Willkie Farr & Gallagher is committing at least $100 million in pro bono work to causes aligned to “conservative ideals,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday. Willkie is the third major law firm to strike a deal with Trump, following similar pledges by Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. It comes as the president has issued a string of executive orders targeting firms for their ties to Trump’s perceived allies and work on causes he opposes. -snip- ...

Members of President Donald Trump's National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials. The use of Gmail, a far less secure method of communication than the encrypted messaging app Signal, is the latest example of questionable data security practices by top national security officials already under ...

04/01/25 3:33 PM ET House Republicans leaders on Tuesday canceled votes for the rest of the week after a band of GOP lawmakers staged a rebellion on the floor, bringing legislative action to a screeching halt. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) informed lawmakers that the next vote in the House would be Monday evening. The announcement came minutes after nine Republicans joined all Democrats in opposing a procedural rule that would have killed a bipartisan effort to allow proxy voting f ...

Apr 1st, 2025, 12:58 pm MSNBC data guru Steve Kornacki is exiting the cable news network after inking a new deal with NBC News and NBC Sports as parent company Comcast preps a spin-off of its cable networks. Kornacki, a staple of election coverage along with his big board of data, will assume the title of chief data analyst at NBC News and NBC Sports, according to the LA Times. Kornacki has long been a national political correspondent for NBC News, while pulling double duty on MSNBC as well. ...

Published 7:18 p.m. ET April 1, 2025 WASHINGTON – Sen. Cory Booker on Tuesday delivered the longest recorded floor speech in Senate history, breaking the record set by segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957. Booker began speaking on the Senate floor at 7 p.m. Monday evening to protest President Donald Trump's policies. At 7:19 p.m. on Tuesday, Booker broke Thurmond's record of 24 hours and 18 minutes, which he made while speaking against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first major civi ...

(CNN) New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s marathon speech on the Senate floor has stretched overnight into Tuesday morning as he protests actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration, saying that he will keep going “as long as I am physically able.” The Democratic senator has spoken for more than 12 hours, beginning his remarks at 7 p.m. ET Monday evening, and is undertaking this effort at a time when Democratic leaders in Washington are under pressure from their base to do more to stand up to Trump. Booker is a member of the Senate Democratic leadership team.

(Politico) Elon Musk’s days as a senior White House adviser may be coming to an end — along with his government-slashing Department of Government Efficiency. President Donald Trump hinted Monday that his close ally Musk may have to go back to running his companies full time and that the tumultuous mission of DOGE will have been accomplished after firing tens of thousands of government employees. "I think he's amazing but I also think he's got a big company to run and so at some point he's going to be going back,” Trump said of the Tesla CEO. “He wants to. I'd keep him as long as I could keep him.”

(ABC News) A Maryland man with protected legal status was sent to the notorious prison in El Salvador following an "administrative error," a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official admitted in a sworn declaration on Monday. Kilmer Armado Abrego-Garcia who has a U.S. citizen wife and 5-year-old child is currently at CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador. The filing is part of a new lawsuit filed by Abrego-Garcia's attorneys who are requesting that the government of El Salvador return him to the U.S. after being sent there "because of an administrative error."

(NY Intelligencer) How Boasberg rules there, and how the administration responds, will be the first true test of whether the constitutional order that Trump has spent every day of his second term attacking will hold. At a moment when people the nation over are being abducted off the streets or receiving notice that their days here are numbered, without a semblance of even an opportunity to be heard, how Boasberg holds the government to our most basic shared commitments may yet set the tone for the next four years.

(Raw Story) The Washington Post is reporting that President Donald Trump's aides "have drafted a proposal to impose tariffs of around 20 percent on most imports to the United States," which many prominent economists have argued would almost certainly push the United States into a recession. Greg Mankiw, an economics professor at Harvard University and a former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush, said that the tariff proposal being floated by the president indicated a deep-seated ignorance of how economies actually operate.