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President Donald Trump triggered outrage for forcing out his own hand-picked federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia for failing to find the evidence to bring criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey. And a New York Times report on Tuesday revealed his federal prosecutor in the Western District of Virginia was forced out under similar circumstances.

The prosecutor, Todd Gilbert, was forced to resign over the summer, sparking extensive speculation and alarm.

Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor thrashed her colleagues on Tuesday for refusing to hear a death penalty case despite "extraordinary misconduct" from a juror, according to a new report.

Sotomayor issued a blistering dissent on Tuesday after the court refused to rehear the death sentence case against Stacey Humphreys, a man from Georgia who alleged that the actions of a biased jury member led to his conviction, according to a report from Newsweek. The Supreme Court refused to grant certiorari to Humphreys, which Sotomayor found unacceptable.

The Department of State has revoked at least six visas from people who made negative comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk following his assassination in September, according to a new report.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that foreign nationals from Argentina, South Africa, and Mexico had their visas revoked. An Argentine national allegedly said Kirk spread "racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric." A post from a German national shared with the outlet read in part, “When fascists die, democrats don’t complain.”

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) compared President Donald Trump's governing style to a notorious Nazi jurist during an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett on Tuesday.

Khanna joined Burnett on her show, "OutFront," to discuss Trump's decision to bailout Argentina with a $20 billion currency swap with the country's central bank and the impact of the government shutdown on American households. Khanna said Trump has presented a "clear view" of governance, one that seems closely aligned with Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.

A teacher in Miami-Dade County, Florida, is reportedly facing a state investigation over her social media posts, part of a larger effort to root out any educators in the state who made disparaging comments on social media about right-wing activist Charlie Kirk after his murder in September.

But according to the Miami Herald, this teacher didn't post anything about Kirk. However, she did share a post criticizing state officials for investigating her colleagues' posts.

A military veteran who was recently arrested by President Donald Trump's immigration agents trashed the administration on Tuesday during an interview on CNN.

George Retes, a 25-year-old military veteran, was arrested by immigration officials in July during a raid on a marijuana farm where Retes worked as a contract security guard. He was detained for three days, where he was reportedly placed on suicide watch.

CNN's Katelyn Polantz dropped new details on Tuesday evening about a criminal investigation against President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser John Bolton, which apparently concerns his unlawful handling of classified information.

This comes as Trump's Justice Department rushes through cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James that are widely considered to be politically motivated and ill-conceived by legal experts; however, the Bolton case appears to be different, as the Biden administration reportedly was also investigating Bolton and had complicated reasons for not wanting to bring the case unrelated to his guilt.

Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) is breaking ranks to scold GOP leadership for keeping the House closed for business throughout the shutdown, reported the Huffington Post on Tuesday.

Kiley stood on the House floor during the so-called "pro-forma" session, where another lawmaker banged the gavel as a technicality to prevent the House from being adjourned, even as it was for all intents and purposes. Speaking to HuffPost after, he said, “God, I wanted to at least remember what the floor looked like. It’s been almost a month that we’ve been out of session. We’ve been out of session 71 out of 83 days.”

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to former special counsel Jack Smith demanding that he give a "transcribed interview" to answer questions about his prosecution of President Donald Trump and alleged "surveillance" of members of Congress. But a keen legal analyst noted Jordan faces a major problem.

Posting the letter from Jordan, legal analyst and commentator Allison Gill posted to her "Mueller, She Wrote" Bluesky account that Jordan will have a difficult time getting Smith to testify about the "raid" on Mar-a-Lago — Smith wasn't working for the Justice Department or even affiliated with the special counsel's office when the FBI conducted its search of Trump's country club to obtain the classified documents taken from the White House.

Ex-Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy issued a stark warning about democracy in his memoir that was released on Tuesday, but the warning fell on deaf ears for two Democratic analysts.

David Sirota and Veronica Riccobene of The Lever pushed back against Kennedy's warnings in a new article on Tuesday, arguing that Kennedy's warning that democracy is not guaranteed to survive seemed to artfully forget his role in creating the crisis. Sirota and Riccobene cited the Citizens United decision, which stated that PAC donations "including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption."

Former special counsel Jack Smith spoke at the University College London as part of a discussion with former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann.

While Smith walked through his time at the International Criminal Court, the second half of the discussion dealt specifically with his time working on the prosecution of then-former President Donald Trump.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) received significant pushback on Tuesday to his letter calling on former special counsel Jack Smith to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.

Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, wrote in his letter that Smith's team conducted a "partisan and politically motivated" investigation of Trump's mishandling of classified information after he left office in 2020. Jordan added that Smith "undermined the integrity of the criminal justice system."