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Trump suffers two huge court losses in one day as his legal nemesis hails 'landmark day'

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Norman Eisen, the former White House ethics czar who has been coordinating legal challenges against the Trump administration, declared Friday a landmark day for democracy after courts handed him back-to-back wins on two of the most high-profile cases in his portfolio.In a Substack post titled "Contrarians Strike Two Mighty Blows Against Trump," Eisen described the victories as among the biggest in his organization's more than 300 active legal cases and matters.The first came in the Kennedy Center case, where a federal judge blocked the administration's attempt to close the venue for renovations and ordered Donald Trump's name stripped from the building and its official title within two weeks. The court ruled that only Congress has the power to change the name of the national cultural landmark. Eisen helped argue the case alongside Democracy Defenders Action, the Washington Litigation Group, and Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, the lead plaintiff.The second win came in Florida, where Judge Kathleen Williams reopened Trump's IRS lawsuit after Eisen and his partners filed a motion on behalf of 35 bipartisan former federal judges. The judges argued that Trump's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization settlement was a fraud on the court, used to funnel taxpayer money to political allies while shielding Trump, his sons, and his businesses from future prosecution. Williams launched a formal investigation into whether the court had been deceived.Eisen noted that additional courts were also moving against the fund. A judge in the Eastern District of Virginia entered a temporary restraining order blocking the $1.8 billion fund from operating while the case is argued, and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed for similar emergency relief in D.C. federal court."I don't think I have ever had two of my cases as the top two stories on both The New York Times and The Washington Post websites," Eisen wrote in the Substack piece, "but that happened Friday because these two wins were good news for democracy."

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'This is so cringe': GOP lawmaker meets MAGA rage after 'thirsty' post about Trump

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'This is so cringe': GOP lawmaker meets MAGA rage after 'thirsty' post about Trump

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace responded to being snubbed by President Donald Trump by posting a public declaration of loyalty on Saturday, touting a "100% lifetime voting record supporting Trump" — a move that drew immediate ridicule from critics on the left and the right, including some of Trump's most devoted online supporters.Mace, who is running for governor of South Carolina and had been seeking Trump's endorsement, appeared to be auditioning for his support with the post despite Trump already formally endorsing her opponent. Even MAGA world wasn't buying it.Catturd, one of Trump's most prominent social media boosters, called it out directly. "This is so cringe because Trump didn't endorse her," he wrote.George Santos, the former congressman convicted of fraud, was equally dismissive. "This is misleading," Santos wrote. "Mace is not endorsed by President Trump and has been snubbed by most of MAGA due to her insane meltdowns and insanity."Jonah Goldberg, the conservative commentator and co-founder of The Dispatch, skipped the words entirely and responded with a GIF captioned with "so thirsty."Critics outside the MAGA world went further. Libertarian leader Caryn Ann Harlos offered a one-line translation: "She is an empty brain."Anthony Sisk, a business strategist, dug up Mace's history, reminding her that she distanced herself from Trump in the immediate aftermath of January 6, 2021, when she believed his political career was finished. "What'd you do just 2 months after voting Trump in 2020 when you thought his political career was over?" Sisk wrote. "Cut and ran with the establishment. You're not cut out to be Governor."Political commentator David Marcus noted the episode could serve as a meaningful test of Trump's endorsement power, observing that Mace is harder to dismiss as an obstructionist than other Republicans Trump has targeted.Trump has not publicly responded to Mace's loyalty declaration.This is so cringe because Trump didn’t endorse her. 🤮 https://t.co/3NyRijhwOm— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 31, 2026

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MSNOW Host Claims Joe Biden’s Health Was ‘Litigated Exhaustively’ But Trump’s Health is Getting a Pass (VIDEO)

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MSNOW Host Claims Joe Biden’s Health Was ‘Litigated Exhaustively’ But Trump’s Health is Getting a Pass (VIDEO)

MSNOW Host Jonathan Capehart appeared on PBS this weekend and claimed that Joe Biden's health was examined closely by the media and the public, then suggested that Trump is getting a pass on the same issue. The post MSNOW Host Claims Joe Biden’s Health Was ‘Litigated Exhaustively’ But Trump’s Health is Getting a Pass (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Mamdani to skip annual Israel Day parade over pro-Palestinian support

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Mamdani to skip annual Israel Day parade over pro-Palestinian support

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will not attend the city’s annual parade celebrating Israel on Sunday, breaking with a decades-long tradition observed by New York mayors and other elected officials due to his support for Palestinian rights. Mamdani confirmed the decision during a public safety briefing this week, saying he pledged during his mayoral […]

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Trump's Texas Senate Primary Win Is Going To Backfire

While MAGA candidate Ken Paxton's win isn't an assured victory for Democrats, he'll at least embroil the GOP in a nightmare of its own making.

