President Donald Trump declined to take questions just hours after an attorney with the Department of Justice said that the administration would defy a law requiring all of the files on Jeffrey Epstein to be released by the end of the day.

Trump ended a Friday meeting with pharmaceutical CEOs by announcing that he had suddenly had an idea to meet with health insurance companies. The president insisted that he didn't want to "soil" his idea by taking questions from the media.

"I said to myself, you know, look at what they've done. They've done something that, and as you said, something that you never thought was possible to get done," Trump explained after the pharma CEOs spoke about lowering prices. "And I said to myself, standing watching these great leaders ... I said, you know... I think that the insurance companies, we should have a meeting or we should talk to them. Because I would say that maybe with one talk, they would be willing to cut their prices by 50, 60, or 70%."

"So we're going to be calling a meeting," he continued. "And I'd prefer not talking and asking questions only for the reason that this is such a big announcement, meaning what these people have said and what the other four companies are going to say, which is exactly the same thing that I really don't want to soil it up by asking questions, even questions that are very fair questions, that I'd love to answer."

Earlier on Friday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed to Fox News that not all of the Epstein files would be released by the deadline.

"I expect that we're going to release more documents over the next couple of weeks. So today, several hundred thousand. And then over the next couple weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more," he said.

The Trump administration was dealt a rare Supreme Court shadow docket loss on Friday in a case that challenges a Justice Department policy that restricts immigration judges from speaking publicly about immigration issues without prior approval.

Josh Gerstein, senior legal affairs reporter at Politico, shared the shadow docket ruling on X in a case that stems from a lawsuit the National Association of Immigration Judges filed against the Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review. The immigration judges challenged review policies that limit what immigration judges can publicly say about issues related to their official duties.

NAIJ had said the rule violates the First Amendment. The EOIR chief asked the Supreme Court to halt a lower court's mandate that sent the case back to the district court, arguing that Supreme Court precedent already makes clear that the Civil Service Reform Act channels these disputes out of the district court.

But on Friday, the Supreme Court denied the Trump administration's request, so the lower court's remand order stayed in effect as the underlying jurisdictional and First Amendment issues continue to be litigated.

Gerstein noted it was a "rare" shadow docket loss for the Trump administration, but added on X, "Court tempers blow by inviting DOJ to come back if discovery is approved."

"At this stage, the Government has not demonstrated that it will suffer irreparable harm without a stay," the shadow docket ruling said.

As of October, Trump secured victories in 20 shadow docket rulings out of 23 decisions involving his administration this year.

A manager who was fired from President Donald Trump's Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club has filed an explosive lawsuit detailing horrific conditions, reported The Daily Beast on Friday, and noting that even Trump himself was disgusted by the state of the facility.

"The president was dragged into the state of the $350,000-a-year New Jersey club in a lawsuit brought by a fired manager, who claims she was forced out of her job for flagging the dire health violations at the New Jersey club’s clubhouse bistro restaurant," reported Laura Esposito. According to the report, the lawsuit claims the club "had maggots and mold in [Trump's] favorite self-serve ice cream, while it employed drunk kitchen staff and lecherous managers who drunkenly phoned female wait staff to demand they come to their homes late at night."

Trump went out of his way to complain about the state of the kitchen, per the suit, particularly about the infestation of flies.

The suit also alleges that when the manager, Justine Sacks, arrived for her first day of work, her boss, general manager David Schutzenhofer, told her that fellow assistant manager Raul Sicoe had "an issue with women," that Sicoe completely ignored her on shift to the point of not even looking at her, that she was instructed to only hire women with a particular "look," and that when she called HR to complain about managers propositioning employees, Schutzenhofer berated her and called her a "miserable person."

In the suit's account, she tried to raise alarms about a number of health violations, including pests and mold, drunken employees, employees smoking in the kitchen, food being served past its expiration date, and an incident in which the club's bistro had no running water for a whole day. However, after a health inspector flagged 18 violations and gave the facility the worst grade in the county, she was the one fired.

“Ms. Sacks was targeted because she refused to stay silent about sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and serious health and safety violations that put employees and patrons at risk,” wrote Sacks' attorney.

Trump's properties have faced similar allegations in the past. In 2017, his Mar-a-Lago resort was cited for 13 health code violations in the kitchen — including failure to treat raw fish for parasites and failing to properly refrigerate ham — just as the Japanese prime minister was set to visit.