All the major broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — broke in Friday morning with special reports on the Supreme Court’s 6-to-3 ruling declaring most of President Trump’s landmark tariffs unconstitutional. Unsurprisingly, ABC was almost ebullient in touting the ruling as “devastating,” “huge,” and “monumental” in hampering Trump’s presidency.
In the aftermath of DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin announcing her resignation, MS NOW reporter Jacob Soboroff accused her of spreading misinformation when, in fact, he was the one misinforming his viewers.
Antonia Hylton filled in for Chris Hayes on Monday's All In show. She began by asking Soboroff what it has been like having to interact with McLaughlin to get information about immigration issues. He began by taking a shot at ex-DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen from the first Donald Trump administration: "It's been a bit of deja vu quite frankly, and I think that Tricia McLaughlin comes from a long line, I think it's fair to say, of Trump administration officials dealing with immigration policy that have been less than forthright with the truth."
In another tease for CNN’s new documentary on The Rise of Christian Nationalism, Pamela Brown continued her promotion of hour-long “special report” by going after Christian schools’ methods of teaching and punishment amid a recent rise of shooting attacks against Christian schools on Thursday’s CNN News Central.
In a 6-3 Friday, the Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s imposition of reciprocal tariffs, which the president had successfully used to raise much-needed government revenue and level the playing field with countries charging exorbitant tariffs on U.S. goods.
The decision upheld rulings by lower courts declaring Trump’s use of a presidential emergency power provision to unilaterally impose the tariffs unconstitutional.
The ruling invalidating Trump’s tariffs immediately sparked extravagant conjecture and commentary about the implications of the decision.
“It is important to be clear about what the Supreme Court’s decision on IEEPA does — and does not — do,” Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) wrote in a social media post setting the record straight about the ramifications of the decision.
The ruling does not invalidate all of Trump’s tariffs – just those imposed by his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Rep. Meuser explains:
The Trump Administration is purchasing $263 million of domestically-produced food products, including $75 million of butter, to distribute to the nation’s food banks and nutrition assistance programs, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Thursday.
It was a good week for NewsBusters issues. In the new eruption of leftist protest over anyone demanding Stephen Colbert provide "Equal Time" to their incessant tilt, we point out again that all the comedy shows tilt dramatically to the left, just like The View. Whoopi Goldberg felt pressed to address the NewsBusters scoop on her place in the Epstein files.
🔴 POLL: Worst Quote of the Week, presented by @TJTAW44 and @Justine_Brooke
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) February 19, 2026
1. David Muir: Trump will destroy the planet and kill you!
2. David Schecter: Climate change was a part of the nation's founding.
3. Ed O’Keefe: When has anybody called Trump racist?
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CBS’s Stephen Colbert continued his years-long streak of not being censored by President Trump on Thursday as he quipped that the man formerly known as Prince Andrew was arrested for abuse of power in office, which is exactly what Trump campaigned on.
The libs are having a normal one this weekend as they decide how they want to talk about Trump taking out one of the most brutal dictators on earth.
And for the now former Supreme Leader of Iran, the Times chose flattery:
Hard-Line Cleric ...
Real life is, tragically, beyond satire.
Every line in this story is crazier than the last.
Ibrahim George Kallon, an illegal alien from Sierra Leone whose visitor visa expired in 2024, was arrested while training to be a Delaware County Prison corrections officer and was charged by Glenolden Police for:
— Rape
— Involuntary deviate sexual intercourse
— Sexual assault
— Aggravated indecent assault
— False imprisonment
— Indecent assault
Delaware County Prison sent him back into the community despite an ICE immigration detainer, so ICE [Philadelphia office] officers had to arrest him at-large on Feb. 11.
If the county won't protect its own residents, we'll do it for them.
The full statement from the president:
Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS. He was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do. This is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country. We are hearing that many of their IRGC, Military, and other Security and Police Forces, no longer want to fight, and are looking for Immunity from us. As I said last night, "Now they can have Immunity, later they only get Death!" Hopefully, the IRGC and Police will peacefully merge with the Iranian Patriots, and work together as a unit to bring back the Country to the Greatness it deserves. That process should soon be starting in that, not only the death of Khamenei but the Country has been, in only one day, very much destroyed and, even, obliterated. The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
Dr. Leonard Goldsmith has cared for a lot of babies during his time as a neonatologist at Virtua Voorhees Hospital in Philadelphia, but a recent patient was an extra special case for him, after caring for her mother in the same hospital 30 years prior.
