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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) isn't happy with the tactics President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr, is using to punish broadcast news networks — and warned that they are becoming "speech police."

On Tuesday, the FCC ordered Disney-owned ABC affiliates to file their broadcast license renewals early, a strong signal that the agency is threatening to revoke their right to broadcast. The move is reportedly retaliation after late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about first lady Melania Trump.

FBI Director Kash Patel might have just violated critical rules around grand jury secrecy at a press conference announcing the new indictment of his predecessor James Comey, a legal expert flagged on Tuesday.

Comey, who was already indicted for allegedly making false statements to Congress — only for that charge to be dropped because the DOJ's prosecutor was improperly appointed — is now charged with making threats against President Donald Trump, because he posted an Instagram photo of seashells arranged to spell "8647" — the implication being that Trump, the 47th president, should be "86ed."

A political analyst was outraged on Tuesday after Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt issued an "abundantly clear" threat to the press during her briefing.

Leavitt, who returned early from maternity leave to hold the daily briefing, told reporters about the Trump administration's efforts to "tone down the rhetoric" following the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. At the event, a lone gunman fired several rounds inside the Washington Hilton, where the dinner was held. A Secret Service agent was hit in their bulletproof vest and survived. No one was killed, and the president and members of his cabinet were rushed out of the event unscathed.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lashed out at her own party on Tuesday, demanding a congressional investigation into Corey Lewandowski, the on-again/off-again Trump adviser who is believed to have effectively run the Department of Homeland Security on behalf of disgraced former Secretary Kristi Noem.

Mace aired her grievances in an open letter published to X from her account, although she appears to be the only signatory despite speaking in plural throughout.

President Donald Trump is poised to suffer one last defeat at the hands of the Federal Reserve tomorrow as Chairman Jerome Powell prepares to depart, according to a new report.

Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that the central bank seems likely to vote to hold interest rates steady at its next meeting, even though Trump has publicly pressured the bank to lower interest rates throughout his second administration. Powell has previously cited the war in Iran and elevated inflation as reasons the central bank would leave interest rates unchanged.

Analysts were aghast on Tuesday after a new report indicated that the Trump administration had reinstated the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this year.

ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Good in late January during "Operation Metro Surge," a federal action that sent more than 3,000 immigration agents into the city to combat protests against Trump's deportation operations. On Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that Ross had been "quietly relocated to another state" and allowed to return to work.

A legal expert flagged a "major problem" in the indictment that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice returned against former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday during an interview on CNN.

Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, discussed the new indictment on CNN's "The Lead" with host Jake Tapper. The three-page indictment alleges two felony charges related to an Instagram post Comey made last year that featured an image of seashells that read "86 47," a phrase that some conservative commentators seemed to think meant that Comey wanted Trump to be killed.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department got yet another humiliation on Tuesday, as their crusade to obtain sensitive identifying information about registered voters in Arizona was rejected by a judge Trump himself appointed.

According to the liberal elections news site Democracy Docket, U.S. District Judge Susan Brnovich issued an order granting Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes' motion to dismiss the DOJ lawsuit, finding no merit to the litigation.