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Judges’ Blistering Rebukes to Trump

Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

Government, News, Versant Media, Weekend News, Ali Velshi, News Commentary, Versant, Politics, Ms Now

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ali Velshi is joined by Harvard’s Laurence Tribe, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, Fordham University’s Christina Greer, and Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law president Michael Waldman.

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0:00.0

Good morning. We begin this morning with some breaking news.

0:07.0

At approximately 1.30 a.m. Eastern, a man in his early 20s breached the perimeter at Mar-a-Lago, armed with a shotgun and a gas canister.

0:15.0

This is according to the Palm Beach Sheriff's Department. President Trump was not on site.

0:19.0

Officials say Secret Service and a Palm Beach

0:21.6

Sheriff's officer confronted the individual and opened fire. One individual was shot and killed on the

0:27.4

scene. There is not yet public. The motive is not yet public. It remains unknown. No Secret Service

0:33.4

or Palm Beach law enforcement were injured during the incident. The FBI is leading the ongoing

0:37.8

investigation into what happened there, assisted by the Sheriff's Department and Secret Service.

0:42.2

We'll keep an eye on this developing story, and we'll bring you the latest details as we get

0:46.6

them. All right. A major loss for Donald Trump at the Supreme Court in the last 48 hours is good

0:52.2

news for democracy, but the bulwark that the

0:54.4

judiciary is presenting in the face of Donald Trump's threats has been going on since the

0:58.3

beginning of this administration, and it continues even in the face of increasingly threatening

1:02.8

rhetoric against judges by the Trump administration. Take one of the most prominent examples,

1:07.9

the D.C. District Court judge James Bosberg, who last week issued a

1:12.2

directive ordering the Trump administration to facilitate the return of any of the Venezuelan

1:17.4

migrants who are now in third countries as a result of being unlawfully deported last March.

1:24.7

If a migrant is sent to a so-called third country, it means they were sent to a

1:27.7

country they were not living in prior to coming to the United States, nor are they a citizen

1:31.8

or a national of that country. Judge Bosberg also ruled that the government must permit other

1:37.2

migrants to file their habeas petitions from abroad, which allows detained individuals, including

1:42.3

inmates and immigrants, to challenge the lawfulness of their confinement.

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