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Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff for policy in President Donald Trump’s administration, issued an ominous threat Friday that Gov J.B. Pritzker could face arrest for "seditious conspiracy."

Miller made the remarkable comment during a Friday interview with Fox News' Will Cain.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just temporarily paused a ruling from a split three-judge panel that would have allowed President Donald Trump to call up the National Guard in Portland, Oregon, against protesters at that city's Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

That means that, for the time being, Trump remains stymied from calling up the Guard in Portland.

A protester who claims to have been arrested for exercising his First Amendment rights against the Trump administration spoke out to MSNBC's Jason Johnson on Friday.

The protester, Sam O'Hara, was briefly detained by the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. for following behind National Guard troops Trump deployed to the city, blasting "The Imperial March," an iconic Star Wars track also known colloquially as Darth Vader's theme. The song is heavily associated in pop culture with villainy and totalitarianism.

With a majority of Americans now recognizing that President Donald Trump is weaponizing the US Department of Justice, the DOJ’s Friday announcement that it will send election monitors to California and New Jersey is generating alarm.

Republicans in both states had written to the DOJ, requesting monitors for the Nov. 4 general elections in which Californians will vote on Proposition 50, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s answer to Trump’s mid-decade gerrymandering in GOP-led states, and New Jersey residents will pick their next governor.

Unaccompanied immigrant teenagers are being slapped with $5,000 fines from the federal government as a way to pressure them to return to their home countries, according to reporting Friday at The Intercept.

“It’s really about creating fear,” attorney Ana Raquel Devereaux said. “There’s no way that a child in this situation would be able to pay this, and the penalties are so severe.”

President Donald Trump's Justice Department is planning to send federal election monitors to California and New Jersey next month after receiving requests from state Republican officials.

The Justice Department said it would send monitors to Passaic County, New Jersey, as well as to Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Riverside and Fresno counties in California.

Economist Paul Krugman said President Donald Trump’s removal of a whole White House wing is typical Trumpian style: an “act of vandalism" being paid for by large corporate donors — mostly tech and crypto companies — seeking to buy Trump’s favor.

“I am sure there will be a Trump meme-coin dispenser installed on every table,” Krugman said.

Ten former leaders of Caribbean nations on Friday called on the current governments across the region to unite in a diplomatic effort to counter President Donald Trump’s unprovoked escalation, in which the US has struck at least 10 vessels in less than two months, claiming without evidence that the Trump administration is fighting “narco-terrorists” from Venezuela.

Former prime ministers of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, and St. Lucia signed a joint statement titled “Caribbean Space: A Zone of Peace on Land, Sea and Airspace Where the Rule of Law Prevails,” and called on current leaders to recall the 1972 regional meeting at Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago.

President Donald Trump's abuses of power are something no Trump supporter would tolerate for a second if they were on the receiving end of it, Isaac Saul wrote for Tangle on Friday — and he proposed a number of thought experiments to prove it.

"I want to share my perspective on the moment we are living in," wrote Saul. "And the honest truth, as I see it, is that things are actually pretty bad right now. Nearly everything in the political arena — the candidates, the policies, the extremism, the AI slop, the punditry, the writing, the thinking, the principles — it all seems to be getting worse in basically every meaningful way. And, to me, one of the driving forces behind all of this is the Trump administration."

President Donald Trump's favorability with Hispanics has nosedived by 19 percentage points over the past 10 months, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center poll results released Friday, The Hill reported.

A whopping 73 percent of Hispanic voters disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job — compared to just 27 percent who approve, the poll found. The Hill noted that "the results come as the Hispanic population has been targeted by some immigration enforcement officials for stops."

President Donald Trump's ramped-up hostilities with Venezuela drew a stern warning Friday from an unlikely source — the staunchly conservative National Review.

"It would be a colossal mistake for the president to glide listlessly into a war in South America for which he sought no public support or congressional buy-in," Noah Rothman, senior writer for the magazine, admonished Trump. "There is no legal basis for such an operation in the absence of an attack on U.S. assets or personnel.