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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche delivered a fiery defense of the Justice Department's latest actions at the Federalist Society's annual lawyers' conference, using colorful language to dismiss accusations of weaponizing the justice system.

Blanche began with a provocative statement about the previous administration's Justice Department, declaring, "What happened the past four years within the United States Department of Justice, I'm going to say a Latin term: bats---t crazy" — drawing laughter from the staunchly conservative audience. Politico reported on the speech.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough ripped into Republicans this week for seemingly turning a blind eye to a controversial pardon signed off on by President Donald Trump that critics have labeled as blatant “corruption.”

Last month, Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, a Trump ally and cryptocurrency billionaire who was convicted of having facilitated billions of dollars’ worth of transactions tied to child-sex-abuse material and drug trafficking. The 21st-richest person on earth, Zhao had also helped enrich the Trump family by more than $1 billion.

CNN anchor Abby Phillip pressed former Trump White House lawyer Jim Schultz during a heated panel exchange over inflation Friday night after Schultz argued that Americans are ‘overreacting” to the state of the economy.

“We’ve had inflation – the rate of inflation has been cut virtually in half since the Biden administration versus the Trump administration,” Schlutz said, adding that what is being debated are merely “snapshots in time.”

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to temporarily withhold roughly $4 billion in payments for the federal SNAP food assistance program, despite an earlier court order requiring the money to be distributed.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who handles emergency applications from the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, issued the brief order granting a temporary stay while the appeals court weighs the administration’s challenges, NBC News reported Friday night.

President Donald Trump has approved another controversial pardon for a former New York Police Department (NYPD) officer who his own administration sentenced just months ago.

The New York Times reported Friday that 57-year-old former NYPD officer Michael McMahon has been pardoned after serving roughly a third of his 18-month prison sentence. McMahon was found guilty in 2023 of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the Chinese government (formally the People's Republic of China, or PRC), along with interstate stalking and conspiracy to commit the same. His co-defendants Zhu Yong and Conying Zheng were sentenced in January to 24 months and 16 months, respectively.

A Trump-appointed federal judge dealt another blow to the president on Friday night by formally barring him from deploying National Guard troops in Portland, Oregon, to put down protests at the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut "acknowledged 'violent protests did occur in June,' but law enforcement were able to address them. 'Since that brief span of a few days in June, the protests outside the Portland ICE facility have been predominately peaceful, with only isolated and sporadic instances of relatively low-level violence, largely between protesters and counter-protesters,' the judge wrote in her 106-page order, 'this Court concludes that even giving great deference to the President’s determination, the President did not have a lawful basis to federalize the National Guard.'"

Federal prosecutors in Florida have begun targeting former key intelligence officials as part of a Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, sources told CNN.

Former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are among those expected to receive subpoenas, along with ex-FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, reports say.

President Donald Trump found himself under fire from critics on Friday night after his administration begged the Supreme Court on Friday night to block a ruling forcing him to fully cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in need.

Trump's team filed an emergency request hours after the administration said it would abide by a court ruling to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. That followed a ruling from Rhode Island District Judge John McConnell.

President Donald Trump and his legal team may have made a huge "strategic blunder" in defending the president's "reciprocal tariffs" scheme at the Supreme Court this week, Adam Liptak wrote for The New York Times in an analysis published on Friday — and it could have big implications for the outcome of the case.

Trump imposed the tariffs months ago, bypassing congressional approval and causing enormous chaos in markets, and invoked as his authority the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) — despite the fact that this law doesn't even mention the word "tariffs."

Donald Trump’s approval rating has plunged to just 37 percent – one of the lowest of his presidency – as Democratic victories in the 2025 off-year elections signal growing voter frustration with the president and the GOP, according to political analyst Marina Dunbar.

Dunbar, a Guardian U.S. fellow, wrote Friday that this week’s results reveal more than just local political dynamics.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from forcing federal workers to set their email auto-replies to messages blaming Democrats in Congress for the government shutdown.

From the outset of the shutdown weeks ago, multiple executive branch departments have directed employees who are out of the office due to the shutdown to put partisan political messages in their automatic responses.

President Donald Trump erupted Friday on Truth Social, declaring it a “total disgrace” that next year’s G20 summit will be held in South Africa – and vowing that no U.S. officials will attend the global gathering as long as “human rights abuses” continue there.

“It is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa,” Trump wrote Friday. “Afrikaners (People who are descended from Dutch settlers, and also French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated. No U.S. Government Official will attend as long as these Human Rights abuses continue.”

President Donald Trump appeared to doze during a press conference on Thursday, drawing both mockery and shock from political analysts.

In a conversation about it on Friday, however, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace simply burst into laughter.