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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) still hasn't sworn in an Arizona Democrat who won her special election last month, and she suspects he's blocking her to prevent the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva came to Washington last week after decisively winning her Sept. 23 election to replace her late father in Congress, but the Louisiana Republican still hasn't organized a swearing-in ceremony, and she told "CNN News Central" the delay is unusual.

Trump administration policy adviser Stephen Miller, one of the government's most strident anti-immigrant hardliners, was confronted by CNN's Boris Sanchez on Monday about whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement is engaged in racial profiling — and repeatedly deflected the question until finally denying it and trying to change the subject.

"So on the substance of the question, is it the case that, as [Illinois Gov. J.B.] Pritzker frames it, you are profiling brown people, that, that this immigration crackdown is designed to go after people of color?" said Sanchez.

The Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied President Donald Trump's attempt to stop the appeal of his firing of Voice of America Director Michael Abramowitz in a 3-0 decision Monday.

When Trump entered office, a slate of cuts was made across the government. Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S. government-funded broadcast service that distributes news and information in 48 different languages to various countries in their own languages. A significant portion of the staff for the agency, founded by Congress, was cut, including the director.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to blame Democrats for the government shutdown, but former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele called him out for his "baloney" around the shutdown.

"People say, 'Why aren't you negotiating with Democrats?' I literally don't have anything to negotiate," said Johnson when speaking to MSNBC. "I didn't put any of my Republican priorities on the [continuing resolution]. So, I can't pull those off and say, 'Gee, is it better now? Can you vote for it?' I sent over to the Senate exactly what they voted on the last time, and now suddenly they want to have a political fight.'

A federal prosecutor in Virginia reportedly told colleagues that she has not found probable cause to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James, despite President Donald Trump's call for her prosecution.

Two sources familiar with the matter told MSNBC that Assistant United States Attorney Elizabeth Yusi was expected to inform acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan of her conclusion in the coming weeks. Trump recently appointed Halligan to the post after Erik Siebert resigned while resisting pressure to charge James and former FBI Director James Comey, who was eventually indicted.

The Justice Department waged a legal battle against the chief U.S. District Court judge for the District of Columbia, but appeared to have messed up the paperwork.

Legal analyst Liz Dye, who writes at "Law and Chaos" and also co-hosts the site's podcast, pointed out that the DOJ's effort to claim Judge James Boasberg committed some form of "misconduct" failed to attach any proof of that misconduct.

Conservative radio host and GOP strategist Andrea Kaye attacked Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny on Monday during an appearance on Newsmax as “anti-American” over his monologue on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, while also lambasting all undocumented migrants as “parasites.”

Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, opened SNL’s 51st season Saturday by addressing the conservative backlash to the NFL selecting him to headline the 2026 Super Bowl, and partly in Spanish.

Stories are piling up of American citizens and those otherwise legally in the United States being arrested or detained by federal agents carrying out warrantless raids.

Americans being stopped, brutalized, and detained by federal agents have become known as the "Kavanaugh Stop," wrote legal analysts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern for Slate. The name comes from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote in a ruling that American citizens were not being swept up in the federal raids.

Republicans approved $45 billion in funding to dramatically increase detention capacity for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but so far the agency hasn't added much to that system, according to a report.

President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act gave enough money to ICE to nearly triple its detention capacity to more than 100,000 beds, but The Atlantic reported that the agency's arrests peaked in June — the month before the law was signed — and has gone down in the months since then.