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One political expert said that the more anger seen at town halls and from voters, the more pressure is placed on U.S. House and Senate members. She further suggests this might force Republicans to use their power on President Donald Trump.

Lindsey Drath, a former regional finance director for Sen. Mitt Romney's (R-UT) campaign, told MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart that the kind of town halls lawmakers are facing back home could ultimately have an impact.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found probable cause to hold President Donald Trump's administration in contempt of court over officials' rush to deport hundreds of people to El Salvador despite an order telling them not to.

In a 46-page ruling on Wednesday, the judge stopped short of deferring officials for prosecution immediately.

The recent raid by federal agents on two homes owned by a China-born cybersecurity professor has shocked his community and struck fear through fellow academics.

Xiaofeng Wang had been questioned by his employers at Indiana University in December about alleged undisclosed payments from China for a project that also received U.S. federal research grants, and though he hasn't been charged with any crimes, he was fired on the same day as the raids in an apparent violation of the school's own policy, reported The Guardian.

In a heated exchange, CNN anchor Pamela Brown and Congressman Rich McCormack (R-GA) accused each other of trying to 'make a moment' while speaking about the deportation of Maryland man Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

“Are we supposed to blindly trust the government when it alleges gang ties without providing the evidence to back it up? Again no, we don't know. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't but the administration hasn't provided that evidence,” Brown pressed.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon urged President Donald Trump to escalate his trade war by placing a "total embargo" on all trade with China.

Bannon's call for a cessation of trade came after China cut off the supply of rare earth exports, and Trump retaliated by banning the sale of technology needed for artificial intelligence.

The decision, so far, by Donald Trump's administration to ignore the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison to his family has the president on a path for a showdown with the nation's highest court where he may come out on the losing end.

That is the opinion of MSNBC host Joe Scarborough who pointed out the president has had every opportunity to back down and put out the firestorm he has created, but has chosen not to.

Speaking with his panel on Wednesday morning, he compared the controversy to what he called "Signalgate," where Trump administration officials used an unsecure chatroom to discuss an upcoming military attack in Yemen.

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"Just admit you made a mistake. It will be better for you in the long run and they wouldn't admit that they made a mistake," he suggested before adding, "And the White House will tell you that that was the first big bump in the road for them politically."

"It didn't have to happen that way," he advised. "Same thing here: say we made a mistake, alright? They've already said that they can bring him back to the United States, they can, they can go through deportation process and then work with the courts to figure out where to deport him, where he can go safely and that's something, again, they win, he gets deported if he's here illegally and he doesn't get the sort of blow back."

"But this isn't an issue that's going to go away and they need to figure that out," he explained. "And when they figure that out, you know, the things –– well, again, we'll get to it –– but things will get worse for them. "

"As the Wall Street Journal has said, as other constitutional scholars have said, he's alienating his allies on the Supreme Court right now, and they need to quit while they're behind," he concluded.

A new report from the New York Times reveals that many of the big law firms that struck deals with President Donald Trump to avoid having their security clearances stripped are now finding that they're getting more than they bargain for.

Specifically, the Times reports that the firms thought that the tens of millions of dollars worth of pro-bono work they agreed to do for the Trump administration would revolve around relatively uncontroversial issues such as cases involving veterans' benefits.

Vice President J.D. Vance took time out of his busy schedule for a lengthy argument against "due process" for migrants before they are deported.

"Consider that Joe Biden allowed approximately 20 million illegal aliens into our country," Vance wrote on X Tuesday. "To say the administration must observe 'due process' is to beg the question: what process is due is a function of our resources, the public interest, the status of the accused, the proposed punishment, and so many other factors."

CNN's Kate Bolduan pushed back on a Republican congressman's claims about paid protesters showing up to town halls.

GOP lawmakers have faced down angry protesters lashing out over president Donald Trump's agenda and Elon Musk's cuts to the federal workforce, and Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) blamed the media for inciting the confrontations and agreed with Republican leadership that the demonstrations were staged.

As U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders' Fighting Oligarchy Tour continues to draw massive crowds — even in states where people overwhelmingly voted for Republican President Donald Trump—the democratic socialist on Tuesday published a video highlighting the grassroots movement against rule by billionaires like the president and Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk.

"When Donald Trump looks out at this crowd—and they pay attention to this stuff, and Elon Musk does—you are scaring the hell out of them," Sanders (I-Vt.) said in the video posted on social media, which shows highlights from last Saturday's rally in Los Angeles that drew an estimated 36,000 attendees.

As Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) flies to El Salvador in an attempt to ensure Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s release, one New York Times Columnist is drawing parallels to the antebellum (or sale of free Black Americans).

“This is a fundamentally tyrannical assertion of illegitimate power,” penned Jamelle Bouie. “Here, I’m thinking of the fraught legal status of free Black Americans in the antebellum United States. ‘The possibility of being kidnapped and sold into slavery was shared by the entire American free Black community, whether young or old, freeborn or freed slave, Northerner or Southerner,’ explains the historian Carol Wilson in her book Freedom at Risk.”

A Republican voter in Northern Virginia who backed President Donald Trump since 2016 says she's finished with the GOP, the Huffington Post reported.

The story highlighted a number of Trump voters who regretted their votes for a whole host of reasons, from his mismanagement of the pandemic in 2020, to the 2019 Uvalde school shooting in Texas, to one voter who came to see his presidency as an affront to Christian values.