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'Nothing has been done!' 'Intense' inquiry ordered into effort to return deported migrant

A judge ordered an "intense" two-week investigation into the Trump administration's refusal to try to return a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

The Justice Department clashed with U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis in a Tuesday hearing over what the U.S. government acknowledged was an accidental deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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'Want to die on this hill?' CNN gets heated as Republican decries 'political malpractice'

CNN conservative Scott Jennings led a spirited defense of the Trump administration’s refusal to make any efforts to return the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador– before bashing a Democratic effort to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia themselves.

Jennings, during a CNN panel discussion on Tuesday, insisted that Garcia received appropriate due process and that there was “no future where he, as an illegal immigrant with an existing deportation order, finishes out living a happy life in the United States.”

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Harvard law professor warns Trump could be seen as 'weak and impotent' in deportation saga

Laurence Tribe, constitutional law scholar and professor emeritus at Harvard University, thinks Americans understand the seriousness of President Donald Trump's administration defying an order from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Last week, the high court ruled 9-0 that the United States must "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Ábrego García, a Maryland apprentice who came to the United States as a teenager 15 years ago.

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'He'll be taking over': Trump says co-defendant in secret docs case mulling governor bid

President Donald Trump revealed that Walt Nauta, a former co-defendant in a classified documents case, could run to be the next governor of Guam.

At an event with the Navy football team on Tuesday, Trump noted that Nauta and former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had been appointed to the Naval Academy's Board of Visitors.

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'Irreparable harm': Judge rebukes Trump DOJ in clash over wrongly deported dad

The Justice Department clashed with U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis in a Tuesday hearing over what the U.S. government acknowledged was an accidental deportation of a Maryland father.

Kilmar Ábrego García was shipped to a prison in El Salvador despite a judge ruling that García could not be deported there. The U.S. government has claimed that García is an MS-13 gang member, but one legal analyst wrote Tuesday there's reason to question this.

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Trump's order blocked that punished law firm that helped Dominion sue Fox News

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked several portions of President Donald Trump's executive order punishing Susman Godfrey, the law firm that represented the elections equipment company Dominion Voting Systems in their defamation lawsuit against Fox News.

Judge Loren AliKhan slammed the Trump administration's actions from the bench, per MSNBC legal commentator Adam Klasfeld, saying, "Frankly, I think the Framers of our Constitution would see this as a shocking abuse of power."

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'Bad news for Americans': New report flags 'early casualty' of Trump term

Investors are abandoning the dollar, according to Washington Post financial reporter David J. Lynch.

The dollar has lost nearly 10 percent of its value since President Donald Trump's inauguration, the Tuesday report said. About half of that decline came this month as Trump proceeded with his tariff plan.

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Prisoners have fewer rights under Trump than they did in WWII internment camps: report

President Donald Trump's refusal to bring a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador back to the United States — despite a Supreme Court ruling — has raised serious concerns among some analysts, who say that such an unchecked use of the Alien Enemies Act is unprecedented.

In a report published in the New York Times on Tuesday, reporters note that even during World War II, there was "a check" on the government, and individuals who received a hearing under the civilian boards were mostly freed.

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'Are you proud?' GOP lawmaker grilled over 'shameful' Trump actions at heated town hall

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) hosted a town hall in Fort Madison, Iowa, on Tuesday, where voters expressed their frustrations on a variety of topics, including the economy, tariffs, mass federal cuts, and President Donald Trump's deportation policies.

One voter demanded, "We would like to know what you as the people, the Congress, who are supposed to rein in this dictator, what are you going to do about these people who have been sentenced to life imprisonment in a foreign country with no due process? Our government cannot do anything?"

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'How is that not an abuse of power?' Karoline Leavitt grilled over Trump retaliation

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt faced questions over whether President Donald Trump was abusing his power by ordering the Department of Justice to investigate two former Department of Homeland Security officials who defied him.

At a White House event last week, Trump signed executive orders asking the DOJ to investigate former DHS officials Christopher Krebs and Miles Taylor. Both men angered the president during his first term by speaking out against him.

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'I'm here to warn you': National Review writer says Trump power grab 'must be opposed'

Conservaitve National Review columnist Jeffrey Blehar, who has been writing critically of President Donald Trump's trade wars, took a break from that topic on Tuesday to refocus his attention on Trump's defiance of court orders demanding that his administration facilitate the return of Kilmar Ábrego García from El Salvador.

Blehar, who is normally hawkish on the issue of immigration, nonetheless found himself unnerved that Trump has now blown off more than one court order, including an order from the U.S. Supreme Court.

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'I would love to do that': Trump doubles down on sending US citizens to foreign prisons

President Donald Trump doubled down and said he "would love" to send U.S. citizens to foreign prisons even after experts said it could run afoul of the Constitution.

Trump made his latest remarks about his desire to imprison citizens in international facilities on Thursday on Fox News.

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'Not a place to protest': Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to 'throw out' Dems at town hall

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) promised that Democrats protesting her Tuesday town hall event would be "thrown out."

Ahead of her event in Cobb County, Greene took to the X social media platform with a warning for constituents who disagreed with her.

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