WASHINGTON—A group of Democratic senators urged Republicans to come to the negotiating table to work out a broad immigration and border security plan, pushing an unlikely alternative path as the GOP-controlled Congress prepared to pass a bill designed to speed up deportations and President Trump moved ahead with his own crackdown.

The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday to get to the bottom of one question: How many Minnesota House members need to be physically present at the Capitol to legally conduct business?

Senate Republicans failed on Wednesday to invoke cloture on a bill legislating care for infants “born alive” during attempted abortions, with the motion largely serving to get Democrats on the record as voting against a bill being framed as anti-infanticide.

This week marks the first time Republicans will hold a federal trifecta since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which overturned the federal right to an abortion.