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Trump torched with stinging rebuke from WSJ after tirade: 'Ugly even by Trump’s standards'

The Wall Street Journal's editorial board delivered a blistering rebuke to President Donald Trump following his fiery outburst earlier in the day to the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision striking down his signature emergency tariff policy.

In a stinging opinion piece, the conservative publication argued that Trump owes an apology to both the individual justices he attacked and the institution itself. The editors admitted that's unlikely to happen.

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Trump melts down at Supreme Court and vows to circumvent ruling: 'Should be ashamed!'

President Donald Trump lashed out again Friday evening at members of the Supreme Court who voted against his tariff policy, calling their decision "ridiculous" and vowing to work around the loss.

The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs in a 6–3 decision authored by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts. The justices held that the underlying statute does not clearly authorize such broad unilateral tariff powers, marking a major rebuke of a signature second-term economic policy.

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Secret Service’s ‘odd’ new suit policy raises eyebrows

New Secret Service agents assigned to protective details are set to receive a taxpayer-funded wardrobe upgrade, according to a new CNN exclusive report.

The Secret Service will provide two tailored suits to agents graduating from protective detail training, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, citing a recently published public contract solicitation. The suits will be navy blue, made entirely in the United States, and include embroidered name labels inside the jackets.

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Trump signs global tariff order hours after Supreme Court defeat

President Donald Trump made it official on Friday night, signing into effect a revised version of his global tariff regime mere hours after the Supreme Court invalidated his use of emergency economic powers.

Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform.

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'Withering rebuke': Legal expert says Supreme Court sent Trump a 'blunt message'

President Donald Trump's loss at the Supreme Court over his tariff policy was more than a big blow to his agenda, Mark Joseph Stern wrote for Slate on Friday — it was a hopeful sign for judicial independence, and a shot across the bow by a Supreme Court that for a year has mostly rubber-stamped his legal priorities.

"Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion for the court sends the blunt message that Trump should not expect SCOTUS to rubber-stamp all of his expansions of executive power, no matter how much political pressure he puts on the justices," wrote Stern, a frequent critic of the court's right-wing bloc. "This rejoinder may be surprising given the Republican-appointed supermajority’s previous tolerance for the president’s assertions of king-like authority. But as Roberts’ crisp, confident opinion explains, allowing the president to impose taxes unilaterally — at least without clear congressional authority — is an existential threat to the very 'existence and prosperity' of the nation."

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America just got a blaring sign Trumpism is 'crumbling': analyst

The Supreme Court’s sweeping decision invalidating most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs is more than a legal defeat – it’s a warning sign for the long-term viability of Trumpism itself, according to a new analysis in The New Republic.

Trump’s devastating Supreme Court loss – backed by two of his hand-picked justices – signals that the foundations of his populist nationalist agenda are beginning to crack, wrote columnist Greg Sargent.

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ICE accidentally exposes masterminds behind 'mega' plan in leaked PDF blunder

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared to accidentally expose the masterminds behind its massive detention center overhaul, according to a new report.

A PDF document provided to Gov. Kelly Ayotte's (R-NH) office about ICE's sprawling "Detention Reengineering Initiative" contained embedded metadata and comments that named names, Wired reported Friday. Jonathan Florentino, director of ICE's Newark Field Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations, was listed as the author.

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'Shaky': Economist says desperate Trump's new tariff ploy is already full of holes

President Donald Trump went out of his way, following the Supreme Court decision striking down his move to impose tariffs under emergency powers law, to say he will keep the tariffs in place, using a different set of federal statutes that he claims still put the policy on lawful footing — something Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued he could try to do in his dissent.

However, economic historian Phil Magness warned that Trump's new order to impose a 10 percent global tariff under the so-called Section 122 power already faces massive legal problems.

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Conservative Supreme Court just 'trapped' top Republicans: report

Republican leaders are facing a new political dilemma – thanks to the Supreme Court’s devastating blow to President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda.

The ruling means any future votes on tariffs "will no longer be symbolic" as Congress will now be forced to decide whether to restore the president’s signature policy through legislation, according to Axios.

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Chaos as Trump DOJ seeks to revoke citizenship of ex-mayor

Federal prosecutors are reportedly trying to strip U.S. citizenship from former North Miami Mayor Philippe Bien-Aime over allegations of a decades-long identity deception.

The Department of Justice filed denaturalization charges Wednesday in federal court, claiming Bien-Aime unlawfully entered the United States in 1997 using a fraudulent "photo-switched" passport under the alias Jean Philippe Janvier, NBC News reported. An immigration judge ordered his removal in 2000, but authorities alleged he never left, instead disappearing into a new identity as Philippe Bien-Aime.

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Supreme Court handed Trump a 'humiliating' gift: analyst

The U.S. Supreme Court may have just handed President Donald Trump a political gift – one that’s deeply humiliating, according to The Atlantic’s David Frum.

In a ruling that struck down Trump’s sweeping tariff regime, the MAGAfied high court delivered a decisive check on presidential power, making clear that the Constitution assigns taxing authority to Congress, not the White House. His tariffs, which began in April, were projected to raise as much as $2.3 trillion over 10 years, Frum wrote Friday.

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Revealed: Surprising reason John Roberts may like Trump's 'tongue-lashing'

President Donald Trump ruthlessly slammed the Supreme Court on Friday in reaction to the justices voiding his authority to enact tariffs under emergency powers law — but those attacks probably are of no concern to Chief Justice John Roberts, CNN's Jeff Zeleny speculated.

In fact, Zeleny wrote in a text update displayed on the network, he is likely pleased to see it, for a simple reason.

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Trump mocked after bizarre segue about fending off smooch: 'Now he understands consent?'

President Donald Trump went off on a bizarre tangent in his Friday speech, slamming the Supreme Court's decision to block his power to issue tariffs under emergency powers law — claiming that he visited a factory in Georgia, and the owner was so grateful for Trump's trade policies that the president had to fend off a smooch.

"'President, I'd love to kiss you' — this is a very powerful man. I don't want to be kissed by that man," said Trump. "But a very powerful, strong man ... he said, 'Sir, I want to kiss you so badly.' And I said, 'No thank you.'"

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