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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) hammered President Donald Trump on Saturday citing “new data” that showed unemployment to have reached a four-year high.

“NEW DATA: in November, the unemployment rate rose to the highest level since September 2021,” Warren wrote Saturday in a social media post on X. “That’s Trump’s economy.”

Multiple Supreme Court rulings favorable to Donald Trump, particularly those issued through the "shadow docket," have established legal precedents that could allow a future Democratic president to dismantle U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and remove agents conducting street-level immigration enforcement operations.

In a discussion between Slate legal analysts Mark Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick, Stern highlighted significant implications of recent court decisions. The Supreme Court has permitted Trump to impound congressionally approved funds and redirect them to other purposes. Additionally, the court has affirmed that a sitting president possesses broad authority to remove federal employees without restriction.

The Jeffrey Epstein files have become a significant liability for Donald Trump, prompting him to curtail domestic travel and raising Republican concerns about his impact on the 2026 midterm elections. Political analysts predict substantial Democratic gains, with one forecasting a 70 percent probability that Democrats will recapture the House.

According to the Guardian's David Smith, Trump's mounting troubles suggest he is disengaged from active governance as GOP lawmakers nervously monitor their political futures tied to his declining approval ratings.

An answer given by FBI Director Kash Patel to a Republican senator about who Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking teens and young women to, was resurrected and dismantled on MS NOW on Saturday morning.

As part of a “The Weekend” segment on Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, fill-in host Molly Jong-Fast asked the the producers to run a clip from September where Patel was grilled by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) when the FBI director said there was no evidence of Epstein trafficking to others, which has since been disproved.

A growing number of Republican lawmakers are growing dissatisfied with the ever-increasing power of the executive branch under President Donald Trump and are hoping to reclaim some of Congress’ authority starting next month, The Hill reported Saturday.

“I’ve been concerned for ten years about that,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on the growing power of the executive branch, and the corresponding relinquishing of power by the legislative branch, speaking with The Hill. “I don’t know that it’s getting any better. Seems to be getting worse.”

Donald Trump’s Truth Social outburst on Friday, where he flipped out over reports that there are one million more Jeffrey Epstein documents that the Department of Justice needs to review and release, is another example of the president’s wild mood swings, making it difficult for the White House to take the focus off of him.

That is according to conservative David Drucker, who appeared on MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” and claimed Trump has gone from being sympathetic about others being swept up in the focus on the documentation on the convicted sex trafficker and snarling that he is caught up in it.

Former Department of Justice pardon attorney Liz Oyer is warning that President Donald Trump’s aggressive use of clemency power has already produced dangerous consequences, particularly for defendants involved in the January 6 Capitol riot.

In a guest essay for The New York Times, Oyer said that in the opening months of Trump’s second term, the country has already witnessed “alarming cases of recidivism among the Jan. 6 defendants pardoned on Mr. Trump’s first day in office.”

President Donald Trump bragged this week that his endorsement caused sales to skyrocket on a book — but even the author of that book is calling this out as nonsense, The Daily Beast reported on Friday evening.

"Trump boasted at the White House Christmas reception earlier this month that he had boosted sales for Venom and Valor: A White House Physician Assistant’s Battle for Survival in the Amazon, written by his former medical adviser, Dr. James Jones, by promoting it in a Truth Social post," reported Erkki Forster. Jones himself, who wrote the book about a year ago, was reportedly in the audience during this speech.

Donald Trump is facing rare pressure from members of his own party who want the president to take a harder stance against Russian President Vladimir Putin as he prepares for an expected meeting Sunday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to a report from The New York Times.

Three Republican senators – John Barrasso (R-WY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) – joined five Democrats and one independent in issuing a sharply worded statement Friday describing Putin as a “ruthless murderer” who “has no interest in peace” and “cannot be trusted.”