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BREAKING: Pam Bondi Reportedly to Be Ousted as AG 'Imminently'

Isaac Schorr Apr 2nd, 2026, 10:28 am

Politico's Dasha Burns reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi will "will be out imminently" on Thursday morning following Wednesday evening stories from CNN and The New York Times suggesting that Bondi would likely be leaving her post soon.

"A person close to the White House tells Dasha that when Trump met EPA boss Lee Zeldin on Tuesday to discuss last year's California wildfires, Trump also discussed the potential of tapping him for the AG role (CNN and the NYT last night both named Zeldin as the most likely successor.) A second person familiar with the situation tells Dasha that Bondi will be out imminently," read Thursday's edition of Politico Playbook.

The Times' Tyler Pager had previously reported that "President Trump has discussed firing Attorney General Pam Bondi in recent days as he grows frustrated with her leadership at the Justice Department and her handling of the Epstein files" on Wednesday. "Among his top complaints is Ms. Bondi's handling of the Epstein files, which has become a political liability for Mr. Trump among his supporters. He has also complained about her shortcomings as a communicator and vented about what he sees as the department's lack of aggressiveness in going after his foes, according to people who have spoken to him recently."

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/bre ... mminently/

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Analysts Explain that Amy Coney Barrett Doomed Trump Argument at the Supreme Court
By Daniel Hampton
April 1, 2026

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(Raw Story) It may have lasted only a few minutes, but a withering exchange between Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Trump's own solicitor general likely sealed the fate of the president's bid to gut birthright citizenship, according to a new analysis.

Slate legal analyst Marc Joseph Stern pointed to a single moment during Wednesday's Supreme Court arguments as the turning point that effectively ended Trump's case. And it came from one of his own nominees.

Barrett zeroed in on Solicitor General John Sauer's central argument that children don't receive birthright citizenship if their parents lack "domicile" in the United States. She asked a simple but devastating question about what happens to the children of enslaved people who were forcibly brought to America against their will.

Enslaved people, Barrett noted, hardly had "intent to remain" in a country they were dragged to in chains. Under Sauer's own theory, their children wouldn't qualify for citizenship either — completely obliterating his argument that the entire point of the 14th Amendment was to grant citizenship to formerly enslaved people and their children.

"She made very clear that she viewed the children of slaves through the lens of unlawful immigration," said fellow analyst Evan Bernick. "She thought that the situation of enslaved people’s children was not something that could be settled on the basis of any domicile requirement. Because if we think about domicile as 'presence with intent to remain,' well, enslaved people didn’t intend to remain anywhere! They were taken. They were forced into a place. So domicile can’t be the rule, because then you can’t unproblematically grant citizenship to the children of formerly enslaved people."

Read more here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion ... 71&ei=44

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Trump wants $10B to fund construction and beautification projects in and around Washington DC

Source: The Independent

Saturday 04 April 2026 00:11 EDT

President Donald Trump has suggested the formation of a new $10 billion fund for construction and beautification projects around Washington D.C., a city he has long-since blasted for being dirty and crime-riddled. The Presidential Capital Stewardship Program would be overseen by the National Park Service and would coordinate renovations of parts of the U.S. capital including parks and aging infrastructure.

Trump has already expressed interest in bulldozing certain public spaces, including a golf course, which prompted two avid golfers to launch legal action against his administration. Likewise, his desire to construct a huge triumphal arc has also drawn complaints and a separate lawsuit.

“As the capital of the greatest Nation in the history of the world, Washington, D.C., should showcase beautiful, clean, and safe public spaces,” a White House budget document, proposing the program, states.

“However, many historic park features and public-facing infrastructure throughout the city show signs of decay, years of heavy public use, and inadequate maintenance. Under the President’s leadership, the Administration is committed to making Washington, D.C. – a once-great city – safe, clean, and beautiful again.”

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/wo ... 51737.html

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Trump wants to reinstate Vietnam-era "emergency enlistment measures." Good. Let's start with his 20 y.o. son, Lurch.

The Trump administration’s Selective Service System (SSS), an agency that keeps tabs on draft-age Americans, has proposed doing away with self-registration for enlistment and instead automatically updating its lists with names drawn from other federal databases.

Federal law already requires men between the ages of 18 and 25 to register with the agency in case the president decides to issue a military draft order. SSS expects eligible candidates to self-register within 30 days of their 18th birthday, but otherwise allows men to file late submissions until age 26.

Trump mandated the new rules, which remain under review pending regulatory approval, in December of last year. Trump’s rules suggest that the president is interested in using emergency enlistment measures the U.S. has not otherwise activated since 1973, during the Vietnam War.

Trump, who attended the New York Military Academy, a prestigious military-style boarding school, did not serve in that conflict, or in any other capacity in the U.S. armed forces. In fact, the president avoided the draft on no fewer than five separate occasions—four times using a student deferment, and a fifth time for medical reasons.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/draft-dod ... aft-at-18/

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US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutiona

By Jonathan Stempel
April 10, 2026 5:50 PM EDT * Updated 6 hours ago

April 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday declared unconstitutional a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling, calling it an unnecessary and improper means for ​Congress to exercise its power to tax.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of ‌Appeals in New Orleans ruled in favor of the nonprofit Hobby Distillers Association and four of its 1,300 members. ... They argued that people should be free to distill spirits at home, whether as ​a hobby or for personal consumption including, in one instance, to create ​an apple-pie-vodka recipe.

The ban was part of a law passed during ⁠Reconstruction in July 1868, in part to thwart liquor tax evasion, and subjected violators ​to up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Writing for a three-judge panel, ​Circuit Judge Edith Hollan Jones said the ban actually reduced tax revenue by preventing distilling in the first place, unlike laws that regulated the manufacture and labeling of distilled spirits on which ​the government could collect taxes.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/governmen ... 026-04-10/

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Pentagon says Navy secretary is leaving, the latest departure of a top defense leader

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/22/g-s1-118 ... y-hung-cao

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Supreme Court Curbs Use of Race in Drawing Voting Districts

The US Supreme Court limited the use of the Voting Rights Act to create predominantly Black or Hispanic election districts in a major constitutional ruling that buttresses Republican efforts to keep control of the House in this year’s midterms and beyond.

Voting 6-3 along ideological lines, the justices rejected a Louisiana congressional map that was drawn with a second majority-Black district after a lower court found an earlier map to be discriminatory.

The Supreme Court ruling undercuts what had been the most significant remaining part of the Voting Rights Act, a law passed in 1965 to address rampant discrimination against Black voters. The justices had already significantly weakened the law twice since 2013.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ify%20wall

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Makary’s time atop FDA over, Diamantas named acting commissioner

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/1 ... e-00916014

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