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Supreme Court gutted its own ruling to hand Trump another victory: GOP lawyer

The Supreme Court undermined its own prior rulings to give President Donald Trump a win on his mail-in ballot executive order, GOP legal expert Ben Ginsberg told CNN's Kaitlan Collins.

The order requires the U.S. Postal Service to restrict delivery of mail ballots to states that haven't handed over vast troves of voter information to the Department of Homeland Security — which, if implemented now, could lead to widespread chaos.

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'Entrapment': Analyst reveals how far-right influencer's paranoia set off a MAGA civil war

The Bulwark's Will Sommer took a deep dive on Monday into how the Trump administration tried to feed information to a trusted MAGA influencer — and her paranoia of "entrapment" set off a "circular firing squad" within the pro-Trump movement.

The controversy surrounds Jennica Pounds, better known as "Data Republican."

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WSJ warns Trump's new attack on Canada will blow up in his face: 'His own worst enemy'

President Donald Trump's latest round of trade war against Canada is self-defeating, warned the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board — because he'll take the U.S. auto industry down in the process.

"Mr. Trump is angry that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney over the weekend vowed to retaliate dollar-for-dollar against his latest tariff barrage," wrote the board. For that reason, he is imposing a 50 percent tariff on “all Cars, Trucks, both large and small, Automotive Parts, and Steel,” according to his Truth Social posting.

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Trump put himself in an 'unusual position' after he overlooked 'groundswell': analysis

President Donald Trump has put himself in an "unusual position" after he overlooked a populist groundswell that a younger Trump may have pounced on, according to a new analysis.

According to recent polling, upwards of three-quarters of Americans are against building new artificial intelligence data centers. Yet Trump has continued to hawk data centers, claiming recently that communities that resist them are making a "big mistake" because of their potential to generate revenue.

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Republicans sprinting from Trump as polls sink with 'no end in sight': ex-insider

President Donald Trump’s plummeting approval rating shows Republicans are increasingly turning against him as an escalating Middle East conflict drives up gas prices, a former administration insider said Monday.

Sarah Matthews, who served as a Trump White House deputy press secretary during his first White House term, sounded the alarm on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” after a new poll showed Trump’s approval rating hitting an all-time low of 33%, with 65% disapproving.

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Trump's 'ever-present' aide mysteriously vanishes from White House video: report

Donald Trump’s ever-present aide Natalie Harp attended Sunday’s Freedom 250 Grand Prix event in the president’s official viewing box - but she was nowhere to be found in the White House’s official video of the event.

Harp, 35, appeared in numerous photographs and videos from the Washington, D.C. event, but was largely excluded from the White House’s tightly edited social media footage, The Daily Beast reported Monday.

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Court throws wrench in Trump's deportation plans — using the exact ruling the GOP wanted

The Republican Party desperately wanted the Supreme Court to overturn a 40-year precedent — but now they're getting more than they bargained for.

The GOP threw its weight behind a landmark 2024 case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, that overturned the Chevron doctrine, the precedent that judges must defer to experts at federal agencies when interpreting the law. The Chevron doctrine was ironically written by a conservative Supreme Court at a time when the lower courts were more liberal, and agency experts were more conservative — but in 2024, the reverse was true, so the GOP wanted the precedent gone.

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'Bad for thee but not for me': Erin Burnett torches Trump with his own mail ballot words

CNN's Erin Burnett rocked President Donald Trump's past claims about mail-in voting in a devastating supercut on Monday.

The Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling on Monday blocking a lower court's injunction that prohibited the Department of Homeland Security from creating its own voter roll. Experts sounded the alarm after the 6-3 ruling because it could throw the midterm elections, just 10 weeks away, into chaos.

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Trump's big Supreme Court voting victory could come crashing down by morning: expert

President Donald Trump scored a win at the Supreme Court on Monday as it dismissed a block on his executive order to put new restrictions on mail-in voting. But it could be very short-lived.

As Georgetown Law professor Steve Vladeck explained in a lengthy analysis, the ruling doesn't actually let Trump's plan take effect immediately — and another ruling is likely to come down as soon as tomorrow morning that renders it moot.

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Experts sound alarm after Supreme Court hands Trump 'sweeping seizure of election power'

Legal experts raised chilling questions about the Supreme Court's latest ruling, which gave President Donald Trump's administration a temporary win in its crusade to restrict mail-in ballots.

On Monday, the court lifted a lower court's injunction that prevented Trump's mail-in ballot executive order from being implemented. The order required the Postal Service to list voters who use mail-in ballots and told the Department of Homeland Security to create its own voter roll. The order is part of Trump's long-standing attacks against mail-in voting, which he has described as "fraud" despite having voted by mail in multiple recent Florida elections.

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Maggie Haberman flags the 'tepid' tell in Mike Johnson's response to Kushner meeting

A veteran New York Times reporter spotted a revealing detail in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s response to a news-making bipartisan meeting: his reluctance to anger the president or his inner circle.

Maggie Haberman, who has covered Trump extensively, made the observation Monday on CNN while discussing Johnson’s reaction to Jared Kushner’s private meeting with House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries.

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'Reeks of pay-to-play': Legal expert horrified by Trump strong-arming his own DOJ

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann was aghast over new reporting that President Donald Trump intervened directly to broker a sweetheart settlement for the Live Nation concert monopoly case.

Live Nation's anticompetitive practices, partly carried out through its subsidiary Ticketmaster, have unfairly cost millions of people extra to get tickets to live venues, and even some of Trump's own allies, like Kid Rock, have condemned the settlement as a disaster. The new reporting reveals the breakthrough happened when Live Nation retained a law firm Trump himself has used to get out of many legal snafus.

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'Strongly reconsider this': GOP strategist breaks ranks after bombshell mail-vote order

A GOP strategist broke ranks on Monday after the Supreme Court handed down a bombshell ruling on President Donald Trump's mail-in ballot executive order.

The Supreme Court lifted a lower court's injunction preventing the executive order from going into effect on procedural grounds. The narrow order is likely to cause chaos ahead of the midterm elections, which are about 10 weeks away, according to some experts.

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