Welcome back to The Best & The Brightest. I’m Abby Livingston, returning with your Sunday preview of everything you need to know about the week ahead in Washington: the Dems’ generational warfare, Gabbard’s Assad problem, Durbin retirement game theory, and much more…

By the way, if you missed yesterday’s special Saturday episode of The Powers That Be, I got on the line with Puck’s executive editor, Ben Landy, to discuss the mounting resistance to Pete Hegseth’s nomination, the latest Democratic infighting, and which G.O.P. senators might throw a wrench in Trump’s transition. Click here to listen.

Let’s jump in…

The 61-year-old Maryland Democrat led a bloodless coup this week, snatching the ranking membership of the Judiciary committee from the much older Jerry Nadler and setting fire to to the party’s rule book for seniority in the process. (Yes, 61 is still considered spry in Capitol Hill years…)

Now, with Raskin moving over to Judiciary, his top spot on the powerful House Oversight committee is open, setting up another generational fight between...