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Mar 2025
42m 53s

Can SCOTUS Control Trump?

CNN
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President Trump rips judges who rule against him and draws a rare rebuke from the chief justice. Can the Supreme Court keep him in check? Plus, Putin makes few concessions in his phone call with Trump. Is negotiating peace in Ukraine harder than Trump expected? And the last person seen with a missing college student now free to leave the Dominican Republic. Why? It may not be so simple. And this. 

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