An editorial. Chicago Public Square’s first editorial concludes it’s go time on impeachment for Donald Trump.
■ Harvard Law prof Cass Sunstein: “If the president has clearly committed an impeachable offense, the House of Representatives is not entitled to look the other way.”
■ Nearly two-thirds of the House Democratic caucus now back some kind of action on impeachment, and the list is growing fast.
■ The Washington Post: Speaker Pelosi has been sounding out allies and lawmakers on whether the time has come.
■ CNN’s Brian Stelter: “The impeachment terrain is shifting.”
■ David Leonhardt in The New York Times: Democrats “standing by and complaining, while refusing to use the constitutional power at their disposal, could leave American voters wondering whether Trump’s behavior is really so bad after all.”
■ Trump confirms he withheld military aid from Ukraine—a week before a phone call in which he allegedly pressured the country’s president to investigate Joe Biden’s son.
■ A Fox News analyst says the Ukraine charges are “far more serious than what Bob Mueller dug … up against him.”
■ The Tribune’s Rex Huppke says Trump’s pulling a reverse Nixon: “I am a crook!”
■ Politico’s Jack Shafer: “Trump has got to be hoping House Democrats toss him in the impeachment patch.”
■ Happy National Voter Registration Day.
Trump trolls Greta Thunberg. The president sent a sarcastic tweet at the 16-year-old environmental activist …
■ … and who then shot Trump what BuzzFeed News dubs “a death stare.”
■ Fox News is apologizing after a guest called Thunberg “mentally ill.”
■ Trump says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. (Cartoon: Keith J. Taylor, whose credit line was missing from yesterday’s Square.)
■ See Trump’s address to the U.N. General Assembly today—in which his overarching message was: Every nation for itself.
Illinois gun-law overhaul? The House has formed a gun violence task force charged with remaking all the ways the state regulates firearms.
■ A Michigan Avenue restaurant was hit by gunfire yesterday afternoon.
Remember when bars and restaurants wanted to keep letting customers smoke? The Illinois Restaurant Association is opposing a plan to legalize marijuana consumption in their establishments.
■ Politico’s Shia Kapos: As recreational pot becomes legal in Illinois, cities across the state are trying to stifle where it’s sold …
■ … and at least one suburb feels threatened by another.
■ A new path along Chicago’s riverfront spotlights the area’s historic assets.
‘Our people came to work, they aren’t criminals.’ A customer at a Chicago pizzeria raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is among those outraged by the detainment of five workers.
■ A Chicago congregation is on edge after a group led by a troglodytic California radio host descended on their church, declaring it the epicenter of “the undermining of America.”
■ A Chicago congressman accuses ICE of “declaring war on our neighborhoods.”
Carriage returns. A new exhibit at
■ Motown founder Berry Gordy is retiring at 89.
