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The Trump administration is flagrantly ignoring a directive from the Supreme Court, a prominent immigration rights attorney warned Thursday afternoon.

The revelation came from a court document that revealed the Trump administration plans to slash the amount of time people have to seek federal relief before being subject to immediate deportation.

The activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents around the Milwaukee County Courthouse continue to spur controversy. Late last week, ICE agents arrested Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a 30-year-old Mexican immigrant accused of misdemeanor battery. Flores-Ruiz appeared in Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan’s court on April 18, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

Now, the FBI is investigating whether Dugan helped an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after that immigrant appeared in her courtroom. Although the immigrant hasn’t been identified, Flores-Ruiz, whose immigration status is unclear, “appears to match the description,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

Florida state Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo is leaving the Democratic Party — and burning bridges on his way out, according to a new report.

Pizzo said the minority party needs saving, but doesn't want him to be the one to do it.

=Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) will run for governor of Alabama rather than seek a second term in the Senate, reported Yellowhammer News on Thursday.

"Back in state while Congress is in recess, Tuberville told a group of donors at a private event on Wednesday night that his mind is officially made up," reported Grayson Everett. "Rather than seeking re-election to the U.S. Senate, he is ready to run his next race in Alabama, and serve the people of the state in Montgomery instead of Washington."

Joe Kasper, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's controversial chief of staff, is expected to leave the Pentagon after coming under fire in recent days.

Initial reports said Kasper would step into another role at the Pentagon. But Politico confirmed on Thursday that he would leave the Department of Defense entirely and return to "government relations and consulting." As a special government employee, he will be limited to advising the Pentagon 130 days per year.

A longtime Republican pollster said Thursday that people who voted for Donald Trump last year are already beginning to waver in their support.

Sarah Longwell has been doing focus groups of 2024 voters of Trump, tracking how attitudes are changing and why. The one thing she said is finally starting to "set in" for those voters is "maybe Donald Trump doesn't know exactly what he's doing."

The Trump administration sidelined its own lawyers Thursday over suspicions of "sabotage," according to a new report.

Justice Department lawyers admitted they accidentally uploaded a private memo detailing their legal strategy in a case against New York City's transportation agencies. On Thursday, those lawyers were sidelined over suspicions of "sabotage," according to The New York Times, which called the move "extraordinary."

A Trump administration official raged against The New York Times for profiling a Jamaican national who was deported in February, calling the profile a "sob story."

"Why does the New York Times continue to peddle sob stories about criminal illegal aliens and ignore their victims?" Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement, per Fox News.

Officials inside U.S. President Donald Trump's White House have reportedly tipped off Wall Street executives about a potentially imminent trade agreement with India, a move that one watchdog group described as further evidence that the administration is "flagrantly enabling insider trading."

Fox Business correspondent Charles Gasparino reported Thursday that unnamed "people inside the Trump White House are alerting Wall Street execs they are nearing an agreement in principle on trade with India." Gasparino cited "senior Wall Street execs" with ties to the Trump White House.

A business reporter warned that Americans are a few weeks away from seeing empty shelves in stores due to President Donald Trump's ongoing trade war with China.

Christine Romans, senior business correspondent for NBC News, provided an update on the market's response to Trump's shift in language with China.

White House health adviser Calley Means suggested "demonic forces" were to blame for chronic childhood diseases.

During an interview this week on Real America's Voice, host Steve Gruber asked Means if President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could make a difference for the nation's children.