Correspondent · Weekly
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A Trump-appointed judge ordered the White House to restore three outlets' press passes. The White House spent Thursday morning not doing that — and the evening admitting Chinese state media to a state dinner while some of those same reporters stood outside.
The Supreme Court blocked the new USPS ballot rules 6-1-2 — but read Kavanaugh's concurrence and it looks less like a win than a scheduling note for 2028.
A Florida grand jury is hauling former intelligence officials in over a decade-old "conspiracy," the prosecutor who lobbied to run the case just quit, and nobody has publicly named the offense.
A federal judge just ordered Trump officials to say who invented the $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund." Nobody wants to raise their hand — and the quieter half of the deal, the part that shields the family's tax returns, is still standing.
The Court called the mail-ballot challenge premature. Four days later the 'premature' thing became a final rule — and everyone had to re-file.