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One of President Donald Trump's former business partners made a stunning comparison on Tuesday between the way the Trump administration has handled the Jeffrey Epstein files and another high-profile case of serial sexual abuse.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department released another trove of documents from the FBI's investigation into disgraced financier and convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. The files included emails that placed Trump on Epstein's infamous plane on eight occasions, and other revelations that were politically damaging for the president.

President Donald Trump got a rare and devastating blow at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, as three right-wing justices joined with the three liberals to deny a stay of a lower court ruling that prevents him from federalizing the National Guard to deploy troops to Chicago — and said the administration is unlikely to prevail when the case is litigated on the merits.

The decision triggered an eruption from legal commentators on social media, including an outpouring of approval of the decision to rein in Trump's use of executive and military power over states and cities that protest his agenda.

Judges who have been threatened by fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement are speaking out against the president for fomenting security risks for themselves and their families.

NBC News spoke to multiple judges who have faced threats after ruling against Trump in a case. In a report published on Tuesday, judges appointed by Trump and other presidents stressed that Trump, administration officials, and MAGA influencers have changed the landscape for judges and have made it more dangerous to do their jobs.

Just two hours after reporters flagged what appeared to be a 2019 letter from deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to fellow offender Larry Nassar reflecting on how President Donald Trump shared their liking of young girls, the Justice Department put out a statement proclaiming the letter was almost certainly fake, citing among other things that the handwriting does not resemble any known handwriting for Epstein, and that the letter was postmarked to a date just slightly after Epstein was found dead in his cell.

This statement triggered a wave of reactions from commenters on social media. Some noted that the letter in question was actually already flagged by the Associated Press years earlier based on corroborating documents from the Bureau of Prisons.

The federal government added two additional felony charges against Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, who is accused of murdering National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and wounding Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, according to a new report.

CBS News Justice Correspondent Scott MacFarlane reported on Tuesday that federal prosecutors filed a new criminal indictment against Lakanwal, adding two felonies for transporting and selling firearms internationally. Lakanwal was previously charged with first-degree murder, illegal possession of a firearm, and assault with intent to kill.

Attorney Alan Dershowitz lashed out at Jeffrey Epstein survivor Maria Farmer after news reports said she had been "redeemed" because documents released by the Department of Justice proved she had reported the sex offender years before he was arrested.

During a Tuesday Newsmax interview, Dershowitz began by taking issue with host Greta Van Susteren's description of Farmer.

CBS News' decision to spike a story on its flagship "60 Minutes" about the efforts of President Donald Trump's administration to deport people to the infamous CECOT prison in El Salvador stunned one Democratic analyst.

Cliff Schecter, a political ad man who worked on President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign, wrote in a new essay on Substack on Tuesday that the decision by CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss to cancel the story showed the administration is "lying about something horrific." Weiss said she pulled the segment because it was "not ready" and needed an on-camera appearance by someone in the Trump administration.