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John Boltonformer national security advisor Donald TrumpHe is expected to plead guilty Friday to charges that he illegally stored sensitive national security information.

The agreement with federal prosecutors includes a $2.25 million fine, according to sources familiar with the deal.

Bolton is expected to plead guilty to a charge of withholding classified information, specifically related to diary entries about his work during Trump’s first term. The former adviser, who is now a leading critic of Trump, was accused of passing some of that material to two of his relatives.

The hearing is scheduled for Friday in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a possible sentence could range from prison to five years.

In October, Bolton pleaded not guilty to charges of mishandling classified information while working in the Trump White House.

“This was a very difficult decision for him,” a source close to Bolton told NBC of the expected criminal charges. “Most importantly, he does what leaders do and takes responsibility.

“He understands what that would mean if he went to court, which would mean the disclosure of many more classified documents that he would have to disclose to defend himself. And he didn’t want to do that, given Ukraine and the Middle East.”

Elsewhere, the high court’s conservative majority on Thursday adopted two new decisions that allow the Trump administration to strip certain protections for immigrants and fundamentally reshape the asylum system in the United States.

That means the court is allowing the administration to pursue policies that could remove more than 1 million people from the United States and possibly prevent others from entering.

Dozens of groups, lawyers and members of Congress called the court’s decisions “disastrous” and “cruel,” while the Trump administration, Republican lawmakers and anti-immigrant groups celebrated the decisions.

Court with 6-3 conservative majority gives green light for back-to-back cases Donald TrumpThree liberal justices challenged most of his actions, despite his policies targeting both legal and illegal immigration, with few exceptions.

This will mostly affect Haitian and Syrian immigrants, and hundreds of thousands of people are expected to have their Temporary Protected Status revoked.

“The Trump administration has turned the immigration system into a deportation machine,” he said Elora MukherjeeHe is the director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School in New York.

“In many cases, the supreme court has been a stamp of approval for Trump’s mass deportation agenda,” Mukherjee added.

Here’s what else is going on:

• The Supreme Court also expanded the second article of the constitution, the right to “keep and bear arms.” This includes a decision that would repeal Hawaii’s law that requires gun owners to obtain the owner’s permission before bringing a handgun onto public private property, such as stores and restaurants.

• A new law is expected to come into effect in Texas, requiring approximately 5 million students to attend school compulsorily. study the bible. This comes as part of a broader effort to embed more Christian teachings in schools.

• Advisors to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will soon hold a meeting to consider whether to ease restrictions on access to some investigational peptides, a group of drugs that are widely pursued and have weak evidence to support them.