On Politics A.M.: DACA Goes to the Supreme Court

2019年11月12日星期二

November 12, 2019

Good Tuesday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today.

When Attorney General Jeff Sessions appeared before news cameras at the Justice Department in early September 2017 to announce that President Trump was ending the DACA program, he knew the administration's legal argument was a thin one. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on the matter today, with the fate of 700,000 "Dreamers" at stake.
Mr. Trump fixated on Ukraine as a solution to his political problems. In five months, his obsession upended American foreign policy and threatened his presidency. Here is how it happened.

John Bolton, Mr. Trump's former national security adviser, and Mick Mulvaney, the president's current acting chief of staff, are on opposite sides in a developing legal battle over impeachment testimony.
The White House began asking administration officials detailed questions about military assistance to Ukraine after they met with Mr. Trump in June, nearly a month before the aid was abruptly blocked, a top Pentagon official told impeachment investigators.
On the eve of public impeachment hearings, even the handful of moderate Republicans in the House see no upside in breaking with the president.

Nine months ago, a racist picture in Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook almost ended his political career. Now, Virginia's Democratic governor will preside over a state where his party controls both houses of the legislature.

Andrew Yang's presidential campaign has raised a lot of money — far more than what it had started with. But that has left Mr. Yang and his senior campaign staff — some of whom, before this, had never run a campaign of any kind — with a new quandary: What do we do now?

Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, has told Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democratic officials that he is considering making a last-minute entry into the presidential race, the latest sign of how unsettled the presidential primary race is less than three months before the Iowa caucuses.

Representative Peter T. King, the longest-serving Republican in New York's congressional delegation, said on Monday that he would retire, joining a growing exodus of Republicans from Congress ahead of the 2020 elections.