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JD Vance raises eyebrows with surprising claim during Nixon Library talk: 'So close'

Vice President JD Vance's commentary about former President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, comparing the moment to President Donald Trump, raised eyebrows online after he delivered public comments in Orange County Thursday.

Vance was speaking at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, when he described his thoughts about the nation's 37th president who resigned in 1974 — the only president in history to step down from the job.

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Mike Johnson runs to Trump as MAGA Republican seizes 'control' of Congress: report

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ran to President Donald Trump for help with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) after she hijacked the House and derailed his agenda.

Luna has frozen all floor votes until the Senate passes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — Trump's elections overhaul that has stalled for months. Johnson met with Trump at the White House on Thursday, seeking a way out, according to a Politico report.

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Trump takes shot across the bow as Knicks star casts doubt on White House visit

New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson has not committed yet to visiting President Donald Trump at the White House, according to reports on Thursday.

The NBA champions were invited to visit Capitol Hill, and James Dolan, the team's "Trumpy owner," had accepted the offer — but Brunson said the team still had to talk about it, The Daily Beast reported.

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Sharp dissents from Supreme Court Justices read like 'primal scream' for help: analyst

MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace likened Supreme Court dissents to a "primal scream" after a spate of decisions.

Wallace was highlighting parts of Justice Elena Kagan's dissenting opinion in immigration cases that end legal protections for recipients of temporary protected status.

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MAGA Republican sends internet into a frenzy with rant at town hall: 'The mask is off'

The internet slammed a Minnesota Republican after his remarks about assimilation at a conservative town hall on Thursday.

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) was among several GOP leaders speaking at the event hosted by conservative advocacy group Faith & Freedom Coalition when he described his thoughts about immigration.

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Supreme Court justices 'incandescently angry' at their colleagues' 'gaslighting': expert

A legal expert said on Thursday that a recent spate of decisions published by the Supreme Court made some of the liberal justices "incandescently angry" because the majority opinions read like "gaslighting."

The court published opinions on a range of cases, from one that protects chemical giant Monsanto from lawsuits over cancer-causing chemicals in some of its products to an opinion that ended Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants. In each of the cases, Lithwick argued, the court's majority continued to "twist itself into pretzels" to give the Trump administration what it wanted, according to Dahlia Lithwick, a lawyer and journalist.

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James Comer admits he's spent 'zero amount of minutes' on Trump's Reflecting Pool

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) made clear Thursday that the alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a subject President Donald Trump has fixated on for days, is nowhere on his list of priorities.

Asked whether his committee would hold hearings into the "reflecting pool vandals," Comer said no. "We're going after billions of dollars in fraud," he said, explaining that the panel is focused on Medicare and Medicaid fraud and the Epstein investigation. "There's only so many hearings you can have."

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'Utterly amazing': Trump stuns by running from one of his few successes while in office

President Donald Trump torpedoed his own Republican Party's moment this week by abruptly canceling the signing of a major housing bill that could have boosted the GOP ahead of midterms, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Carl Hulse, New York Times chief Washington correspondent, revealed that the growing ruptures between Trump and Republicans "have crippled the G.O.P. at what should be the peak of its power." Trump instead signaled he would not sign the bill until Republicans passed his elections legislation, the SAVE America Act.

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'Very much an earthquake': Legal analyst astounded as Alito sends shockwaves through US

A Slate legal analyst said Thursday the Supreme Court's conservative majority delivered a seismic blow to multiple areas of American law in a single morning, expanding President Donald Trump's power in the process.

Appearing on a panel Thursday, Mark Joseph Stern, co-host of Slate's Amicus podcast, walked through three 6-3 rulings the court handed down, all authored by Justice Samuel Alito and all splitting along ideological lines.

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Rare conviction in Trump-hyped operation falls apart amid misconduct scandal

One of the only two felony convictions won by federal prosecutors in President Donald Trump's vaunted Chicago deportation operation is now falling apart.

Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez, a 27-year-old Lyons man, pleaded guilty in April to a felony charge after striking a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle during Trump's Operation Midway Blitz last fall. His sentencing was set for July 22.

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Republicans scramble to unsnarl the knot Trump created with housing bill fiasco: report

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was rushing to the White House to "unsnarl the knot" on Thursday, just a day after President Donald Trump canceled signing a bipartisan housing bill and signaled it was "leverage" to pressure Republicans to pass his elections legislation, according to The Washington Post.

Trump told Republican senators they should focus on passing his SAVE America Act, which he has referred to as a priority. He has described the voting measure as "necessary to confront a national emergency," The Post reported.

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'Confirms our worst fears': Expert sounds the alarm over Supreme Court's 'freewheeling'

A Supreme Court watcher sounded the alarm on Thursday after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that the expert described as "freewheeling."

Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer for Slate, argued in a new article that the Supreme Court's decision in Wolford v. Lopez, a gun rights case that arose out of Hawaii, was another "ad hoc nullification of any law that favors human life over the paranoid obsessions of gun enthusiasts."

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Half of Americans think the Trump White House is fibbing about president's health: poll

Americans were not buying the White House's claims about President Donald Trump's health, according to reports on Thursday.

A shocking new Quinnipiac poll revealed a whopping 59 percent of Americans, about 6 in 10 voters, do not think the Trump administration has been transparent about the president's physical or mental health, The Daily Beast reported.

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