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Alina Habba, President Donald Trump's disputed acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, expressed frustration about being labeled a "political hack."

This week, Habba responded to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) after he was hit with an ethics complaint for urging New Jersey judges to oust her as acting U.S. attorney.

President Donald Trump went off on a rant, attacking Washington, D.C., as "out of control" with local "youths." To solve the crime problem, Trump wants to begin charging 14-year-olds as adults.

Taking to his Truth Social platform on Tuesday, Trump said gang members are "randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released."

The Republican president of Utah's Senate managed to change consent laws after a relative was accused of raping a 13-year-old.

Newsweek reported a Salt Lake Tribune piece that Senate President J. Stuart Adams suggested that the Utah Legislature change the law that would change the child rape laws.

President Donald Trump's decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics director over weak jobs report numbers was torn to shreds by The New York Times editorial board on Tuesday.

The decision, which Trump claims with no evidence is because the statistics were somehow rigged or falsified by Democrats to make him look bad, will only ensure that "America will suffer" from the collapse of trust among federal statistics gatherers and the people who use them, the board wrote.

"Entirely unhinged" was how one constitutional law expert described a letter U.S. Sen. John Cornyn sent to the FBI Tuesday, demanding that the top federal law enforcement agency intervene "to locate or arrest potential lawbreakers who have fled" Texas—meaning the Democratic state legislators who left the state this week to prevent Republicans from advancing a congressional map that would likely net the GOP five more U.S. House seats.

Cornyn (R-Texas) didn't mention the Republican Party's redistricting effort, which has been backed by the Trump administration and is aimed at changing district lines that formed districts with Black and Latino majorities, in his letter to FBI Director Kash Patel. Instead, he claimed the dozens of Democratic state lawmakers who left Texas on Sunday were stopping the state House from addressing proposed disaster relief following deadly floods last month.

The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed all of the Justice Department documents involved in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, and subpoenaed 10 people it wants to hear from. But that list has sparked questions about a number of people who are not on that list.

CNN reported that the House Oversight Committee wants to speak to former Attorneys General Merrick Garland, William Barr, Jeff Sessions, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder and Alberto Gonzales; former FBI Director James Comey; former special counsel and FBI Director Robert Mueller; former Secretary of State and first lady Hillary Clinton; and former President Bill Clinton.

President Donald Trump is trying to deport a Russian man who passed the U.S. screening process for asylum. The U.S. government has also taken away his son.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, posted an excerpt of a New York Times report revealing that the man fled to the United States after his wife was locked up for her political views.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced plans to ask a court to determine whether Democrats who fled the state to prevent Republican redistricting efforts had "vacated" their office.

After Democrats denied the Texas House of Representatives a two-thirds quorum for the second day in a row on Tuesday, Paxton released a statement on his intentions to have their seats declared vacant.

Projected to cost around $4.5 trillion over 10 years, President Donald Trump’s "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" was rushed through Congress using what some have dubbed a “budget gimmick,” and now that it’s been signed into law, it’s putting some GOP lawmakers in a tough spot.

Republicans employed what Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) described to Politico on Tuesday as a “budget gimmick” to sell the tax cut extensions included in the megabill as being budget neutral.

Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell raged against Democratic lawmakers Tuesday for what he argued was their “political violence just in the form of speech,” claiming them to be "acting like kids.”

Some Democratic lawmakers have been more outspoken in recent weeks over President Donald Trump’s efforts to consolidate power, be it over the judicial system by appointing a judge who openly encouraged disregarding court orders, or over the legislative branch by clawing back funding already appropriated by Congress.