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One of President Donald Trump's favorite judges issued a ruling last week that could make Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's contempt proceedings much more difficult to navigate, according to a legal expert.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has been conducting a contempt investigation into Noem concerning an instance from mid-March where DHS failed to turn around a plane carrying detained immigrants to El Salvador's infamous CECOT prison. Boasberg had previously ordered DHS to turn the plan around, and Noem has not yet provided satisfactory answers to the department's decisions that day, according to a CNN report on the case.

Former Trump administration Homeland Security staffer Miles Taylor tore apart the president's recent wave of strikes on ships off the coast of Venezuela on MS NOW, saying that even Trump's own supporters know his stated motive for the attacks is nonsense.

This comes amid a bipartisan investigation in Congress over one particular strike in September, in which military officials apparently fired on survivors who were surrendering and likely hadn't even been heading toward the United States.

More than 100 former civil rights lawyers at the Department of Justice shredded their former employer in a new letter for "largely abandoning its duty to protect civil rights."

In the letter, the lawyers argued that Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for the DOJ's civil rights division, has fundamentally reshaped the division to serve the Trump administration's aims rather than administer justice. The letter was released at a time when the DOJ's civil rights office is pursuing lawsuits against several states for failing to turn over their voter rolls and focus its efforts on prosecuting anti-white discrimination.

Gene Simmons, frontman for the rock band KISS, called out lawmakers on Tuesday during a hearing on a bill that would increase musician pay for songs played on AM/FM radio stations.

Gene Simmons, bassist and vocalist for the 70s rock band KISS, testified on Tuesday in support of The American Music Fairness Act during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. The bill would require radio stations to pay royalties for sound recordings, a loophole that Simmons said has been used to prevent American music legends like Bing Crosby and Elvis Presley from getting paid when their songs are played on the radio.

White House adviser Stephen Miller melted down in a Fox News interview while insisting that descendants of immigrants often failed in society.

"And so what you saw between 1965 and today was the single largest experiment on a society, on a civilization that had ever been conducted in human history," Miller told Fox News host Will Cain on Tuesday. "Not just the 76 million immigrants that were brought in, largely from the third world, but their descendants too."

A former Republican lawmaker cringed during a segment on CNN after she was shown a clip of President Donald Trump grading his economy on Tuesday.

Trump told Politico's podcast, "The Conversation," earlier on Tuesday that his economy gets an "A+++++" for its performance. That's despite public polling showing that about half of Americans see the rising cost of living as their top concern heading into the 2026 midterm.

Fox News host Martha MacCallum challenged Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) to present the Republican health care plan after he blamed Democrats and the Affordable Care Act for rising costs.

During a Tuesday interview, McCormick acknowledged that "health care costs have gone up dramatically," blaming it on former President Barack Obama's signature law.

President Donald Trump made a stunning admission about his pardon of Honduran former President Juan Orlando Hernandez that undercuts his rationale for bombing alleged drug smuggling boats.

The president told Politico’s Dasha Burns in a new interview that he knew "very little about him" before issuing a pardon for his conviction in a U.S. court for drug trafficking, which Trump claimed was "an Obama-Biden type setup," and The New Republic's Greg Sargent said the admission "handed Democrats a new weapon to hound Republicans mercilessly if they fail to exercise oversight over these ongoing crimes."

During a filmed interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns, President Donald Trump became confused when confronted with comments made by the first American pope, Pope Leo XIV.

As part of the 45-minute interview, where the president professed, “I watch everything, yeah. I watch everything. I see a lot of things,” Trump seemed surprised the Chicago-born pope has criticized his administration for the forced roundup of immigrants by ICE on orders from the Department of Homeland Security.

Department of Justice lawyers complained that a recent court ruling has effectively paralyzed their ability to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey.

In a court filing on Tuesday, DOJ attorneys Todd Blanche and Lindsey Halligan asked the court to dissolve a temporary restraining order preventing them from using electronic communications seized from Comey confidante Daniel Richman.

An exchange between Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Donald Trump's Solicitor General D. John Sauer briefly silenced the U.S. Supreme Court chamber Tuesday.

Sauer argued in Trump v. Slaughter – a case that could redefine the limits of presidential power over independent agencies and give the Trump more authority to fire officials – that the Constitution vests full removal authority in the president and that a 90-year precedent insulating officials inside those agencies should be discarded — showing how far the government intended to take the challenge, reported Newsweek.

Officials working for President Donald Trump in the Department of the Treasury have stepped forward to help Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk refute fraud claims made by MAGA influencer Candace Owens.

Sources told CBS News that the Treasury Department took the unusual step of sending a letter to Kirk after Owens made claims about Turning Point USA donations. According to the report, a few donors had requested that their contributions be returned.