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President Donald Trump's Justice Department suffered a setback on Monday as a judge denied their initial effort to dismiss Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wrongful deportation lawsuit.

This follows U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis giving a DOJ lawyer a brutal dressing down about how they have handled the case.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass confronted a number of federal agents congregating near the city’s downtown area Monday in an apparent raid, demanding that they disperse immediately.

“They need to leave, and they need to leave right now!” Bass told reporters at the scene. “They need to leave because this is not acceptable! Just wait and see, they will be leaving soon.”

Six major medical organizations on Monday filed a lawsuit against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. alleging he is putting American children at "grave and immediate risk" because of his policy on vaccines.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit—including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, the American Public Health Association, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Massachusetts Public Health Association, and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine—charged that Kennedy earlier this year made a "baseless and uninformed policy decision" when he removed vaccinations against Covid-19 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) official immunization schedule for "healthy" children and pregnant women.

President Donald Trump posted several letters he sent to the leaders of Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, and South Africa, telling them that as of Aug. 1, he will increase the tax on goods coming into the United States from their countries from 25-40%.

"If for any reason you decide to raise your tariffs, then, whatever the number you choose to raise them by, will be added onto the 25% that we charge," he told the Malaysian prime minister in the letter.

An attorney with President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice walked back claims Monday that the First Amendment applies to legal residents, defending the Trump administration’s efforts to arrest and deport legal immigrants for pro-Palestinian speech and advocacy.

Victoria Santora, a trial attorney in the DOJ’s Office of Immigration, is representing the Trump administration in a First Amendment lawsuit over the arrests of five legal immigrant students – including Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil – for their pro-Palestinian advocacy, something Secretary of State Marco Rubio has declared to be a threat to the nation’s foreign policy.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones feared that Donald Trump's presidency could spin out of control over Jeffrey Epstein's missing client list, which he worried could result in Democrats sending him to prison.

On Monday, Jones devoted his three-hour show to covering reports that the Department of Justice had claimed there was no Epstein client list after Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News that she had it on her desk.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was pressed Monday on a new Department of Justice and FBI report concluding there's no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, kept a “client list” of powerful figures for blackmail purposes.

“There was material they did not release because, frankly, it was incredibly graphic and it contained child pornography, which is not something that's appropriate for public consumption, but they committed to an exhaustive investigation, and they provided the results of that,” Leavitt explained when asked about the report. “That's transparency.”

The Justice Department was dodging straight answers when lawyers appeared before Judge Paula Xinis on Monday in the case involving Kilmar Ábrego García, a Maryland man sent to a brutal prison in El Salvador due to "clerical error," ABC News reported.

Xinis hammered the Justice Department during the morning session, pressing lawyers for answers on discrepancies in their timeline.

Former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona took aim at his own party Sunday, criticizing what he described as its undying allegiance to President Donald Trump, whom he described in an op-ed as the GOP’s “North Star.”

“Extreme partisanship has infected both parties, but it plays out differently,” Flake said in an op-ed published in The New York Times.

President Donald Trump unveiled a policy he called the "Gold Card," which allows wealthy foreigners to effectively purchase residency in the United States for $5 million. It's a policy intended to replace the existing EB-5 immigrant investor visa program, which allows foreign entrepreneurs to apply for a U.S. work permit if they either invest $800,000 in the U.S. economy or create at least 10 U.S. jobs.

It's also off to a rocky start, The Washington Post reported Monday. Immigration lawyers are strenuously advising prospective wealthy foreigners that the program is illegal and that they shouldn't apply for it.

President Donald Trump has declared his intention to campaign on the deeply unpopular "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," which one analyst said should be an ominous sign for how he views next year's midterm elections.

Both the president and the domestic policy legislation he pressured Republicans to pass are unpopular with voters, but Salon columnist Heath Digby Parton said his midterm strategy was only risky insofar as next year's elections are free and fair.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt alleged that Democrats had blamed President Donald Trump for the recent deadly flooding in Texas.

During Monday's White House press conference, Leavitt lashed out at Trump's critics.