Today’s notice: A deportation case tests political will. A House funding bill seemingly does not. The U.S. and Canada test each other. And D.C. just gets got.
Common Sense vs. Uncommon Acts
How far will Democrats bend in their pursuit of “common sense” policy shifts after Donald Trump’s victory? We may be finding a limit in the case of Mahmoud Khalil.
A court has temporarily stopped the Trump administration from deporting the Palestinian activist, but officials all the way up to Trump himself say deportation remains their intention. The politics are pretty clean for the White House: Khalil is an immigrant, was until recently a student at Columbia and regularly criticizes the Israeli government. All facts that make prosecuting him unlikely to cause internal MAGA rifts, and may potentially grant broad public support beyond the GOP base.