Supreme Court Justice taken to hospital after falling ‘ill’ in previously unknown incident

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital last month after falling “ill” in a previously unreported incident, CNN reported on Friday.

Citing "people with knowledge of the incident,” CNN reported that on March 20 during a Federalist Society dinner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Alito had fallen “ill” and was taken to a nearby hospital. He was evaluated and treated for dehydration before returning home that same night. The incident has not been previously reported, and Alito declined to comment on the matter when pressed by CNN.

Alito, 76, has contemplated retirement, according to his “close friends” who spoke with CNN on the condition of anonymity.

The Republican Party's internal warfare over the DHS shutdown has exposed a stunning divide between Senate and House leadership, with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) cutting a deal that left House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) completely out of the loop — and fuming.
According to MS NOW's Mychael Schnell, Thune won the political war, but both leaders emerged from the funding battle bruised and bloodied, with Donald Trump wielding his unpredictable power to destabilize the process at will.
Early last Friday morning, the Senate unanimously backed a compromise to fund most of DHS while leaving the most contentious provisions for a future reconciliation bill. It appeared to be a workable solution. At 2:41 a.m., Thune sounded cautiously optimistic about Trump's support.
Then everything fell apart.
Minutes after the Senate passed its bill, Johnson called Trump to say his House conference would reject the deal. Later that morning, Johnson told his members that Thune had cut them out entirely.
"They cut off communications with us last night," Johnson said on the Friday conference call. "The Senate did this without informing me or even all of their members or the White House. No one was involved."
But Thune's account contradicted Johnson's narrative. The Senate leader said he had texted with Johnson overnight, going "back and forth a little bit" about the deal. Multiple sources confirmed Thune had given Johnson advance notice, suggesting Thune was actually shocked by Johnson's sudden opposition — not the other way around.
House Republicans were livid about the method of notification. One GOP member, speaking anonymously, complained that Thune had texted Johnson instead of calling about a deal of such magnitude.
"When you do something like that, you don't f------ text. You pick up the phone and call," the Republican said.
The clash exposes fundamentally different political realities facing the two leaders. Thune operates in the Senate, where the 60-vote threshold forces bipartisan compromise and gives him flexibility to cut deals. Johnson commands a paper-thin House majority under constant threat of revolt — with hard-liners wielding the motion to vacate as a weapon that could cost him his job.
"There are different dynamics," one Senate Republican explained. "Johnson has to contend more with his right flank. Thune has to deal with senators in the middle. They're playing to different bases."
But both leaders now face an unpredictable third force: a president whose shifting positions can upend the entire process overnight, leaving everyone scrambling.

U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro, a candidate for President Donald Trump's next attorney general, once forced an author to clean her home, including her dog's feces.

In a Friday profile of Pirro, writer Lisa DePaulo told Intelligencer that the former judge had asked her to move in while writing her latest book.

"It was going to be a great experience. And it wasn't," the author recalled.

"DePaulo moved into the basement of Pirro's sprawling Westchester home. When she was getting her makeup done, DePaulo says, Pirro would pad around the house wearing nothing but 'panties, high heels, and these little stickers that she put on her nipples,'" Intelligencer reported. "But her stay turned out to be a less-than-comfortable experience. DePaulo had to deal with mice in the basement (a problem that, according to DePaulo, Pirro demanded she keep to herself since Pirro was trying to sell the house); seven guns stashed around, which, DePaulo recalls Pirro saying, were all loaded; Pirro barring her from touching the Fiji water in the pantry, saying it was for guests only; and Pirro's obsession with keeping household expenses down (DePaulo says Pirro once berated her for leaving a hallway light on overnight)."

Eventually, Pirro began to treat DePaulo like the help, according to the new reporting.

"There were numerous times, she says, when Pirro asked her to clean up dog feces deposited by Pirro's enormous poodles. ('My dogs, when they poop, it's, like, sick,' Pirro tells me,)" the profile recounted. "According to DePaulo, there was also the time that she was invited to a wedding held at the house and told to clean the windows before the guests arrived. 'That was demeaning,' DePaulo says. 'I was dressed for the wedding, and she hands me this big thing of Windex and paper towels, pushed them into my hands, and said, 'Do it!''"

The speed at which the Department of Justice employees literally threw away Pam Bondi tells you everything you need to know about how despised she was by career officials.
According to reporting from Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonnig obtained by MS NOW, "Within hours of the news that President Donald Trump had fired Pam Bondi as attorney general, images began circulating of her framed portrait, unceremoniously removed from its place of honor near the president and vice president on the walls of Justice Department offices."
One photo showed Bondi's portrait directly in a trash bin.
The swift disposal isn't coincidental. Current and former DOJ officials confirmed it reflects how deeply unpopular Bondi had become — so much so that thousands of career employees left the department rather than follow her orders, with dozens more forced out.
The animosity stems from an incident early in her tenure that crystallized her contempt for DOJ's professional workforce. Bondi entered a secure area of the national security division and discovered that portraits of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and former Attorney General Merrick Garland were still hanging on the walls after Trump's inauguration.
She demoted a respected career veteran over the pictures.
Bondi later recounted the episode on Fox News, painting it as evidence of Democratic disloyalty among DOJ employees.
"I went up on the seventh floor, which is the national security division. The entire floor is a SCIF, so no one can get in there. So I was able to get the code, open the door, and I look on the wall and see President Biden, Kamala Harris, and Merrick Garland's paintings still hanging."
"I personally took all three photos down," she boasted. "I put them in front of someone who said to me, 'Oh well, maintenance is really slow here.' I said, 'Well it took me about 30 seconds to get them off the wall.'"
The irony is searing: nearly all of the senior career officials Bondi suspected of disloyalty had served loyally and ably throughout Trump's first term without incident. They viewed her power play over portraits as petty vindictiveness masquerading as loyalty testing.
Now that Bondi has been shown the door, many DOJ veterans are quietly celebrating — and literally throwing away the evidence of her tenure.