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President Donald Trump appears to be employing a radical new strategy to get around federal law that prohibits the use of the military to enforce immigration law, said a prominent immigration rights attorney on Friday.

The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of the military for civilian law enforcement except in very narrow circumstances, which do not apply to Trump's efforts to ramp up expulsion of immigrants from the country. But Trump's apparent end-run around became clear on Friday evening when he dropped a new presidential memorandum directed at the Secretaries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture, and Homeland Security.

A Trump-backing homebuilder from Tennessee joined CNN on Friday evening to discuss how President Donald Trump's draconian new tariff regime, rippling through the stock market, is impacting his industry — and while he broadly tried to downplay it as a serious threat to his own business, he admitted it's been suffering at least to some degree.

"Maybe it's just too soon to tell, but I'm just wondering if any potential customers have expressed any concerns just because of the volatility of the market and the potential impact of the tariffs," said anchor Jake Tapper.

Top Wall Street executives are still reeling from the chaos caused by President Donald Trump's tariffs — and they're warning that we're about to see economic instability of a type that hasn't occurred in living memory, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

"Financiers came into the year excited for President Trump’s tenure, expecting corporate tax cuts and lower regulation to lift stocks, dealmaking and corporate confidence," reported Alexander Saeedy, AnnaMaria Andriotis, and Gina Heeb. "One quarter in, the tone is entirely different and executives are worried about tariffs and their impact, especially after the market gyrations of this month. Some economists are predicting a recession by the second half of 2025."

U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis had a contentious day in court with the Justice Department in dealing with the deportation of a Maryland man.

In the Friday hearing, the DOJ was told to deliver information about a man they admitted they had wrongfully deported. The hearing came after a Thursday night ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld a lower court decision that the DOJ must “facilitate” his return.

Elon Musk took on reports that President Donald Trump’s proposed budget includes massive cuts to NASA’s science funding in a sign that tech billionaire isn’t done taking swipes at the administration's MAGA policies he disagrees with.

Musk’s second split from the administration came after his vocal opposition to the president’s tariff plan – an action that impacts the entrepreneur’s companies and comes amid reports that his role as head of the Department of Government Efficiency could be winding down, Politico said Friday.

A federal immigration judge’s ruling on Friday that allowed the Trump administration to move forward with the deportation of former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was roundly criticized by legal observers stunned by the decision.

The ruling greenlighting the deportation of the 30-year-old legal U.S. resident came at the end of a hearing in Louisiana as Immigration Judge Jamee E. Comans concluded that the government “established by clear and convincing evidence that he is removable,” according to The Associated Press.

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle said she thinks the markets have been topsy-turvy all week because, in the past, the underlying economy was "a disaster." What's happening now, however, is "completely self-made."

Speaking to Nicolle Wallace on Friday, Ruhle said, "It's why the market this week has been up and down and up and down, because investors are hoping and begging and praying that Trump just scratches this thing. Because if he does, we actually have a good economy. But if he doesn't, he has us on a collision course for disaster."

A federal immigration judge on Friday greenlighted the deportation of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, citing concerns that the man arrested last month as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown could pose a national security risk, according to media reports.

The Friday ruling came a month after Khalil’s arrest as Trump administration officials continue to allege that he expressed sympathy to the terrorist group Hamas during protests on the campus.

The Trump administration, pursuing its deeply skeptical approach to climate change, wants to severely cut back the research arm of a government agency that plays a pivotal role in global climate science, US media reported Friday.

The administration plans to ask Congress, which sets the budgets for federal agencies, to cut funding for research labs and offices overseeing climate studies in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to an internal White House document consulted by CNN and the journal Science.

Bill Reinsch, the senior advisor for the economics program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, thinks that President Donald Trump's ongoing trade war will likely cause product shortages.

This week, Trump eased many tariffs on countries around the world, except for China, which still has 125% tariffs being implemented.

A new report from Politico claims members of the State Department are to tattle on each other for engaging in “anti-Christian bias.”

The move is a part of an executive order which was signed in February. It requires “federal agencies to root out 'anti-Christian bias' from the government.”

Attorneys working at a law firm that just cut a deal with President Donald Trump are reportedly in open revolt.

The Bulwark's Sam Stein reports that more than 500 associate attorneys and staff at Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP signed a letter imploring the firm not to take an offer from Trump to do pro bono work on behalf of his administration in exchange for him not revoking security clearances.

The U.S. Department of Justice is warring with U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis after the U.S. Supreme Court intervened in the case involving a man the government admitted they wrongfully deported.

The DOJ was told to issue details by noon on a deported Maryland man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The DOJ response came in nearly an hour late, and it appeared to be issuing a startling response, according to legal analysts.