Recession odds up as President’s tariff ‘Liberation Day’ looms: Live updates

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker hit the Senate floor on Monday night, promising to give a marathon speech until he was physically unable, a protest against Donald Trump and Elon Musk creating what he sees as a rule of law “crisis.”

Booker’s allies like Chris Murphy of Connecticut pledged to join him.

Here’s more on why some believe Donald Trump is pushing the U.S. toward a constitutional crisis.

Kid Rock, clad in an extremely patriotic custom suit of some kind, was at the White House on Monday with Donald Trump, where the pair touted an executive order seeking to crack down on ticket scalpers in the live music industry.

The order directs the Federal Trade Commission to enforce existing fair-competition rules against scalpers and calls on federal trade officials to recommend any new legislation that might be needed.

Read the full order here.

The groups involved in the ruling are Headwaters, Barron County Developmental Services, Diversified Services, and Black River Industries. The group are all meant to offer services to people with developmental disabilities, and are open to non-Catholics.

In an earlier ruling, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the groups, which operate under the authority of the Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior weren’t religious enough to warrant tax exemption, NBC News reports.

Graig Graziosi has the story.

The Trump administration is reviewing the $9 billion in funding provided to Harvard University over alleged antisemitism – the latest move in its threat to withhold money to colleges and universities over pro-Palestinian protests.

An judge found that that a group of Venezuelan TPS holders who brought a lawsuit were likely to succeed in their claims that the decision was “unauthorized by law, arbitrary and capricious, and motivated by unconstitutional animus” against Venezuelan nationals.

Here’s more on the background to the orders at issue.

Trump commuted the sentence of Jason Galanis, a former business associate of Hunter Biden who was sentenced to 189 months in prison for his role in a securities fraud scheme.

Galanis, who assisted a Republication investigation into the Biden family, received his commutation on Friday.

It arrived shortly after Trump bestowed an unconditional pardon to Devon Archer, another business partner of Hunter Biden and Galanis.

Elon Musk is pouring money into key elections across the country in support of Republican and conservative candidates, while at the same time complaining about the influence of fellow billionaire George Soros.

A coalition of organizations filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration’s recent executive order on elections, which would require new proof of citizenship rules to vote and limit mail-in ballots.

The suit, filed in District of Columbia federal court, alleges that the Trump administration’s order wrongly claims state powers to dictate the nature of elections.

“Through this unconstitutional action, the President intrudes on the states’ and Congress’s authority to set election rules in an attempt to make it far more difficult for eligible U.S. citizens to exercise their fundamental right to vote,” according to the complaint.

Here’s more on the executive order that touched off the legal challenge.

The firm raised its recession estimate to 35 percent, up from a previous 20 percent prediction, per a research note on Sunday.

The finding is based on “the sharp recent deterioration in household and business confidence, and statements from White House officials indicating greater willingness to tolerate near-term economic weakness in pursuit of their policies,” the Wall Street stalwart wrote.

The prediction comes as a series of sweeping tariffs, including a 25 percent levy on foreign-made cars and reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners, are set to take effect on Wednesday, on what the White House has dubbed “Liberation Day.”

More details in our full story.