U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas, whose son was killed by a man targeting her, and retired Judge John Jones III sat down with NBC News as part of the Common Ground initiative.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has long said he would willingly go to Costa Rica. His lawyers sent the new homeland security secretary's comments to the judge handling his deportation case.
John Nichols analyzes this week's primary results in California and elsewhere, and, from the archives, Elmore Leonard talks about where his characters and plots came from.
The episode at the war court alarmed death penalty lawyers, who argued that the judge had a duty to suspend the proceedings to protect the rights of the defendant.
Sen. Ted Lieu (D-CA) played video of Trump sleeping during a meeting, and Sec. Marco Rubio said that Trump has never slept during a meeting, so Lieu played more video and Rubio's lying to Congress.
Sam Forstag's candidacy will test a liberal theory that left-leaning politicians running in Republican strongholds can do better in general elections than moderates have done historically.