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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to end, for now, legal protections for more than 500,000 Haitian, Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants with a ruling that liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted in a dissent as deeply harmful.

The decision puts on hold a ruling from U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, who in April issued a stay on the Trump administration's move to end a humanitarian program extended to this group under former U.S. President Joe Biden. The ruling means the immigrants are at risk of being deported under President Donald Trump's mass deportation effort, even as the core legal issues in the case continue to play out in lower courts.

Less than 24 hours after billionaire Elon Musk did his exit interview with Donald Trump in televised Oval Office appearance, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) had a few things to say during an appearance on MSNBC.

Speaking with the co-hosts of "The Weekend," the popular Texas Democrat began by bidding the highly controversial Musk goodbye by laughing and joking, "Hallelujah is what I've got to say. Is it Sunday? Let us all give thanks to the good lord above."

She then got down the particulars of Musk's tenure after he foisted the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on the U.S. voters despite never being elected to office himself.

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"Let me tell you something, he is gone but the musk is still going to linger in the air," she quipped. "We know, as you went through in your intro, that there are so many people that have been impacted by these ridiculous and not thought-out cuts and it's not just the federal workers. It's those constituents of ours, our citizens, that are being impacted the hardest by these cuts."

"And so here it is: you basically let this guy run wild and, honestly I feel like all of the cuts to federal employees there was nothing more than a distraction for the things that he really wanted to do, which is to make sure that there was no oversight over his companies, the companies that were under investigation this was to kind of keep us busy and distracted," she added.

Donald Trump's decision to use his Truth Social account to launch a war on the Federalist Society after all they have done for him by helping to pack the courts with hardcore right-wing judges has more than a few conservatives wondering what he could be thinking.

According to a report from Politico's Hailey Fuchs and Daniel Barnes, Trump's broadside –– which Politico's Josh Gerstein called "incomprehensible" –– has, to the surprise of no one, led the president's MAGA fans to join his jihad against the venerable conservative organization.

During his first few months in office, President Donald Trump has been establishing a framework for deporting undocumented immigrants en masse. It’s something he has previously vowed will be “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country.”

Part of that operation includes what’s known as the federal 287(g) program. Established in 1996, it allows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose work is normally carried out by federal officials, to train state and local authorities to function as federal immigration officers.

Two setbacks suffered by Donald Trump this past week –– one legal, the other reputational –– has put him in a corner where he may have to double down on his tariff war to save face despite the possibility it could further s cripple his second term.

That is the opinion of one ally of the president who doesn't work in the White House and believes the present feels mortally wounded.

Donald Trump's knee-jerk reaction to being on the losing end of a tariff ruling in a case reviewed by the U.S. Court of International Trade led to a Truth Social tirade that led one legal expert to call it "incomprehensible."

On Friday afternoon, the editorial board of the conservative Wall Street Journal piled on, and noted that the president seemed to be "sending a message" to a wide swath of conservative judges including two on the Supreme Court.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) sounded the alarm in a new interview with Rolling Stone's Lorena O'Neil published Friday about how, in her view, the Trump presidency has become a vessel for the will of tech billionaires, who are behind some of the most destructive policy initiatives against working people.

This comes at a moment when one of the most visible of these billionaires, Elon Musk, is formally exiting the White House — though perhaps not going away entirely — after installing his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force to help Trump purge the civil service.

A White House report warning of a national health crisis is drawing fresh scrutiny after a Washington Post analysis revealed signs of not only artificial intelligence but also the apparent use of “invented studies” in the report’s citations.

The “Make America Health Again” report, released this week by the Trump administration, claims to highlight the causes of declining life expectancy among Americans. But the Post reviewed more than 500 citations and found several that appeared to be invented, with AI experts confirming “the use of artificial intelligence in the initial version of the report provided to journalists.”

The Trump administration on Thursday published a sweeping list of more than 100 cities and counties it claims are sanctuary jurisdictions – but by Friday afternoon, the list was already drawing mockery, denials and corrections from even MAGA-supporting counties and cities.

That’s according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal, which detailed Trump’s pledge to pull federal funding and pursue legal action against cities not complying with federal immigration laws. The list released by the Department of Homeland Security names localities in more than 30 states – including Democratic strongholds like New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

President Donald Trump is open to giving a pardon to rap star Sean "Diddy" Combs — but admitted to not following the case closely when asked by reporters, The Daily Beast said on Friday.

Diddy is facing federal charges of racketeering and sex trafficking, following decades of rumors of illicit activity surrounding him. Prosecutors have shown damning evidence to jurors, including a video that appears to show him viciously beating his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, who alleges he used blackmail and violence to force her to participate in drugged-up orgies.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk wants to have his cake and eat it too, said MSNBC's Ari Melber on Friday evening — enjoying the power his relationship with President Donald Trump gives him, while at the same time not taking any responsibility for Trump policies he doesn't agree with or that are unsuccessful.

This comes as Musk formally departs from a full-time role as an adviser to the White House — but even then, Trump himself won't commit to Musk actually being gone, saying he will continue to advise in some capacity.

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace didn’t mince words Friday as she unpacked explosive new reporting surrounding Elon Musk’s drug use during his time on the campaign trail as one of President Donald Trump’s most visible supporters.

“This next story could explain some things,” Wallace told viewers during her show “Deadline: White House,” as she reacted to a bombshell New York Times report that revealed Musk used ketamine “near daily” while campaigning with Trump in 2024, allegedly mixing it with ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms and other drugs.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) undermined ethics investigations into lawmakers by crippling a key watchdog for months, The New York Times reported on Friday afternoon.

The result was that for three months, some 4,000 complaints sent to the Office of Congressional Conduct went unanswered and uninvestigated.