Court to support of clean bill to protect DACA recipients. (Associated Press/File)

DACA deadline passes with action in courts, not Congress

Monday was supposed to be the deadline either when illegal immigrant Dreamers began to lose their status under the Trump administration's phaseout of the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty, or when Congress would swoop to the rescue and grant them a path to full citizenship rights. Published March 4, 2018

In this file photo, Court of Appeals of Maryland Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera (right) is shown questioning an attorney in a proceeding on March 1, 2018. (Associated Press photographs) **FILE**

Md. AG defends Hillary Clinton lawyers against bar complaint

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh's office offered a new explanation Friday for why the state has refused to pursue a bar complaint against Hillary Clinton's lawyers over their role in deleting her emails: They changed the rules. Published March 2, 2018