Good Tuesday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing sponsored by the Stop the Hit Coalition.

And I'm Anna Palmer. Doc is up at the Supreme Court today. The Houston Chronicle lays out the case as one of the most important of the justice's term because it will help define the scope of presidential powers over immigration. It is also seen as a test for Chief Justice John Roberts, who the

paper notes has lamented the politicization of the court and appear reluctant to take on the DACA case.

And a swamp watch for you. It's worth noting the case has produced some interesting bedfellows.

Veteran GOP lawyer Ted Ol Olson, is arguing this case.

And big business groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers

and others have signed on an amicus brief supporting DACA.

The APs reporting the U.S. has held a record number of migrant children in custody in 2019,

with new data showing that 69,550 migrant children were held in the U.S. over the last year.

It's the morning before the first public impeachment hearing. Tomorrow, 10 a.m. and 1100 long

worth the high ceiling historic Ways and Means Committee room. George Kent, the Deputy Secretary

State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and Bill Taylor, the acting ambassador to Ukraine,

are scheduled to testify. Our colleagues, Josh Gerstein, Darren Samuelson and Kyle Cheney

note that Mick Mulvaney has dropped his attempt to join a suit over impeachment testimony.

Politico was up with quite the story on how a federal health contract at CMS funneled

hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trump allies.

And Liz Crampton got an interesting quote from House Ag chairman, Colin Peterson of Minnesota,

after the NRCC speculated that Peterson selling his DC condo is a sign he will retire at the end of his

current term. Not so, says Peterson. He said he instead grew

tired of the growth explosion in the wharf in Southeast D.C. It was just too many people. He said,

quote, that's the main reason I got out of there. You can't drive, you can't park, you can't go to the

grocery store, there's lines. It's all these millennials. He now rents a furnished apartment in a quiet location, a few blocks from the Capitol. Meredith Kelly, who ran comms at the D-Triple-C last cycle, is joining Sina-K-K-Kosar strategies as a partner. Sina-Kosar is run by Dan Sina, the former ED at the D-T-T-T-C, with whom Kelly worked closely. Nahl Tusi and Gabbyor report that Trump is considering conditioning foreign aid on religious

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