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President Donald Trump got yet another body blow to his trade agenda on Thursday, as a pair of federal judges ruled his 10 percent global tariff illegal.

"In a split ruling, the Court of International Trade found that Mr. Trump had wrongly invoked a decades-old trade law when he applied those duties in February, almost immediately after his last set of punishing tariffs was struck down by the Supreme Court," reported The New York Times.

Federal judges in Rhode Island have appointed a special counsel to investigate a Justice Department lawyer, local U.S. Attorney civil division head Kevin Bolan, for lying to, and subsequently about, a judge in that district.

This follows extensive reporting that the administration withheld critical information about a potentially dangerous immigration detainee, to trick that judge into releasing him from custody — all so the Trump administration could attack the judge for it.

A Catholic cardinal who appears frequently on Fox News condemned President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on Pope Leo.

After Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the pope this week, Cardinal Timothy Dolan spoke out against the U.S. president's claim that the Catholic leader was "weak on crime" because he opposed wars like the conflict in Iran.

Former Trumpworld attorney Lin Wood's bizarre rantings were revealed in newly-released transcripts of grand jury testimony for President Donald Trump's criminal election racketeering case in Georgia.

Wood, who gave up his law license in the face of disbarment threats after his own role in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has engaged in behavior that has even alienated most of Trump's other allies. He has unsuccessfully sued fellow lawyers for being "Deep State extortionists," called COVID-19 distancing measures a "Satanic ritual," and more recently claimed the late right-wing youth activist Charlie Kirk was a covert operative against Trump.

President Donald Trump may have thought he had sufficiently purged the Indiana state senators who stood up to him on his gerrymandering plan — but it may not be so simple.

After a majority of GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber refused to pass his plan to redraw the state's congressional districts to delete two Democratic seats, Trump endorsed seven primary challengers to knock off lawmakers who said no, and six of them won their races, which in theory ought to be just enough seats to pass the map if it's debated again next session — assuming all of those six go on to win the general election against Democratic opponents, which itself isn't a guarantee.

A massive dump of more than five dozen transcripts for grand jury testimony in the Georgia criminal case against President Donald Trump was revealed to the public on Thursday for the first time.

The release was announced by Anna Bower of Lawfare in a post to X.

The Tennessee state Senate Sergeant at Arms forcibly pulled a banner from the hands of Sen. Charlane Oliver (D) during a debate on redistricting.

As the body was considering new maps that would erase the state's only majority-Black district, Oliver held up a banner that said: "No Jim Crow 2 Stop the Steal."