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Donald Trump's Justice Department lawyers are reportedly facing potential contempt charges, at the same time as they are offering a "contemptuous response" to a judge.

The Supreme Court recently issued a tepid ruling in a case involving a wrongly deported man, and Trump's Department of Justice has been using the language in that order to justify its failure to so far return the removed individual.

Republican lawmakers who have continued to give in to Donald Trump's demands could be making preparations for a potential rebellion.

Republicans like Chip Roy and Thomas Massie have challenged the President, but things have ultimately gone his way, according to a Washington Post report Saturday.

When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in 2020 and President Donald Trump appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett as a replacement, it was a definite game changer for the U.S. Supreme Court. Ginsburg was a liberal appointee of former President Bill Clinton, while Barrett is considered an "originalist" who was greatly influenced by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Moreover, Barrett doesn't have the libertarian leanings of former Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Ronald Reagan appointee who was right-wing in his judicial philosophy yet voted with Ginsburg and other High Court liberals on key issues involving gay rights and abortion rights. Very much a social conservative, Barrett was part of the 2022 majority decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization — which overturned Roe v. Wade after 49 years.

Donald Trump confidante Rudy Giuliani says he can't get a call back from the White House after he started criticizing the President's top Cabinet officials.

Giuliani "made a dramatic U-turn over President Donald Trump's 'crooked' choices after years of working as his fixer," according to the Daily Mail. It cites Giuliani's recent interview with conservative pundit Eric Bolling.

Donald Trump just offered another "sign of tactical retreat" from his biggest trade plans, according to a FOX Biz senior correspondent Saturday.

Fox Business correspondent Charlie Gasparino earned the ire of MAGA when he recently reported that conservatives were wrong to suggest Trump outsmarted the world with tariffs. Instead, according to Gasparino's reporting, Trump and his closest aides became terrified about impacts on the long-term bond market, which is seen as more stable than stocks.

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle appeared with her old hosting partner Ali Velshi on Saturday morning to weigh in on a major announcement from Donald Trump's administration on Chinese imports.

In a bulletin posted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection late Friday, the administration announced smartphones, computers, and assorted electronics would be exempt from the ruinous 145% percent tariffs imposed on other Chinese products.

Following a week in which Donald Trump has made contradictory remarks about the wide-ranging tariffs he wants to impose, only to adjust them and then back off others, CNN's Abby Phillip noted there are growing concerns about his recent behavior.

Speaking with her panel on "Table ofr Five" on Saturday, Phillip's commentary followed a GOP strategist and member of the Black Americans for Trump Coalition stating this is not the Trump he voted for three times.

During an appearance on CNN's "Table for Five," Black Americans for Trump Coalition member Melik Abdul came clean and admitted he had no answers or excuses for the president's "chaotic week."

Speaking with the panel, he singled out mixed messages from the Trump White House as the tariffs rolled out, that caused the stock market to "tank," before expressing his dismay.

During his long monologue, he professed, "It is what I can only describe as a very chaotic week. Because you're right, a lot of the things that you pointed out, Donald Trump, they were full-throated in this, and this is the thing: it was the certainty that this is going to work."

"And as the market got that little bump and they say, 'See, this is what deal-making is, this is art of the deal.' and then we see a different story," he continued. "And it is the messaging where you have Donald Trump saying one thing. You may have [White House press secretary] Karoline Leavitt saying another thing, you may have [Commerce Secretary Howard] Lutnick saying another thing, you may have [Treasury Secretary Scott] Bessent saying another thing."

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During his first term, President Donald Trump angrily clashed with some of the traditional non-MAGA conservatives he appointed — including the secretary of state (Rex Tillerson), White House chief of Staff (retired Gen. John F. Kelly), national security adviser (John Bolton), and U.S. attorney general (Jeff Sessions). But with his second administration, Trump has avoided such conflicts by surrounding himself with ultra-MAGA Republicans and unquestioning loyalists.

Tillerson, Kelly, Bolton and Sessions gave Trump what they considered constructive criticism; this time, critics say, Trump's appointees are telling him what he wants to hear.

According to a new report from the Washington Post, a senior official in the Social Security Administration was marched out of his office after he confronted one of Elon Musk's outside hires over a change in policy that he deemed illegal.

The report states that "well-regarded" official Greg Pearre raised objections when Scott Coulter, the newly installed chief information officer, detailed his plans to transfer the migrants’ names into a Social Security death database, thereby halting their ability to make a living by working.

According to the report, Pearre told Coulter, "the plan was illegal, cruel and risked declaring the wrong people dead, according to three people familiar with the event," which led to his being escorted out of his office and placed on leave.

The WaPo's Hannah Natanson, Lisa Rein and Meryl Kornfield are reporting, "They walked Pearre out of the building, capping a momentous internal battle over the novel strategy — pushed by Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service and the Department of Homeland Security — to add thousands of immigrants ranging in age from teenagers to octogenarians to the agency’s Death Master File. The dataset is used by government agencies, employers, banks and landlords to check the status of employees, residents, clients and others."

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The report notes that multiple experts agree with Pearre, stating it violates privacy laws as flagrantly falls under falsifying government records.

According to Devin O’Connor of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, "This is an unprecedented step. The administration seems to basically be saying they have the right to essentially declare people equivalent to dead who have not died. That’s a hard concept to believe, but it brings enormous risks and consequences.”

The report adds that a call was made to Coulter, "an investment firm founder named to the top technology job on March 27," on Friday asking for comment and that he hung up on the Post reporter.