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CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins flagged a "notable" response from a Connecticut Democrat, who acknowledged at a televised town hall Thursday night that she regretted voting in favor of the Laken Riley Act.

President Donald Trump signed the act into law in late January, mandating that certain noncitizens be held without bail if they're accused of specific crimes, including theft, burglary, shoplifting, assaulting a police officer, or crimes causing death or serious bodily injury. The law applies even if charges are later dropped and includes people authorized to be in the United States, such as asylum seekers and those with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, or Temporary Protected Status. Minors are not exempt.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) loaded up on stocks in the middle of the market's freefall due to President Donald Trump's imposition of draconian tariffs around the world, CBS News reported on Thursday.

"The Georgia Republican, an avid supporter of the Trump administration's trade policies, not only bought stocks last week as others dumped them in a panic — she scooped up some of the biggest losers," said the report. "Lululemon, Dell Computer, Amazon, the parent of Restoration Hardware and a few others hit hard by President Trump's tariff threats were down 40% on average late last week when she pounced. Data from a required three-page financial holdings document doesn't disclose exactly how much she paid for the stocks, only ranges and dates."

U.S. House passes bill targeting voting by noncitizens, which is already against the law

by Jacob Fischler, Daily Montanan
April 10, 2025

The Supreme Court’s instructions for the government to “facilitate the return” of the Maryland father mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvadoran prison last month sent a clear message of disapproval to the Trump administration, according to former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin.

But it also sparked more legal questions than settled answers for the CNN legal analyst, who agreed that the ruling Thursday evening in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was “a big deal from this Supreme Court.”

A federal judge in Boston has signaled she is likely to block President Donald Trump's plan to deport thousands of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants granted protected status in the United States, reported the Miami Herald on Thursday.

Per the report, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, stated "that her decision will allow the paroled migrants to stay in the United States as they pursue immigration benefits. In effect, it will prevent the Department of Homeland Security from revoking their parole status as part of an administration plan to end the humanitarian program on April 24."

President Donald Trump threatened Mexico wth "escalating consequences," asserting the U.S. ally owes Texas a massive amount of water under a decades-old treaty and is "unfortunately violating their Treaty obligation."

Under the 1944 U.S.-Mexico Water Treaty, Mexico is obligated to deliver water to the United States, specifically Texas. The treaty requires Mexico to provide nearly 1.8 million acre-feet of water every five years from six tributaries that flow into the Rio Grande.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to shed his public image as an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist now that he heads up the Department of Health and Human Services. But in private, he continues to make the same conspiratorial claims he always has, The Atlantic reported on Thursday — and he has even proselytized them to the families of children who died of measles.

One of Kennedy's first major challenges as health secretary was to manage an outbreak of measles in Texas that has sickened hundreds, killing three. Measles, one of the most infectious viruses known to humans, was essentially wiped out as an endemic disease thanks to the MMR vaccine, which Kennedy has baselessly called dangerous.

The Supreme Court on Thursday handed a legal win to the Maryland father who officials have admitted was mistakenly transported to a high-security prison in El Salvador – but the ruling isn’t as clear cut as attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia may have expected.

While the high court’s ruling instructs the Trump administration to “facilitate the release” of Garcia, CNN’s chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid said she was surprised by its complexity, which she admitted left even the network’s seasoned legal team struggling to make sense of it.

Legal experts weighed in Thursday afternoon after the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of a man wrongfully deported to El Salvador, with one expert lamenting the "lack of urgency" in the high court's ruling.

The conservative-leaning high court ruled that a lower court correctly ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to "ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board applauded the House GOP on Thursday for finally managing to cobble together enough unified votes to pass the Senate's budget blueprint for President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on tax cuts, energy, and border security — but warned them that now that's behind them, the hard part of actually writing the legislation itself begins.

This process, which the board has repeatedly covered, saw a contingent of far-right holdout lawmakers opposed to the bill out of suspicion that it didn't do enough to guarantee the spending cuts they want. However, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ultimately won them over with an open invitation to fire him from the speakership if he didn't fulfill his commitments.

President Donald Trump is close to announcing a sweeping new deal with law firms that he has accused of weaponizing the legal process in favor of his political opponents that would shower the president’s MAGA causes with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of legal work.

That’s according to a Thursday report in The New York Times, which revealed that the four or five law firms would each commit to performing $125 million worth of legal services on issues supported by Trump under the deal. Unlike previous deals with some of the nation’s top law firms, the broad new deal is expected to include “several deals together as one collective concession from the industry,” the report added.

The Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to help facilitate the removal of a migrant who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador, despite an immigration judge's 2019 order prohibiting his removal, but kicked the case back to a lower court — and any possible date for return remains an open question.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador on March 15 and has been detained in a notorious Salvadoran megaprison, the Center for Terrorism Confinement. The Trump administration later acknowledged that his removal was due to an "administrative error" and said he is linked to the violent MS-13 street gang. Abrego Garcia has denied he's a member of the gang.

This week, the House passed legislation barring federal district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions.

The New York Times characterized it as an escalating Republican campaign to target judges who have moved to halt some of President Donald Trump's executive orders.