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The U.S. Supreme Court’s growing “arrogance” toward lower courts is now slowing some of President Donald Trump’s key initiatives, according to legal analysts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern. After an appeals court refused to lift an injunction blocking Trump’s plan to deploy the National Guard in Chicago, the Slate writers said judges across the political spectrum — including Trump appointees — are uniting to push back against a high court that has dismissed their fact-finding and legal reasoning. “They’re not just fact-checking,” Stern said. “They’re reality-checking.”

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MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian erupted Wednesday over Attorney General Pam Bondi’s refusal to answer Senate questions about border czar Tom Homan allegedly accepting a $50,000 bribe caught on FBI video. Dilanian, who co-authored the original report on Homan’s recorded cash handoff, blasted Bondi for stonewalling Democrats and dodging accountability by deflecting questions with personal attacks. “There’s no reason she can’t say what happened to the money,” Dilanian fumed, calling her silence “obvious” and “infuriating.”

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President Donald Trump boasted Tuesday that his deal with Pfizer would slash drug prices by “300% or more,” a mathematically impossible claim. The agreement, according to CNBC, trades a three-year suspension of tariffs for the pharmaceutical giant’s pledge to build U.S. manufacturing plants, with Trump hyping the announcement as “one of the biggest things that we’ll do.”

Before heading off for a day at the Ryder Cup, Donald Trump unleashed a string of angry Truth Social posts aimed at former FBI Director James Comey, who was indicted Thursday by newly appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan on federal charges. Trump, who has long sought Comey’s prosecution, used the news to revive his claim that the former FBI chief lied to Congress—calling it a “very simple, but IMPORTANT” lie that couldn’t be explained away.

Trump also preemptively attacked the legal process by blasting U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, appointed by President Joe Biden, who was assigned to oversee the case. Labeling Comey a “dirty cop” and “destroyer of lives,” Trump insisted his onetime nemesis must now “pay a very big price.” The tirade capped off with Trump in all-caps rage branding Comey a “DIRTY COP” as he sought to rally his supporters before a day of golf.

President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed the “radical left” for a deadly Dallas ICE shooting the day before, and warned of possible retaliation from his supporters. Speaking alongside Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Trump claimed the right is “a lot tougher than the left” and suggested things could “go back on them.” Notably absent from his remarks was any mention of the ICE detainees killed and wounded in the attack.

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At a campaign-style event in Concord, North Carolina, Vice President JD Vance leaned into familiar GOP attacks on Democrats as “soft on crime,” pointing to the killing of Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s light rail and the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk. Framed by armored vehicles and local police, Vance sought to project toughness — but his message was overshadowed by breaking news of a deadly shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, where one detainee was killed and two critically injured.

The ICE shooting, quickly politicized by Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel as an act of left-wing extremism, underscored how the administration is using violence to amplify its hardline immigration agenda. Vance cast Democrats as enablers of “violent radicals” and suggested local officials were failing to keep communities safe, though he stopped short of threatening federal intervention in Charlotte as the White House has in other cities. He also repeated baseless claims that Kirk’s killing was orchestrated by a far-left network.

At Charlie Kirk’s memorial service in Glendale, Arizona, President Donald Trump praised the slain conservative activist for uniting the MAGA movement and for his approach to debate—but also drew a sharp contrast between them. Trump told mourners he disagreed with Kirk’s willingness to wish his political opponents well, recounting a story in which Kirk said he wanted to “lead them into the great way of life in our country.”

“That's where I disagreed with Charlie,” Trump said. “I hate my opponent and I don't want the best for them.” Trump added that perhaps Kirk’s widow, Erika, could persuade him otherwise, but insisted, “Right now I can’t stand my opponent.”