... "No other recent American president has talked so openly about committing potential war crimes, legal experts, historians and former U.S. officials say. ...

No other American President has 34 criminal convictions.

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... But Trump is happy to browbeat whomever it takes to get what he wants. And he's reserved some of his most pointed recent criticisms for Supreme Court justices he appointed who have occasionally ruled against him.

So after spending two years floating breaking this norm -- and after suffering his biggest Supreme Court defeat in the chamber's February tariffs decision -- Trump finally did it.

But his decision to go was curious. And it's arguably even more so after the hearing.

Trump seemed to want to send a signal to judges, who have increasingly proven his biggest obstacles in his second term. The fact that he chose to attend even amid the war with Iran -- and hours ahead of a primetime address to the nation on the conflict -- would seem to reinforce that. It's not like he doesn't have other things to do.

But combined with a series of adverse recent court rulings, his presence at the Supreme Court risked reinforcing how little he can control the judicial branch.

The policy at issue on Wednesday was Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship. On the president's first day back in office last year, he sought to effectively overturn the more-than-century-old interpretation that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to the children born to noncitizens on US soil.

The conventional wisdom has long been that this order stood little chance of surviving the courts -- it's been ruled against at every turn in the lower courts -- and Wednesday's hearing did little to disabuse anyone of that notion.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer faced a barrage of skeptical questions even from the court's conservative and Trump-appointed justices.

In perhaps the most difficult exchange for the administration, Chief Justice John Roberts pressed Sauer on its claims about so-called "birth tourism," or traveling to US soil to deliver a child so they can be a citizen. When Roberts noted that wasn't a problem when the 14th Amendment was ratified after the Civil War, Sauer responded that "we're in a new world now."

To which Roberts shot back: "Well, it's a new world. It's the same Constitution." ...

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... Seventeen states had sued to stop the administration from forcing several universities from submitting seven years of data on applicants and admitted students to prove that they have not factored race into admission decisions, Politico and The Los Angeles Times reported.

U.S. District Court Judge Dennis Saylor on Friday night issued a preliminary injunction that will allow universities in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin to retain their records until the trial is over.

The injunction said that the administration's efforts to gather the information are "rushed" and "chaotic," and moves to shut down the federal Department of Education would not only make collecting and analyzing the data difficult, but it may also become illegal.

"This is not a merely technical issue," Saylor said in the ruling, explaining that if the department no longer exists, the work "cannot be turned over to States and local communities; they have no authority ... to conduct such surveys." ...

Looks like Pres Trump will be holding a press conference Monday at 1PM ET about this rescue.