The new indictment comes as Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyer and previous deputy attorney general, leads the Justice Department in Pam Bondi’s wake, and is thought to be auditioning for Trump to nominate him as her permanent replacement.

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“There’s no cut in Medicaid,” DHS Sec RFK Jr. yelled numerous times over the past couple days as he testified in front of a handful of different congressional committees. ...

DeSantis announced his candidacy for president long before Trump officially announced he was running for a second term and there was a brief but comedic period of time during which pundits openly speculated whether DeSantis would take the MAGA movement off of Trump’s hands. ...

The committee said it has “adopted a more aggressive and robust approach to allegations of sexual misconduct,” according to the Monday statement.

As the end of the Supreme Court term inches closer, Republicans’ nudging of Justice Samuel Alito toward the exits has become more public. More from @kateriga.bsky.social in tonight's edition of Where Things Stand:

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought has been undermining Congress and its constitutional power of the purse since President Donald Trump came back to office last year.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is making it clear publicly that he believes a weaponized-for-Trump DOJ is the best kind of DOJ.

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The first lady called on Congress to hold public hearings with survivors of Epstein’s abuse — just as her husband’s own compromised Justice Department tries to get America to move on from the Epstein files now that Bondi has been fired.

It’s been an open q whether GOP panel members might still enforce the subpoena after Bondi’s exit. But Comer broke with other GOP members, alongside 4 other Republicans, to join Dems in voting to subpoena Bondi in March, indicating he may still be interested in hearing from her despite her ousting:

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It's not clear what tonight will bring. Trump's latest threats against the "whole civilization" of Iran & Iranian civilian infrastructure have helped grow the divide among the isolationists in Trump's MAGA base who are not backing his actions in Iran, and other, more mainstream Republicans who are.

Trump is, of course, fixated on getting the strait reopened because he is suffering a political beating at home over a war that is bipartisanly unpopular and causing a surge in gas prices ahead of the midterms.

Trump’s interest in tapping the EPA head to replace Bondi may be rooted in more than comradery, if reports about the reason for Bondi’s firing are true — that she wasn’t taking enough successful strides in Trump’s political revenge death march.

The Florida governor is one of a handful of red state leaders who has stepped up to demonstrate his own ability to disenfranchise wide swaths of voters.

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Details on the relationship between DHS and this emerging breed of far-right online influencers are murky. They've formed what appears to be a symbiotic relationship where the influencers get access to situations that result in outrageous, often-violent videos that suck in users ...

The ruling plops the question of the vanity project down in Congress’ lap during a time when GOP lawmakers are struggling to agree on how to act on a large swath of Trump’s priorities: funding DHS, more money for his war in Iran and passing the SAVE America Act, just to name a few.

Carr has hardly been subtle about what he appears to believe his role is in the Trump administration: threatening and sidelining those in the media who broadcast commentary or interview politicians who speak counter to the Trump administration’s agenda.

Homan seemingly pioneered the admin's new more sophisticated and trollish deflection on questions of ICE at the polls. Now, it might be the administration’s new line on the matter.

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ICE agents at airports is another, ominous step toward making ubiquitous in American life the federal law enforcement force that Trump has coopted.

As the Republican Party has tried to move away from the election denial myths that Trump has been living and dying by for the past six years, one of the areas on which it has tried to change its tune is the party’s position on voting by mail.

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This news comes as Noem was fired in the wake of new reporting and a Senate grilling about her decision to spend hundreds of millions of dollars awarding contracts and producing advertisements for DHS that largely featured her, sometimes riding on a horse.

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“What I am briefing here today conveys the intelligence community’s assessment of the threats facing U.S. citizens, our homeland and our interests — not my personal views or opinions,” Gabbard said.

A far-right extremist, Kent appears to represent a growing faction of Trump’s base of supporters who were there with President Trump all the way — until he got the U.S. involved in another war in the Middle East.

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Carr is one agency head who has taken his role in the Trump administration quite seriously, finding innovative new ways to demonstrate his sycophancy.

Trump has been flooding Truth Social in recent days with a series of indecipherable posts that appear to outline his interest in stuffing two anti-trans provisions into the SAVE America Act, a disastrous voter suppression bill.

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The FBI has expanded its investigation into President Trump’s delusion that the 2020 election was stolen from him, with reports that it issued a grand jury subpoena for documents about the election results in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Noem successfully fashioned herself as the face of the most unpopular and dystopian moments of Trump’s second term. Maybe the horseback rides across Mount Rushmore were worth it.

The heavy hand from Trump the day after a primary — the outcome of which many speculated would serve as some sort of indictment on Republicans voters’ appetite for MAGA as a whole — is revealing of perhaps deeper concerns about Texas’ fate now that Talarico is headed for the general election.

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Read @kateriga.bsky.social on SCOTUS gutting the Voting Rights Act and the groups preparing for the day after talkingpointsmemo.com/news/voting-...

Much of Trump’s second term agenda — theatrical crackdowns on Medicaid fraud, violent mass deportation operations, efforts to gain access to the nation’s voter rolls — are all an attempt to lend an air of legitimacy to his broader goal: punishing Dems/Americans who did not vote for him.

A handful of House Republicans (mostly women) have called on Gonzales to resign from his position. Johnson was not one of those lawmakers. More from @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social in tonight's edition of Where Things Stand:

The statement piggybacks on an NPR report, which found that the public database of the files is missing over 50 pages of interviews and notes from conversations with a woman who told the FBI that Trump abused her when she was a minor.

Democratic attorneys general around the nation are creating a legal battle plan for the seemingly inevitable reality that will arrive this fall, when President Trump attempts to make good on his threats to interfere with states’ election administration.

It appears Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is attempting to evade responsibility for the situation that unfolded this week on “The Late Show."

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