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A Republican told CNN viewers Friday evening that criticism among big-name conservative voices is "meaningful in the world of normal Republicans" — but chided them for "glossing over" President Donald Trump's move to direct the Justice Department to act on political retribution.

Conservative Margaret Hoover joined Erin Burnett's "OutFront" to discuss comments made this week by Kimberley Ann Strassel, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, and Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who wrote a book criticizing the Russia investigation.

Congressional lawmakers just gave a "stark" indication they believe the federal government is careening toward a shutdown, according to a new report.

Axios reported Friday evening that several congressional trips that were scheduled for next week have since been canceled due to the looming shutdown at midnight Sept. 30. Science, Space and Technology Committee members planned to visit New Mexico's Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, two sources told the outlet.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) hit back in a Friday statement after an Arizona Republican state lawmaker called for her to be executed.

State Rep. John Gillette, who represents Kingman, made the post in response to an excerpt from Jayapal's "Resistance Lab" series, according to the Arizona Mirror, in which she said people opposed to the Trump administration should be "strike ready" and "street ready" to protest.

A liberal Supreme Court justice tore into her conservative colleagues' latest decision on Friday afternoon after the high court delivered a significant win to President Donald Trump, allowing his administration to continue freezing nearly $4 billion in foreign aid funding that Congress had allocated.

Justice Elena Kagan issued a scathing dissent in the Supreme Court case Department of State v. Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, noting the emergency application raised "novel issues fundamental to the relationship between the President and Congress."

President Donald Trump earned swift mockery on social media after calling on the government to "declassify" files on Amelia Earhart's disappearance, with many requesting that he instead turn his attention to the still-unreleased Jeffrey Epstein files.

Trump Friday posted the following on his social platform, Truth Social:

Chief Justice John Roberts killed another injunction that would have paused some of President Donald Trump's decisions from taking effect before they made their way through the courts. Legal analysts say that in the most recent case, it's an example of the Supreme Court killing Congress's constitutional power.

The stay in the case, State Department v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, was decided along partisan lines, with the six justices nominated by Republican presidents. Nearly $5 billion in foreign aid was already passed by in its 2025 budget during the 2024 Congress.

Veteran and activist Charlotte Clymer gave a thorough smackdown to New York State Conservative Party leader Jerry Kassar on X, after the latter tried to lecture her about U.S. military academy honor codes.

The controversy stems from an incident this week in which the Trump administration illegally leaked records from New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill's time in the Naval Academy. That data revealed that Sherrill, currently running for governor in a closely-watched race against Trump acolyte Jack Ciattarelli, was prohibited from walking at commencement because she failed to turn in classmates involved in a widespread cheating scandal — though she herself was not implicated in the cheating and went on to serve for nine years, attaining the rank of lieutenant.

Grand jury transcripts have been made available from the Justice Department's case against former FBI Director James Comey, and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted that just 60% of grand jurors in Virginia agreed to indict him — a far cry from the unanimous number they'll need to secure a conviction.

Of the 23 people on the grand jury, just 14 agreed to indict. Twelve were needed to proceed with the case.

The Supreme Court once again punted on a case challenging President Donald Trump's ability to unilaterally defy Congress, in a move that at least for now grants him even more power — and further complicates the prospects of an imminent government shutdown.

The Supreme Court case State Department v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition was decided along partisan lines, with the six justices nominated by Republican presidents voting to block a lower court’s ruling that would have forced the Trump administration to spend all $10.5 billion in foreign aid before the money expired at the end of the month. The three justices appointed by Democratic presidents dissented.

President Donald Trump's hand-picked prosecutors are being tasked with locking up his political opponents in a full-bore retribution spree — but it's off to a shaky start because those prosecutors are "unqualified goobers" who have no idea what they're doing, analyst Liz Dye said in a blistering video for the popular YouTube law analysis channel Legal Eagle.

"The Trump political revenge tour is now in full swing. It's like the Taylor Swift Eras Tour, but with a little more makeup and a whole lot more destruction of the rule of law," Dye began.