## Trump floats Cruz for Supreme Court

Authored by tpr.org

President Donald Trump is looking down the road at a possible opening on the U.S. Supreme Court, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) could be a potential nominee to the high court.

Speaking Wednesday at a Washington summit promoting the administration’s new “Trump Accounts” initiative for children, Trump called Cruz “a very tough guy, very brilliant guy,” adding: “He’s a brilliant legal mind, he’s a brilliant man.

If I nominate him for the United States Supreme Court, I will get 100% of the vote.”

That has sharpened the incentive for Trump and Senate Republicans to move quickly on any Supreme Court opening that arises before the election.

Cruz, a former Supreme Court clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, has long cultivated credentials that fit the profile of modern nominees: elite legal training, conservative bona fides, and experience arguing before the court as Texas solicitor general.

In 2020, Trump publicly included Cruz on a list of possible Supreme Court picks, though he ultimately chose others for prior openings.

The last sitting U.S. senator appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court was Sen. Harold Hitz Burton (R–Ohio), nominated by President Harry S. Truman and confirmed in September 1945. »

### „They treat us like children.” Ubisoft employees declare open war on management

Authored by gamepressure.com

"Like children under the supervision" of irresponsible management is how Ubisoft employees describe their experiences with the French game publisher ahead of the upcoming strike.

Basically, the idea behind the restructuring at Ubisoft is to help them make games and manage projects more efficiently.

Nevertheless, the actual "international" nature of the strike remains an open question, given the different situations of unions outside France. »

### Don Lemon’s Arrest Is a Five-Alarm Fire Moment

Authored by slate.com

Late Thursday night, former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Even for an administration that has spent a year violating the First Amendment in all kinds of novel ways, the arrest of a prominent journalist is a shock—a five-alarm fire moment.

Already, some of them have ceded their fealty to their most valued constitutional amendment—not the First, but the Second. »

### Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty, federal judge rules

Authored by cnn.com

Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty for allegedly killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, a federal district judge ruled Friday, dealing a blow to US prosecutors who were adamant about pursuing the ultimate sentence.

If convicted of the highest charges in the state case, Mangione could face a sentence of 25 years to life.

Mangione also faces counts related to his arrest in a state case in Pennsylvania that are not death penalty eligible. »

### Epstein files released: Trump mentioned ‘hundreds of times’ in DoJ documents — as it happened

Authored by thetimes.com

President Trump is mentioned hundreds of times in a newly released tranche of three million files from the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

President Trump is mentioned hundreds of times in the new files, according to the DoJ website’s search function.

The Trump administration has released thousands more documents from the Epstein files, a month after the deadline passed for the release of the entire trove. »

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