Rahm goes national with Trump feud

Rahm Emanuel is elbowing back into the national spotlight, taking on President Trump over the contentious issue of immigration.
The combative Chicago mayor and long-time Democratic powerbroker sued the Justice Department this week over the administration’s efforts to rein in so-called sanctuary cities. Since then, he has made the rounds on the TV circuit, both to bolster his case and needle the president on one of his most prominent domestic priorities.

“Chicago will not be blackmailed into changing our values,” Emanuel said when announcing the suit. 

Confronting Trump may prove to be smart politics for Emanuel, whose approval rating tanked following the outcry over the fatal 2014 shooting of an unarmed teenager by Chicago police. The mayor has struggled to rebound since then, not least because of the city’s struggles to curb a sky-high murder rate and manage a budget crisis. 

But few cities in the country are more liberal than Chicago, which voted against Trump by a whopping 53-point margin in November, and some experts say Emanuel’s move to challenge the unpopular president could play to the advantage of the embattled mayor, who is up for reelection in 2019. 

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/346101-rahm-goes-national-with-trump-feud