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'Bad for thee but not for me': Erin Burnett torches Trump with his own mail ballot words

CNN's Erin Burnett rocked President Donald Trump's past claims about mail-in voting in a devastating supercut on Monday.

The Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling on Monday blocking a lower court's injunction that prohibited the Department of Homeland Security from creating its own voter roll. Experts sounded the alarm after the 6-3 ruling because it could throw the midterm elections, just 10 weeks away, into chaos.

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Trump's big Supreme Court voting victory could come crashing down by morning: expert

President Donald Trump scored a win at the Supreme Court on Monday as it dismissed a block on his executive order to put new restrictions on mail-in voting. But it could be very short-lived.

As Georgetown Law professor Steve Vladeck explained in a lengthy analysis, the ruling doesn't actually let Trump's plan take effect immediately — and another ruling is likely to come down as soon as tomorrow morning that renders it moot.

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Experts sound alarm after Supreme Court hands Trump 'sweeping seizure of election power'

Legal experts raised chilling questions about the Supreme Court's latest ruling, which gave President Donald Trump's administration a temporary win in its crusade to restrict mail-in ballots.

On Monday, the court lifted a lower court's injunction that prevented Trump's mail-in ballot executive order from being implemented. The order required the Postal Service to list voters who use mail-in ballots and told the Department of Homeland Security to create its own voter roll. The order is part of Trump's long-standing attacks against mail-in voting, which he has described as "fraud" despite having voted by mail in multiple recent Florida elections.

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Maggie Haberman flags the 'tepid' tell in Mike Johnson's response to Kushner meeting

A veteran New York Times reporter spotted a revealing detail in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s response to a news-making bipartisan meeting: his reluctance to anger the president or his inner circle.

Maggie Haberman, who has covered Trump extensively, made the observation Monday on CNN while discussing Johnson’s reaction to Jared Kushner’s private meeting with House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries.

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'Reeks of pay-to-play': Legal expert horrified by Trump strong-arming his own DOJ

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann was aghast over new reporting that President Donald Trump intervened directly to broker a sweetheart settlement for the Live Nation concert monopoly case.

Live Nation's anticompetitive practices, partly carried out through its subsidiary Ticketmaster, have unfairly cost millions of people extra to get tickets to live venues, and even some of Trump's own allies, like Kid Rock, have condemned the settlement as a disaster. The new reporting reveals the breakthrough happened when Live Nation retained a law firm Trump himself has used to get out of many legal snafus.

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'Strongly reconsider this': GOP strategist breaks ranks after bombshell mail-vote order

A GOP strategist broke ranks on Monday after the Supreme Court handed down a bombshell ruling on President Donald Trump's mail-in ballot executive order.

The Supreme Court lifted a lower court's injunction preventing the executive order from going into effect on procedural grounds. The narrow order is likely to cause chaos ahead of the midterm elections, which are about 10 weeks away, according to some experts.

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Todd Blanche abruptly retreats on Epstein as latest hoodwink ends in judge's threat

Attorney General Todd Blanche abandoned his months-long claim of compliance with an order regarding the Epstein files one day before a frustrated judge's deadline and appealed the order instead.

The notice of appeal, filed Sunday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, acknowledged that the order requiring Epstein files to be handed over to the court may not even be appealable. Senior U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan had given Blanche until August 25 to hand over Epstein-related documents.

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Trump's pardon czar warns of 'scammers' — and points at an RFK Jr. ally

A feud has erupted between two prominent MAGA figures over allegations that individuals seeking presidential pardons from Donald Trump are being charged for access to the clemency process.

The war of words ratcheted up Monday after Trump pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson warned of “scammers” falsely claiming to represent her or her office, according to an exclusive report from The Daily Beast.

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‘Blatantly corrupt’: Critics snap after Supreme Court hands Trump mail-vote win

Critics erupted Monday after the Supreme Court cleared the way for President Donald Trump to move forward with an executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections.

“This court is blatantly corrupt. It’s honestly laughable,” political scientist and author Conor J. Kelly wrote on X minutes after the ruling’s release.

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Outrage after 'punk' Pete Hegseth drops slur in military speech: 'So pathetic'

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparked outrage on Monday after he used a slur in a speech about military preparedness.

Hegseth spoke to a crowd at Oshkosh Corporation in Wisconsin as part of his "Arsenal of Freedom" tour, billed as a way to highlight ongoing efforts to strengthen America's manufacturing base to support military operations. During the speech, Hegseth made one remark that caught the ears of several political analysts.

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Blistering dissent warns Supreme Court just handed Trump a 'chaos' plan

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson lost patience with her colleagues who moved on Monday to lift restrictions on President Donald Trump's executive order to restrict mail-in voting.

The order directs the U.S. Postal Service to create new rules that would prevent the delivery of mail-in ballots in states that don't turn over invasive information about their voter rolls to the federal government. Experts have warned that a system like this, implemented just weeks before early voting begins in the midterm elections, could trigger widespread chaos.

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Supreme Court's earthquake ruling hands Trump a key win ahead of midterms

The Supreme Court caused an earthquake on Monday after it sided with President Donald Trump's order to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterms, according to reports.

The court's decision to pause a temporary injunction leaves open the possibility for lower courts to challenge Trump's executive order on mail-in ballots, which places significant restrictions on when the ballots can be used. The order also required the Postal Service to create its own database of voters who vote by mail, the legality of which is still up in the air, according to the Supreme Court.

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'Not what we want!' Farmer torches Trump over 'raw deal' that puts 'American farmers last'

President Donald Trump's new plan to import hundreds of thousands of tons of beef will spell nothing but disaster, said John Boyd Jr., a cattle and soybean farmer who heads up the National Black Farmers Association, on MS NOW Monday.

"I believe that this is a raw deal," Boyd told anchor Katy Tur, noting that Trump "keeps making the announcement that he loves farmers, he loves cattlemen, and then undermines us with 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef that we don't even know where it's coming from," Boyd noted that there was a significant recall of Argentinian beef imports in the United States.

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