Tracy Mumford

The judge wrote that people with refugee status have a legal right to live peacefully in the U.S.

Now, three other quick updates on the administration.

President Trump has sharply intensified his threats against Iran, saying the U.S.

could attack soon with, quote, speed and violence if the country doesn't agree to a set of demands.

Trump didn't outline what those demands are, but the U.S.

has been pushing for Iran to wind down its nuclear program and stop supporting proxy groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, among other things.

The threat comes as the U.S.

Navy has moved ships, including an aircraft carrier, into striking distance of Iran.

And Trump explicitly compared the buildup of forces to what he ordered near Venezuela before U.S.

troops captured its president.

Iran's foreign minister recently warned the U.S.

that an all-out confrontation would be messy and ferocious.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave new details about how the Trump administration is exerting control over Venezuela.

He said the White House will oversee the sale of Venezuelan oil, then decide what revenue from that goes back to the country.

He said the money will come by way of an account managed by Qatar.

Rubio said the third-party account was necessary because of U.S.

financial sanctions on Venezuela.

But Democratic senators questioned the legality of the arrangement and criticized the administration's open-ended involvement in the country.

And last update, in Fulton County, Georgia, yesterday, FBI agents executed a search warrant at an election center in an attempt to seize ballots from the 2020 election.

It's the latest sign that the Trump administration is doubling down on the president's baseless claims that the election was rigged.