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Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett once again found herself the subject of a full-on MAGA meltdown on Monday as allies of President Donald Trump targeted her for siding with the high court’s liberal justices in a brutal takedown of the Trump appointee.

Barrett was noticeably missing from the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruling that handed Trump a legal victory as it upheld the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants it alleges are gang members.

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board laid into the Trump administration again Monday night as it actively fights against efforts to return a wrongfully deported man from a notoriously brutal Salvadoran prison to the United States.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland was mistakenly sent to a mega-prison last month, and the Trump administration acknowledged his deportation was due to an "administrative error."

If President Donald Trump truly wants U.S. District Judge James Boasberg off the bench, he risks upsetting a pillar of the judicial establishment — particularly the conservative one.

The New York Times reported Monday on the extensive ties between Judge Boasberg and Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was Trump's second appointment to the nation's highest court during his first term. Both men are graduates of Yale University's law school, and both are deeply respected by longtime conservative voices in the legal world. 17 of Boasberg's former clerks have gone on to work for the Supreme Court, and five of those clerks worked for Republican-appointed justices. Boasberg and Kavanaugh were also roommates at 61 Lake Place in New Haven, Connecticut.

As President Donald Trump moves ahead with his plan to impose sweeping tariffs on imported goods from the rest of the world, one typically vocal pro-Trump figure has remained largely absent from the cheerleading — tech billionaire Elon Musk, who, according to The Washington Post, has fruitlessly tried to lobby Trump against his scheme.

Musk, the de facto leader of the Department of Government Efficiency task force, has enthusiastically moved to lay off huge swathes of the civil service and suspend government agencies and programs across the board — but he and his businesses stand to lose billions from a shutdown of world trade.

A key Cabinet member for President Donald Trump has confused the business community and even gotten under the MAGA leader's own skin, according to a report.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has played a key role in shaping Trump's economic policy — including helping craft the president's market-plunging tariff policy. But Lutnick is "frustrating" executives and senior White House officials, who have come away from encounters with Lutnick "exasperated," the Wall Street Journal reported late Monday, citing roughly a dozen people.

President Donald Trump is pursuing a sweeping new economic order and shows no signs of retreating from his aggressive tariff policies, according to a CNBC host. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent—calling it a “reordering” of trade and a “re-levering” of the private sector—says the administration expects thousands of fired federal workers will transition into the manufacturing jobs Trump aims to restore from overseas.

In an interview published by RealClearPolitics over the weekend, Secretary Bessent was asked if he thinks there are enough people in the U.S. workforce to fuel Trump’s goal of dramatically increasing manufacturing in the U.S.

President Donald Trump’s new trade threats targeting China prompted officials in Beijing to hit back with their own cryptic message on Monday – an escalation that CNN’s Erin Burnett demonstrated will have real-world effects on American consumers.

“China punching back, aiming an ominous tweet moments ago at Trump,” Burnett said as she summed up Monday’s fast-moving events, which included the Chinese embassy’s official social media account simply tagging “@realDonaldTrump” in a post.

US President Donald Trump said Monday that he will undergo his "long scheduled Annual Physical Examination" on Friday at a military hospital near Washington.

"I have never felt better, but nevertheless, these things must be done!" he wrote in a post on Truth Social.

President Donald Trump has already perturbed markets and boosted the risk of a recession with his draconian worldwide tariff scheme — but there's another plan from his administration, less noticed by the media, that could also devastate U.S. markets, said Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen, and it concerns expensive new fees on container vessels bringing goods into America.

Specifically, wrote Petersen, "On April 17th the U.S. Trade Representative's office is expected to impose fees of up to $1.5M per port call for ships made in China and for $500k to $1M if the ocean carrier owns a single ship made in China or even has one on order from a Chinese shipyard."

Supporters of President Donald Trump’s hardline deportation policy took a victory lap on Monday following the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants.

The Monday legal win for Trump overturned U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s ruling temporarily blocking administration officials from moving forward with deportations under the wartime act– which an appeals court left untouched last week.

Legal experts unloaded Monday after the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a win in its effort to deport migrants it suspects of being gang members by invoking a controversial 1700s law.

The court said Trump's administration can invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which was part of the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Congress amid heightened tensions with France. The law gives the president wartime powers to detain, relocate, or deport non-citizens from enemy nations.

The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a win Monday afternoon as it allowed his administration to — for now — use a 1700s-era law to deport migrants it alleges are gang members.

The court said Trump's administration can invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which was part of the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Congress amid heightened tensions with France. The law gives the president wartime powers to detain, relocate, or deport non-citizens from enemy nations.

A Republican senator from a key battleground state is increasingly desperate for President Donald Trump to find an exit strategy from his tariff plan.

"Sen. [Thom] Tillis sounding the alarm on tariffs," reported Max Cohen from Punchbowl News. "Says the administration needs to start publicizing 'specific negotiations' with trading partners."