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A federal judge in Texas has issued an order so extreme that it may rise to the level of impeachable conduct, Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern argued Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, a George W. Bush appointee who previously tried to strike down the Affordable Care Act and ruled against the FDA's approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, issued an order this week directing Rhode Island Hospital to hand over private medical records and Social Security numbers of transgender minors who received gender-affirming care.

The Senate voted to advance a bill curbing President Donald Trump's Iran war powers with the surprise support of Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA).

According to The Associated Press, "Since Trump ordered the attack on Iran at the end of February, Democrats have forced repeated votes on war powers resolutions that would require him to either gain congressional approval for the war or withdraw troops. Republicans had been able to muster the votes to reject those proposals, but Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy — fresh off a primary election loss in which Trump endorsed his opponent — switched sides to deliver a crucial vote to advance the legislation."

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) is on his way out after President Donald Trump worked to get him defeated in his own primary — but he's signaling defiance on the way out the door, voting alongside Democrats on Tuesday night to advance a resolution limiting the president's powers to wage war in Iran.

The move, which comes as Democrats are introducing such measures every week, caused a stir among commenters on social media — many of whom weren't quick to view Cassidy as an anti-Trump hero just yet, but who nonetheless noticed the senator's newfound incentives against the leader of his party.

Sparks flew at a Senate hearing on Tuesday when Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) cornered Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy about his seven-month "Great American Road Trip" paid for by a slew of corporations his agency regulates — and Duffy did everything he could to deflect and resist criticism.

"Let's talk about the Great American Vacation," said Gillibrand.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose championed a voting policy that makes it harder to cast ballots from overseas — then his own overseas ballot got thrown out.

According to Statehouse News Bureau, "In early April, when ... LaRose was deployed with the Ohio Army National Guard in Europe, he cast a ballot for the May primary. He tracked his overseas ballot, the same way he's advised all Ohioans who cast mail-in ballots to do. LaRose's spokesman Ben Kindel said when the ballot hadn't arrived by election day, LaRose went to his local precinct and cast a provisional ballot in person."

A landmark study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research has found that President Donald Trump’s mass deportation operations are actually costing Americans jobs, contrary to the White House’s frequent claims that its anti-immigration agenda is helping US workers.

The NBER study, which was published last month and reported on by The New York Times Tuesday, claims to provide “the first national, causal empirical evidence on the labor market impacts of immigration enforcement in the second Trump administration,” and finds that mass deportations have not resulted in more job offers for native-born Americans.

President Donald Trump has picked off Republicans he considers insufficiently loyal in the Senate — with the result that he may have just created a GOP Senate majority too paralyzed, deadlocked, and resentful to do his bidding at all.

This comes after Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), one of the few remaining Republican senators to vote in favor of impeaching Trump after Jan. 6, was defeated in his primary when Trump endorsed opponent Julia Letlow, and after Trump endorsed Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate primary over longtime incumbent John Cornyn.