The Trump administration will get behind a criminal justice proposal for the first time when Jared Kushner meets with lawmakers to push for a bill to rehabilitate prisoners through educational programs, vocational training and therapy to reduce recidivism rates.
Be smart: Criminal justice reform has no deadline, most prisoners can't vote and efforts over the past couple of years have always been kicked down the road, despite general bipartisan support. Many criminal justice reform advocates on the Hill and in outside groups credit Kushner for his advocacy on the issue in the White House.
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday apologized to Caribbean leaders and diplomats over her government’s treatment of some immigrants who migrated to Britain as children after World War Two.
The back story: The immigrants, also referred to as the "Windrush generation," are legal residents, but some don't have documentation required under an immigration policy May's government implemented in 2012. That puts them at risk of deportation, eviction and losing health care coverage. May said she's addressing the issue.
President Trump will not meet today's deadline to file his 2017 tax returns, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed Tuesday, and has filed for an extension with the IRS.
Why it matters: Trump’s tax returns have come under intense scrutiny after he broke decades of precedent by refusing to release them during his presidential campaign. And though Sanders said Trump will file his 2017 returns by the extension deadline of October 15, 2018, this is another example of him disrupting presidential norms.
The Koch Network's advocacy groups, The LIBRE Initiative and Freedom Partners, are launching a seven-figure national television and digital ad campaign this Sunday calling on President Trump and Congress to take action on finding a permanent solution for DACA recipients.
Why it matters: The Koch Network, which has been vocal about its frustration with lawmakers' failure to find a DACA fix, is hugely influential with Republicans and certain factions within the White House. Their latest ad campaign could be the driving force toward clinching an immigration deal.
FiveThirtyEight, the popular politics and news blog launched by statistics guru Nate Silver in 2010, is moving from Disney-owned ESPN to Disney-owned ABC News, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Why it matters: Transitioning the property to its sister network that's more news and politics focused, is a better fit for website than ESPN. President of ABC News James Goldston tells the Wall Street Journal that FiveThirtyEight is part of ABC News’ plans to enhance its political reporting ahead of the midterm elections.
Although the FBI raided the office, home, and hotel of Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, he may not be the most vulnerable person in Trump’s network of lawyers that the special counsel's investigation is threatening to expose, Bloomberg’s Timothy O’Brien writes.
The reality: Jason Greenblatt, a lawyer specializing in real-estate law and joined the Trump Organization in 1997, has been Trump's true in-house counsel, reports O'Brien, signing off on “almost every significant deal.” And Allen Weisselberg, the organization’s chief financial officer, has also played a similar role with the company’s finances.
House Speaker Paul Ryan told CNBC’s Joe Kernen Tuesday that it’s “fake news” that he’s leaving Congress because he doesn’t want to deal with President Trump anymore.
Yes, but: Ryan allies told Axios earlier this month that once Ryan passed tax reform, his longtime dream, he was ready to step out of the frustrating role of Speaker, in part due to Trump.
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a portion of federal law that requires the deportation of legal immigrants who have committed a “crime of violence“ is unconstitutionally vague.
Why it matters: For the first time, Justice Neil Gorsuch sided with the more liberal judges. Per CNN, he was "continuing the jurisprudence of Justice Antonin Scalia, who also sided with liberals when it came to the vagueness of statutes used to convict criminal defendants."
Ahead of next Tuesday's White House state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron, Vanity Fair's The Hive posts an interview by Tom Sancton, with photos by Annie Leibovitz, from the May issue.
The odd couple: "Macron, at 40, is a sophisticated and highly educated aesthete who quotes Hegel in his speeches; Trump, 71, is more at home with reality TV. One sleeps four hours a night and, more or less, works the other 20. The other watches four hours of television a day. One married a teacher 24 years his senior. The other married a model 24 years his junior."
As James Comey's "A Higher Loyalty" goes on sale today, NPR's Steve Inskeep and Carrie Johnson asked him on "Morning Edition" about President Trump's tweets over the weekend suggesting he could face jail for giving up classified information and lying to Congress.
His big picture: “The president of the United States just tweeted that a private citizen should be jailed. And I think the reaction of most of us was: ‘Meh, it’s another one of those things. ... This is not normal. This is not OK. There is a danger that we will become numb to it and we will stop noticing the threats to our norms.”
Michael Cohen has spent his career making Donald Trump’s problems disappear. Now he’s the problem Trump can’t possibly make vanish.
The big picture: Cohen, unlike Ivanka or the other kids, is the only person on earth intertwined in Trump’s professional, political, personal, legal and family life — the man with secrets few others hold. And, thanks to a court ruling yesterday, many of those secrets, reportedly recorded and emailed, are — or soon will be —in the hands of federal investigators.
The Mar-a-Lago summit beginning today between President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe brings together two leaders mired in scandal — and itching for political wins.
The bottom line: By all appearances, this is a summit on foreign policy and the North Korean nuclear threat, but everything these two leaders put on the table is going to be framed by their respective domestic woes.
Rev. Patrick J. Conroy, a Jesuit priest and the 60th Chaplain of the House of Representatives, is stepping down after 7 years in the position, House Speaker Paul Ryan's office announced Monday night. Ryan will consult with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to choose Conroy's successor.
“As chaplain, Father Conroy has been a great source of strength and support to our community. He is deeply admired by members and staff. Father Conroy’s ministry here has made a difference, and we are all very grateful to him.”