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Trump may have just doomed his own nominees for remainder of term: analysis

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Trump may have just doomed his own nominees for remainder of term: analysis

President Donald Trump’s “pursuit of retribution” has led to the ousting of several GOP lawmakers he’d perceived as inefficiently loyal, but in doing so, may very well have doomed his future nominees for the remainder of his term, health care reporter Joseph Choi argued Sunday in an analysis published in The Hill.Earlier this month, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) was defeated in his GOP primary race by his Trump-backed challenger, Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA). Cassidy was among the few Republican lawmakers to vote to convict the president for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and would go on to call for Trump to drop out of the 2024 race.And, while Trump may have succeeded in helping oust Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican still maintains his position as chair of the influential Senate Health Committee, a position with the power to derail any of Trump's health agency nominees.“The next few months could determine whether [Cassidy’s] legacy is restraining the Trump administration’s more extreme elements or ultimately ushering them in,” Choi wrote.“In the coming months, Cassidy will play a major role in elevating the next round of federal health leaders, presiding over the nominations of former Deputy Surgeon General Erica Schwartz to be the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nicole Saphier to be next U.S. surgeon general and whomever the administration picks to replace former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary.”Cassidy ended up being the deciding vote in confirming Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom he was initially skeptical of but convinced to confirm after receiving assurances that the HHS would adhere to vaccine safety guidelines.Now, with “nothing to lose,” noted Joseph Antos, senior health policy fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute, speaking with The Hill, Cassidy could prove a problem for Trump’s health nominees going forward.

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'Time is up': Ex-prosecutor says Trump's 'past is catching up with him' on classified docs

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'Time is up': Ex-prosecutor says Trump's 'past is catching up with him' on classified docs

Donald Trump may be close to a legal reckoning on the classified documents case, according to a legal expert.Joyce Vance, the former United States attorney who has become one of the most widely read legal analysts of the Trump era, says a key appeals court is signaling it has lost patience with the judge who has spent more than a year blocking the release of the classified documents portion of Jack Smith's special counsel report — and that Trump's strategy of rigging legal proceedings in his favor by eliminating genuine opposition is running out of time."It's starting to look like time is up," Vance wrote in her Civil Discourse Substack on Saturday.At the center of the dispute is Volume II of Smith's report, which covers the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee who has consistently ruled in his favor, blocked the report's release on Inauguration Day and refused for months to act on requests by American Oversight and the Knight First Amendment Institute to intervene and argue for its release. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals previously cited "undue delay" from Cannon and ordered her to rule within 60 days. She ruled against the media organizations, and they appealed.Now the Eleventh Circuit has ordered a full briefing schedule, with all briefs due by July. Vance notes the order was signed by Judge Nancy Abudu, a Biden appointee, and says the court's track record of correcting Cannon's errors gives her reason for optimism.Vance connects the classified documents fight to the IRS slush fund case, arguing both share the same fatal flaw: Trump occupying both sides of the legal dispute, with the Justice Department acting as his ally rather than a genuine adversary. Courts, she argues, are finally forcing him to face real opposition."Trump's past is finally catching up with him," Vance writes.

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Dems concoct 'unusual strategy' to cripple Trump's 'slush fund': 'We're taking it'

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Dems concoct 'unusual strategy' to cripple Trump's 'slush fund': 'We're taking it'

Democratic governors and lawmakers across the nation have devised an "unusual" plan to cripple President Donald Trump’s “anti-weaponization fund” designed to award taxpayer-funded payouts to his supporters – including violent Jan. 6 Capitol rioters – a strategy that would deny recipients a single penny from the fund, The Washington Post reported Sunday.“It's simple: If you're a New Yorker who takes from Trump's illegal January 6th slush fund, NY will tax 100% of it,” said Alex Bores, a New York assemblymember and Democratic Congressional candidate. “If you storm the Capitol and you take from the slush fund, too bad, we’re taking it.”The fund was offered as a settlement to Trump in exchange for him dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a suit he filed over his tax returns leaking in 2019. At $1.8 billion, the fund was established to compensate those who claim to have been unfairly targeted by the Biden administration’s Justice Department (DOJ), including those who have been convicted of assaulting police officers on Jan. 6.While a federal judge on Friday temporarily halted the Trump administration from doling out payments, Democrats across the nation are still mobilizing behind what the Post called the “unusual strategy” en masse.“It’s an action we look forward to taking,” said California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who endorsed the idea to tax payouts from Trump’s fund at a rate of 100%.New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul voiced support for the plan as well, telling reporters last week that she had “no problem with there being consequences for people who accept that money,” the Post reported.The Democratic leader in the Wisconsin state Senate, Dianne Hesselbein, voiced support for the plan, the Post reported, as did Sen. Michael Bennett (D-CO). Trump’s DOJ, however, had a less than favorable impression of the plan.“Instead of flaunting their love of lawfare and taxing constituents into oblivion, blue-state governors should focus on preventing more of their residents from fleeing in droves to free states with lower taxes, less crime, and governments that actually serve the people they represent,” said Natalie Baldassarre, a DOJ spokesperson, in a statement issued to the Post.I just introduced the Anti-Insurrectionist Act in NY. It's simple: If you're a New Yorker who takes from Trump's illegal January 6th slush fund, NY will tax 100% of it. pic.twitter.com/9vg5EKPybZ— Alex Bores (@AlexBores) May 26, 2026

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Today in Supreme Court History: May 31, 1860

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Today in Supreme Court History: May 31, 1860

5/31/1860: Justice Peter Daniel's death. The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 31, 1860 appeared first on Reason.com.

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