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A former Trump White House aide who once brokered a plot to seize voting machines, went on a racist Telegram rant, and built a nonprofit around publishing Biden family dirt just struck out at the Supreme Court. On Monday, the justices declined without dissent to hear a petition from Garrett Ziegler — ending his bid to squeeze more protection out of California's anti-SLAPP statute.

The case traces back to a 2023 lawsuit alleging Ziegler had impersonated a Democratic fundraiser to extract information about Hunter Biden's laptop, then published his target's personal contact details — triggering a torrent of harassment. Ziegler responded with an anti-SLAPP motion — a legal tool designed to protect defendants from suits that target free speech activity. He lost most of it.

Iran has reportedly suspended nuclear negotiations with the United States, citing Israel's ongoing military assault on Lebanon — a dramatic diplomatic rupture that arrived just hours after President Donald Trump told critics to "sit back and relax" and let him handle it.

Tehran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported the suspension Monday, saying the Iranian negotiating team was halting "talks and exchanges of texts through mediators." The reason: Israel's continued strikes on Lebanon, which Iran had set as a precondition for any ceasefire deal.

While President Donald Trump has, for now, held back on re-launching major military operations against Iran – and avoided walking into what one expert called "the biggest trap yet" – a new "trap” has emerged that the president appears to be heading directly toward, one that could spark a new era of global "instability," renowned professor Robert Pape warned Monday.

An international security expert and professor at University of Chicago, Pape has written extensively on what he calls the “escalation trap,” a model for how military retaliations and counter-retaliations exponentially reduce options for de-escalation. Trump, Pape has argued, has walked squarely into this trap.

For months, President Donald Trump has urged Congress to fund his administration’s immigration enforcement agencies which have lacked regular appropriations since mid-February, but in recent weeks, a new priority has captured the president’s attention, one that risks jeopardizing his goal of financially supporting his immigration crackdown.

Trump’s latest focus has been his so-called “anti-weaponization fund,” a taxpayer-funded $1.8 billion fund dedicated to awarding payouts to those who’ve claimed to be unfairly targeted by the Biden administration’s Justice Department, including violent and criminally convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioters.

While the public has been focused on the occasional high-profile clash between President Donald Trump and the Supreme Court, the court's conservative supermajority has been quietly using the shadow docket to hand Trump something far more consequential — effective control of the federal government — and legal analysts say that work is now largely complete.

That is the central argument of a new piece by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern in Slate, who say the popular narrative of a principled Chief Justice John Roberts standing up to Trump conceals a far more troubling reality.

President Donald Trump revealed early Monday morning that his efforts to negotiate an end to his deeply unpopular war against Iran were being compromised by “chirping” critics, whom he pleaded with to stop, “sit back and relax.”

“Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

President Donald Trump just received an astounding rebuke from the legal community that reveals how much worse his second administration is compared to his first, according to two experts.

Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian discussed a recent survey that found 94% of judges and lawyers believe the second Trump administration poses a greater threat to the rule of law than the first in a new episode of their podcast "Civil Action." Karnikian argued that the survey results were "astounding" and showed just how much Trump has eroded faith in America's institutions.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell took a subtle dig at President Donald Trump on Sunday as he accepted the John F. Kennedy "Profiles in Courage" award, according to a new report.

Axios reported that Powell said the central bank is under a "stress test" and that the institution's credibility is at stake. Powell's remarks are the first he's made since stepping down as the Federal Reserve Chairman on May 15.

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board called out the Republican Party in a new editorial on Sunday for appearing to be asleep at the wheel as Democrats telegraph how they will wield their power if they win back the House of Representatives in November.

The editors argued that Democrats seem intent on expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices, a move that they warned could reshape the institution into "a second progressive legislature" that would rule in their favor when certain laws can't pass through Congress. However, the Republicans seem to have little interest in stopping them, according to the editorial.

Sen. David McCormick (R-PA) accidentally said the word that the Trump administration would rather him not say during an interview on Fox News, and his attempt to cover it up astonished a political analyst.

McCormick appeared on the Fox News show "America's Newsroom," where he defended Trump's decision to start a war with Iran by arguing that it was "likely" that Iran would attack America during President Donald Trump's second term. During his answer, McCormick nearly described the Trump administration as a "regime," a word that, as liberal political analyst David Pakman noted in a new reaction video, is used to describe authoritarian governments, not democracies.

The "correct" view of President Donald Trump as an incompetent leader is gaining acceptance as his "bread and circuses" routine backfires, according to one author.

Kurt Andersen, co-founder of Spy Magazine, discussed Trump's sliding poll numbers during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" on Sunday with host Joanna Coles, the outlet's chief content officer. Andersen argued that Trump once provided voters with an "entertaining" alternative to America's otherwise drab political scene, but his entertainment value has tanked as the cost-of-living crisis continues to erode household budgets.

A retired federal judge shaded President Donald Trump's attempt to muzzle federal workers by making them sign nondisclosure agreements during an interview on MS NOW's "The Weekend: Primetime."

Last week, the Office of Professional Management published a public notice of its intent to promulgate a rule prohibiting federal workers from publicly disclosing certain information. Shira Scheindlin, a former district judge in the Southern District of New York, told MS NOW's Catherine Rampell that the move serves no "legitimate purpose" other than to intimidate federal workers so that they don't become future whistleblowers.

A federal judge just put President Donald Trump in the "danger zone" after launching an inquiry into the lawsuit that produced the president's nearly $1.8 billion so-called "anti-weaponization" fund last week, a former federal prosecutor warned on Sunday.

Glenn Kirschner, the former deputy U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., said during a new episode of "The Legal Breakdown," a podcast he co-hosts with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen, that Judge Kathleen Williams in the Southern District of Florida deciding to reopen the lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS to see if it constitutes fraud represents a potentially "perilous twist" for the case.