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Trump attended for the Solicitor General's arguments but left as Attorney Cecilia Wong made her case.

for people challenging his order.

Wong told the justices to agree with the president would radically rewrite the Constitution and upend more than 150 years of settled law.

A decision is expected near the end of the Supreme Court term this summer.

Carrie Johnson, NPR News.

Erez Ruvani helped oversee major lawsuits over President Trump's immigration policy last year, but he was put on leave and then fired nearly a year ago after he raised concerns that top Justice Department officials were telling lawyers to ignore or mislead federal courts.

Ruvani's lawyers say 15 months have passed since he blew the whistle, but there's no sign the inspector general at the DOJ launched a serious investigation, and they cited correspondence showing the IG had closed the matter.

They say it's part of a broader abdication of responsibility at the Justice Department.

DOJ says Rouveni is, quote, desperate for relevancy and there's no legitimate basis to investigate.

Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

The settlement would resolve allegations by Missouri and Louisiana that Biden-led agencies tried to shut down speech about the pandemic in the 2020 election.

Conservatives argued they'd been deplatformed by major social media sites for taking unpopular views.

The cases hinged on bitter divides over misinformation, disinformation and censorship.

The new agreement would bar the Surgeon General, the CDC, and the Cybersecurity Agency from threatening social media companies to take down posts or face punishment.

Attorney General Pam Bondi says the deals are, quote, key steps in undoing abuses of the First Amendment, especially against conservative media.

The settlements still require judicial approval.

Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

Barry Pollack, a U.S.-based lawyer from Maduro, says the American government has repeatedly granted special permission to people who want to do business in Venezuela.

Those licenses are necessary because of American sanctions.

But Pollack says the Treasury Department has essentially barred Venezuela from paying its former president's legal fees in what he says amounts to an unlawful interference with Maduro's right to counsel.