Live blog: Trump to rally in Mississippi for GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith

Vice President JD Vance will travel to Montana and Kansas to stump for Republican candidates with just over a week to go before the midterm elections.

President Donald Trump at a rally in Port Huron, Mich., on Sunday. Alex Wong / Getty

A federal judge ruled Monday that former Assistant United States Attorney Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was “unlawfully terminated” and ordered that she be reinstated to her job.

The Justice Department’s abrupt firing of Maurene Comey in July 2025 violated the Constitution’s separation of powers and her Fifth Amendment due process and statutory rights, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman found. The Trump administration’s assertion that it can fire career prosecutors at will would “unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system,” the judge wrote.

House Judiciary Committee Democrats are calling for an independent special counsel to investigate evidence of Trump’s alleged criminal ties to Jeffrey Epstein, according to a new report made public today.

“The bottom line,” they wrote in the report, “There is more than sufficient evidence to launch a criminal investigation.”

A pair of former South Carolina governors, a Democrat and a Republican, issued a joint endorsement today of…

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