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Maryland senator denied visitation with wrongly deported man in El Salvador

by Shauneen Miranda, Daily Montanan
April 16, 2025

Republicans who once had their hair on fire over the use of the IRS as a political weapon are completely silent as Trump is openly doing just that, longtime Republican pollster Sarah Longwell noted in a thread posted to X on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump is moving to revoke the tax-exempt status of Harvard University in retaliation for the institution refusing to change its hiring practices and other policies in line with Trump's rescission of research funding. Trump made similar threats against Columbia University, which ultimately bowed to his political demands.

Harvey Weinstein's lawyers asked Wednesday he be allowed to spend the night in the hospital during his retrial on rape charges, saying the movie mogul's health was deteriorating rapidly because of "mistreatment" in New York's notorious Rikers prison.

In papers filed with the court, a lawyer said 73-year-old Weinstein had received lacking care in prison while suffering from a number of "serious medical conditions," including leukemia, diabetes, thyroid problems, obesity, back pain, sciatica and other health woes.

Attorney and author Shan Wu is writing in the Daily Beast that President Donadl Trump is demanding the power to prosecute individuals and whole groups of people alike without either the benefit of court or legal language.

Trump is using executive orders at “a record-breaking” pace to “further personal grievances” that are untethered to the law,” says Wu. This includes his presidential memoranda accusing his own former officials, Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, of crimes including, in the case of Taylor, treason — which carries a potential death sentence.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told a court this week he's broke and won't be able to write a check for all of the sanctions he's been ordered to pay.

Lindell claimed in court Wednesday that he and his company had "a combined $70 million in debt." He said the IRS is also garnishing him.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday continued his assault against the American judicial system in a social media post where he strongly criticized a federal judge who handed the White House a legal defeat yesterday.

“Can you believe it? A Judge ruled against us on 530,000 Illegal Migrants (that Joe Biden flew over the Border in his program to transport Illegals into the Country by airplane) saying that they can’t be looked at as a group, but that each case has to be tried individually,” Trump wrote Wednesday in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform.

by Elodie SOINARD

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday denied in court that his company bought rival services Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize them, as his testimony in a landmark antitrust case came to a close.

California is suing the federal government over Donald Trump's on-again-off-again tariffs, the governor and attorney general said Wednesday, claiming the American president does not have the right to impose them.

The move marks the strongest pushback yet against a tariff roll-out that has sent global stock markets into meltdown, and left businesses across the US fretting about uncertainty.

CNN conservative Scott Jennings sparked an on-air clash with Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) as the two found themselves on opposite sides of the brewing debate over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia – and the Democratic efforts to retrieve him.

The heated exchange unfolded Wednesday on CNN’s “The Arena” as Jennings, a longtime GOP strategist, continued to insist that the Maryland father deported to an El Salvadoran mega-prison by President Donald Trump last month did not have a legal right to remain in the United States.

President Donald Trump is hoping that Republicans in Congress will pass a "big, beautiful bill' sooner rather than later and get it onto his desk for signature.

But within House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-Louisiana) caucus, there are some major differences over what should or shouldn't go into the bill. And Senate Republicans don't necessarily see eye to eye with House Republicans on the megabill that Trump envisions.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave a speech in which he called autism "preventable" and vowed to prioritize a hunt for environmental causes, drawing ire and condemnation from researchers into neurodivergence, reported The New York Times on Wednesday.

Kennedy has long pushed conspiracy theories linking autism to vaccination, an idea based on a long-discredited, fraudulent study that has no evidence to support it. He has halfheartedly tried to show his support for vaccination, in the midst of a deadly Texas measles outbreak, and did not mention vaccines at his autism speech, but still pushed a number of ideas scientists dispute.

With no debate, the House voted 111-1 on Wednesday to prohibit unelected state employees from conducting campaign-type activities during working hours and require agency heads to live in Tallahassee.

Similar legislation is advancing in the Senate, but Gov. Ron DeSantis has signaled that he will veto the proposal if it reaches his desk.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday suggested the Justice Department is considering legal action against Minnesota for allowing transgender athletes to participate in girls’ and women’s sports.

The Trump administration on Wednesday sued Maine over policies that allow some trans athletes to compete in women’s sports. Bondi said Maine is violating federal law intended to prevent discrimination based on sex.