Tariff refunds reach $100 billion mark

The U.S. Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court on this day in 2009 on a 68-31 vote. Last week, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on its emergency docket to clear the way for the implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting. Twelve states – led by Alabama – later echoed this request in their own application . On Monday, the group of 23 states and the District of Columbia challenging the order urged the court to deny these requests. The matter is now fully briefed, and the court’s ruling could come at any time. On Tuesday, the court released its calendar for the October argument session . Kevin Breuninger, CNBC In a Tuesday filing in the U.S. Court of International Trade, the Trump administration shared that “it has refunded about $100 billion of the tariff revenue that was collected before President Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ duties were struck down by the Supreme Court,” according to CNBC . That figure “represents about 60% of the roughly $166 billion the government says it raked in from the sweeping tariffs Trump imposed in 2025.” Approximately $29 billion in additional refund requests “have been accepted for processing” and are awaiting action from the administration. Devan Cole, Priscilla Alvarez, and Tami Luhby, CNN On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes “officially allowed the Trump administration to end temporary deportation protection for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, marking the final step, for now, in a months-long case that made its way to the Supreme Court,” according to CNN . In a brief order , Reyes explained that her decision barring the Department of Homeland Security from ending Haitians’ participation in the Temporary Protected Status program “is no longer in effect.” CNN noted that “[t]he order puts to bed a lingering question that had caused confusion among the roughly 350,000 Haitians benefiting from the program. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in late June” stating “that federal courts do not have the power to review challenges to the Homeland Security secretary’s decision to end TPS” “it remained unclear when, exactly, the protections would be officially gone.” Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today On Monday, Mississippi lawmakers “took the first steps toward potentially redrawing Mississippi’s legislative, congressional and judicial districts in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Louisiana v. Callais decision that weakened minority voting protections,” according to Mississippi Today . The Joint Redistricting and Reapportionment Committee “will solicit input from voters in eight different areas of the state over the next two months on how the districts should be redrawn in light of the Callais decision.” Voting rights activists who spoke with Mississippi Today said they “worry the hearings are merely a façade, and lawmakers have already made up their mind to dismantle majority Black districts.” Joanna Slater, The Washington Post The Washington Post profiled U.S. District Judge John McConnell, who, like other federal judges across the country who have ruled against the Trump administration, is navigating “a wave of threats unlike anything” he has previously experienced. Since the beginning of last year, McConnell has “received credible death threats. A MAGA activist doxed his daughter. Two Republicans in Congress started impeachment proceedings against him. An insurance company even canceled McConnell’s homeowner’s policy (the insured party was too risky, the firm indicated, with an attached link to one impeachment effort).” The Washington Post noted that “McConnell’s experience is not unique. In recent years, federal judges and Supreme Court justices have faced increasing risks to their safety.” McConnell told the Post that “he was heartened by statements by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who has said criticism of judges as individuals – rather than of their rulings – is ‘not appropriate.’” Ilya Somi