NPR's Scott Simon asks former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about working with a president and previously confidential emails between him and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
The Trump administration wants to withdraw from the Flores agreement, a decades-old legal settlement concerning detention of children. Dolly Gee is the federal judge at the heart of the battle.
"Voting in a language you do not understand is like asking this Court [to] decide the winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry — ineffective, in other words," a federal judge said in the Friday ruling.
Donald Trump's former campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his connections to Russian operatives in 2016.
President Trump's pick for the high court successfully parried questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Democratic complaints that they had seen just 10 percent of his government record didn't seem to raise much public ire.
President Trump ends this week closer to having a second Supreme Court justice confirmed and more strong jobs numbers. But this week also saw dysfunction inside his administration dominate headlines.
NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of The New York Times about confirmation hearings, an anonymous op-ed from inside the White House and former President Obama on the campaign trail.
As the U.K. and Russia quarrel over who is responsible for poisoning incidents in Britain, the U.S. and Pakistan seem to be on friendlier terms this week.
Late Thursday night, Brett Kavanaugh finished his marathon testimony before the Senate judiciary committee. Friday, the committee moves on to witnesses testifying for and against the nominee.