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President Donald Trump’s administration has its courtroom tactics to blame for bringing a Supreme Court with a conservative super majority hand-picked by the president to issue a stunning pushback of his signature policy that a longtime columnist said took “courage” to do.

“Thank God for the Supreme Court,” the New Yorker’s Ruth Marcus wrote in an opinion piece published Monday, where she made clear that it has been uncommon for her to heap praise on the high court in recent years. “But, at a time when the legislative branch has been shamefully supine and the public has been alarmingly complacent, the federal courts represent the last best hope—at least, until the midterm elections—of combatting Trump’s outrages against the Constitution.”

In a Truth Social post on Monday, President Donald Trump declared, "Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome."

"We look forward to being there!" he said, excitedly.

Harvard University filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration following weeks of presidential threats to slash billions of dollars in federal funding from the elite institution, The New York Times reported.

The legal challenge, filed in Massachusetts federal court, alleges the government let loose a broad attack as “leverage to gain control of academic decision-making at Harvard,” the Times said, adding that similar funding cuts to other major universities were also referenced in the suit.

President Donald Trump sold the American people a bill of false goods, even from the perspective of people who agree with him politically, editor Michael Tomasky wrote for The New Republic substack — and it's time for his supporters to stop buying what he's selling.

One of the key new examples, he wrote, is Trump saying he'll "take a pass" on the Russian invasion of Ukraine if the two sides can't make a deal. This comes months after he took office a second time and despite his promise he would end the war within 24 hours.

President Donald Trump on Monday weighed in on what he called a "very important issue" creating waves in a small Long Island community after the Massapequa School Board asked the MAGA leader to help them keep their district’s Native American logo.

“I agree with the people in Massapequa, Long Island, who are fighting furiously to keep the Massapequa Chiefs logo on their Teams and School,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “Forcing them to change the name, after all of these years, is ridiculous and, in actuality, an affront to our great Indian population.”

Over the weekend the AARP, formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, was inadvertently linked to a lawsuit against President Donald Trump.

In litigation fighting back against the deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, one case resulted in an order from the U.S. Supreme Court titled A.A.R.P. v. Trump.

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) educated Fox News host Will Cain about President Donald Trump's desire to deport U.S. citizens.

During an interview on Monday, Cain asked Frost why he had traveled to El Salvador to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a mistakenly deported Maryland man.

Former Republican Rep. Allen West of Texas pushed back on Pope Francis' criticism of President Donald Trump by comparing deportations to God expelling Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.

During a Monday Real America's Voice segment about the death of Pope Francis, host Steve Gruber noted that the late pontiff had been critical of Trump and former President Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump's attempt to use Kilmar Ábrego García as the token example of alleged gang members sent to a prison in El Salvador has not worked out well, one writer commented Monday.

Washington Post columnist Philip Bump wrote that in a social media post on Friday, Trump alleged that Ábrego García was an MS-13 gang member, as evidenced by the tattoos on his hand. Holding up a photo, the hand showed a cannabis leaf, a smiley face, a cross, and a skull.

Investors were greeted with more market turmoil Monday as President Donald Trump’s trade war and escalated attacks on Fed Chair Jerome Powell spooked investors even further, according to Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN’s business and politics correspondent.

And the situation has the potential to sink even lower, she warned.

President Donald Trump is trying to "crush" colleges and universities around the country, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof warned Monday on CNN — and the war he's waging against Harvard is about much more than just Harvard.

"I want to talk about this spat between the university and the administration," said anchor Boris Sanchez, noting that both Kristof and his wife have at various points served as members of Harvard's board of overseers. "Why do you think the Trump administration is going after Harvard?"

by Andréa BAMBINO, with Ulysse Bellier in Washington

There was emotion across the United States following the death of Pope Francis, with many mourners contrasting the Argentine pontiff's gentle touch with the harshness of the current US administration.

During a visit to El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) met with Kilmar Ábrego García — the Maryland resident and Salvadoran man who was deported from the United States and is still locked up in a Salvadoran prison. President Donald Trump and his allies are claiming that García is associated with the violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, but García's relatives and defenders are countering that there is no evidence linking him to MS-13 and that he was deported without any type of due process.

Van Hollen, now back in the United States, discussed García's case during a Monday, April 21 appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." And he emphasizes that the implications of the case go way beyond García himself.