(NPR) President Donald Trump plans to sit in on Wednesday's Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship, making him the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the nation's highest court. The Republican president's official schedule, sent out by the White House, included a stop at the Supreme Court, where justices will hear Trump's appeal of a lower court ruling that struck down his executive order limiting birthright citizenship.

(Wall Street Journal) President Trump plans to deliver a speech on Wednesday evening at 9 p.m. ET to give "an important update on Iran," according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Trump told reporters on Tuesday he believes the war will wrap up in two to three weeks as the U.S. continues to hit targets. Now in its fifth week, the conflict was initially forecasted to last four to six weeks, according to the Trump administration.

(CNN) Trump’s overall approval rating has held relatively steady at 35%, one point off his all-time low in CNN polling. There’s been notable erosion, however, in his standing with his own partisans. The share of Republicans who strongly approve of his job performance has dropped to 43%, from 52% in January. President Donald Trump’s approval rating for handling the economy has fallen to a new career low of 31%, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, reflecting growing pessimism among Americans over the issue they consistently describe as the most important.

(emptywheel) The most important passage from the Daily Mail you need to read this week are these paragraphs describing how, in advance of the Alex Pretti murder, Stephen Miller had ordered DHS goons to 'vanquish [protesters] through force of arms.' "So we need to engage these protesters, and we need to vanquish them by force of arms. They need to be vanquished by any force necessary," Miller reportedly told immigration leaders, according to the source. Mere hours after a Border Patrol and ICE agents fatally shot Pretti, an ICU nurse, Miller called the victim an ‘assassin’ on social media.

(Jojofromjerz) Just to be crystal clear, I don’t give a fuck what Kristi Noem’s husband is into when it comes to his sexuality, unless it’s illegal, because what a grown ass adult does in the privacy of their own life, in their own home, in the quiet, unmonitored, uninvited corners of their own existence, is not up for public consumption or public exploitation, no matter what those sanctimonious, self-satisfied MAGA-stupid shit-stirrers think, and the fact that this even has to be said out loud right now is a pretty damning reflection of just how far gone this shit has gotten. What I do care about is people like Kristi Noem trying to police everyone else’s personal choices.

(CNN) The top official in charge of the federal government’s disaster response has taken to social media to double down on his claim that he’s experienced “teleportation” – an experience he insists was real and connected to his religious beliefs – while also saying his remarks have been taken out of context. “Haters gonna hate,” Gregg Phillips, a senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, wrote in one comment defending himself earlier this month.

(AP) TMZ built its brand tracking celebrities. Now it’s turning its attention to Congress, chasing down paparazzi-style shots of lawmakers on break from Washington during a record-long partial government shutdown. Videos and photos posted by the tabloid website showing lawmakers in airports, Las Vegas and even Disney World have racked up millions of views and fueled a growing backlash. With travel disruptions persisting and some federal workers going without pay, pressure is mounting on Congress to cut short its regularly scheduled recess.

(The Guardian) Three former FBI agents filed a class-action lawsuit against the bureau and justice department on Tuesday, along with the FBI director, Kash Patel, and attorney general, Pam Bondi, claiming they had been wrongfully terminated for working on the criminal cases related to Donald Trump. The agents – Jamie Garman, Blaire Toleman and Michelle Ball – all worked on a public corruption squad in the FBI’s Washington field office and worked on investigations of Trump. All three were abruptly fired from the FBI last year.

(Reuters) A federal judge on Tuesday declined to approve a Trump administration-crafted settlement that would have allowed churches and other houses of worship to endorse ‌political candidates to their congregations without risking losing their status as tax-exempt nonprofits. U.S. District ‌Judge J. Campbell Barker in Tyler, Texas, ruled he lacked jurisdiction to hear the case and sign off on a consent ​judgment that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service had entered into with two Texas churches and the National Religious Broadcasters.

(NBC News) The Department of Homeland Security is pausing plans to buy more warehouses to detain immigrants, according to two senior DHS officials who stressed the decision may only be temporary. The two officials said that while purchasing is on hold, plans are moving forward to develop facilities that have already been acquired for that purpose. It’s not clear yet whether incoming Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin will change the direction of immigration enforcement and detention.