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Blue states could band together to push back against President Donald Trump's lawlessness, according to a legal expert — even if the move ends up being political theater.

Trump's second presidency has upended political norms and violated constitutional values in unprecedented ways, and attorney and author Thomas Geoghegan published a column for The Guardian making a case for blue states charting a course for themselves.

If officials in the Donald Trump administration get their way, hundreds of thousands of older Americans could soon be left out in the cold as disability payments are curtailed due to eligibility changes.

According to an exclusive report from the Washington Post, a plan coming out of the White House would make a radical change to disability eligibility at age 50 by “eliminating age as a factor entirely or raising the threshold to age 60.”

In unprecedented encounter, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth assembled the entire senior military leadership at the Marine Corps Base Quantico last week, delivering a series of provocative and threatening speeches that revealed a stark departure from traditional military protocol.

But it was just one moment of that gathering that brought home how unsuited President Donald Trump is for the office he holds, wrote former Bill Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal for The Guardian Monday.

Republicans are trying to pin the blame for the government shutdown while simultaneously cheering the temporary pause on its functions, a New York Times analyst warned Monday.

President Donald Trump and other Republicans have been gloating over slashing programs favored by Democrats and unleashing White House budget director Russell Vought to enact cuts laid out in the Project 2025 blueprint he helped devise, and columnist Frank Bruni analyzed the disconnect.

A federal judge accused the Trump administration late Sunday of openly defying the courts with its deployment of National Guard members to Portland, Oregon, which had been blocked on Saturday after being deemed unconstitutional.

Last week, President Donald Trump authorized 200 National Guard members for deployment in Portland, which he described without evidence as being “war-ravaged.” On Saturday, however, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, blocked the deployment, and said that the Trump administration’s actions “risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power.”

Newly appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan is now likely to face an insurmountable obstacle if her case against former FBI Director James Comey reaches a courtroom.

According to a report from ABC News, investigators from the Eastern District of Virginia U.S. attorney’s office interviewed former special counsel John Durham in August seeking dirt on Comey — and he told them in no uncertain terms that he came up with nothing on the former FBI official during his four-year investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 election.

Stephen Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, has publicly disowned him in a resurfaced emotional Facebook post in which she condemned his role as the architect of the Trump administration's hardline immigration policies.

Kasmer, Miller's cousin on his father's side, recalled their childhood together, describing him as an "awkward, funny, needy middle child who loved to chase attention" but was "always the sweetest with the littlest family members." She once saw him as "young, conservative, maybe misguided, but lovable and harmless."

President Donald Trump's attempts to renegotiate America's trade deals have become a "self-destructive tariff folly," according to the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board.

In a new op-ed published on Sunday, the editorial board argued that reports of a $10 billion bailout for America's soybean farmers reveal that Trump's tariff policy is not working as the president says it is. Trump's tariff policy towards China has caused the country to stop buying American soybeans. The move significantly disrupted America's soybean industry because China was one of America's largest soybean customers.

A pair of analysts on Sunday chided House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) attempts to justify the government shutdown during the morning news shows.

Johnson joined CBS's Margaret Brennan on CBS' "Face The Nation" on Sunday to discuss the ongoing government shutdown. During the interview, Johnson repeated a claim that Democrats are trying to provide free health care for illegal immigrants in the continuing resolution to fund the government. He also told people to "go see it for yourself" and provided the alleged page and section of the bill's language he was referencing.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the Federal Communications Commission should look into ABC and NBC's broadcast licenses, citing the coverage he gets on Al Sharpton's show, "PoliticsNation."

"This is just one of the many reasons that the Federal Communications Commission should look into the license of NBC, which shows almost exclusively positive Democrat content," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Likewise, ABC Fake News — About the same thing, 97% negative to Republicans!"

President Donald Trump's legal problems over deploying National Guard troops to various cities got much worse this week, according to one analyst.

A federal judge in Oregon on Saturday issued an order prohibiting the Trump administration from deploying Oregon's National Guard troops to Portland. The order also stated that the Trump administration lawyers failed to prove there is sufficient reason to deploy the troops, as protests against immigration officials have subsided.

President Donald Trump ratcheted up the pressure on Monday's peace negotiations between Israel and Hamas by threatening that "massive bloodshed will follow" if a deal is not struck soon.

"There have been very positive discussions with Hamas, and Countries from all over the World (Arab, Muslim, and everyone else) this weekend, to release the Hostages, end the War in Gaza but, more importantly, finally have long sought PEACE in the Middle East," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday.