Officials in Boston are considering whether to allow noncitizens living in the U.S. legally to vote in municipal elections — such as for mayor, council members, and other local officials — in one of the latest attempts to grant voting rights to immigrants.
Why it matters: This comes as the immigration debate is getting more divisive across the country, and it will likely draw new anti-immigration sentiments to the polls. And while Boston's push to expand voting rights to non-U.S. citizens seems like a surprising one, 40 states had allowed noncitizens to vote in local and federal elections from 1776 until the 1920s, according to Ron Hayduk, a political scientist at San Francisco State University.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Sunday that President Trump — who said during a rally last week that he'd like to test Warren to prove her Native American heritage, but would "have to do it gently because we're in the #MeToo generation," — "is a bully," both to her and to "women all across this country.”
"Donald Trump is a bully, and he tries to bully me in order to shut me up. And he's also trying to bully women all across this country. When he talks about 'Me Too' it isn't just me Donald Trump's going after; it's every woman who speaks up. And he thinks we should sit down and shut up? It's just not going to happen."
— Warren, according to audio from a Warren campaign spokeswoman sent to CNN
The Trump administration is struggling to meet several court-ordered deadlines to reunite more than 2,000 migrant children with their parents.
What's happening: The administration was two days late in providing a complete list of the 102 children under the age of five being held by the Department of Health and Human Services. And today, a Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge that just 54 of those children are scheduled to be returned to their parents on Tuesday, per NBC News' Julia Ainsley, despite that being the original reunification deadline for all 102 children.
President Trump’s Monday morning tweets confirm that he’s going into this week’s NATO summit ready to berate our allies for spending too little on defense.
The real story: While European defense spending has fallen in recent decades, the U.S. has also drastically reduced its own military commitment to NATO since the Cold War. Europe was largely de-militarized in the 1990s, and every NATO member, including the U.S., took advantage of it.
Just hours before President Trump is set to announce his pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) offered a preview of the impact a conservative justice could have on the court, including rolling back abortion rights or the Affordable Care Act.
"It is near impossible that President Trump would select a nominee who isn’t hostile to our health care law and health care ... who isn't hostile to a woman's freedom to make her own health care decisions."
President Donald Trump’s former personal driver, Noel Cintron, has sued the Trump Organization for 3,300 hours of unpaid overtime and holiday and vacation hours, for a total of $200,000, according to multiplemedia reports.
The trend: Cintron is not the first person to sue the president or his businesses with allegations that he or his businesses have underpaid them or failed to compensate them at all. For example, a court ordered Trump’s golf resorts to pay up $32,000 in 2017 for using a company's paint to touch up property but not paying for it.
President Trump defended the U.S. move to not back a UN resolution promoting breastfeeding as the healthiest options for babies, tweeting Monday that the intention was to send the message that women should not be denied access to milk formula since they “need this option because of malnutrition and poverty.”
Why it matters: Trump said he thinks the U.S. “strongly supports breast feeding,” and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention promotes programs to encourage breastfeeding in the U.S. The NYT article on Sunday said the U.S. delegation was "embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers."
A request was filed Monday with the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate the accusations that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) ignored sexual abuse while assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University.
The big picture: Though Jordan denies the allegations, Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer and former White House chief ethics lawyer Norman Eisen, said they feel that Jordan's alleged negligence breaks the House of Representatives code of conduct. The rule states house members should conduct themselves “at all times in a manner which shall reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.”
President Trump slammed NATO — and singled out Germany — in a pair of Monday morning tweets two days before his trip to Brussels for the alliance's summit, saying NATO members "must do much more" and up their contributions.
"The United States is spending far more on NATO than any other Country. This is not fair, nor is it acceptable. While these countries have been increasing their contributions since I took office, they must do much more. Germany is at 1%, the U.S. is at 4%, and NATO benefits Europe far more than it does the U.S. By some accounts, the U.S. is paying for 90% of NATO, with many countries nowhere close to their 2% commitment. On top of this the European Union has a Trade Surplus of $151 Million with the U.S., with big Trade Barriers on U.S. goods. NO!"
Between the lines: Axios Jonathan Swan reported last night that senior European officials have said they are worried that Trump will spend the entire NATO summit beating up on America's closest allies, especially Germany, for not spending enough on their defense — and it looks like those fears were well-founded.
Trump often saves his harshest words for Germany and its leader Angela Merkel — and their feud could explode this week at the NATO summit.
What's happening: Trump has perfected what European officials describe as a 10-minute monologue on what he views as Germany's major sins: unfair trade with the U.S. (especially on cars), inadequate defense spending, and loose immigration policy leading to an invasion of radical Islamists.
