A former GOP speechwriter flagged a troubling part of a new "emergency" that President Donald Trump declared on Monday.

Trump announced during the Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation at the White House on Monday that his administration is designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. The designation could give the administration more leeway to conduct its strikes against alleged drug boats in international waters.

Tim Miller, host of "The Bulwark Podcast," discussed the move in a new reaction video on YouTube.

"Here's the thing. Fentanyl is obviously terrible, but this is absurd," Miller said. "Fentanyl is used in hospitals. So, are hospitals now using a weapon of mass destruction? I hate to be pedantic here, but fentanyl is a pain relief opiate that has legitimate uses. It is not an atom bomb or sarin gas. It shows you a little bit about the rigor with which they are taking this declaration."

"The points he's making aren't logical," he continued. "But to me, what you're seeing here is they are using this term 'weapon of mass destruction' in the same way that they use the term 'emergency.' They want to create some kind of legal structure, and it will get struck down, but some kind of defensible argument for expanding their war efforts against these drug cartels."

A state judge in Wisconsin ruled Monday that a criminal forgery case can proceed against former aides to President Donald Trump, in connection with the 2020 plot to stand fake electors and overturn the presidential election.

It's one of the last remaining pieces of litigation pending over the 2020 election, as other cases against Trump and his acolytes around the country have either been pleaded out, dismissed, or resolved in other ways. Another such case is still advancing in Nevada, as well.

According to The Associated Press' Scott Bauer, "Dane County Circuit Judge John Hyland ruled that there was probable cause to proceed with the 11 felony forgery charges against Jim Troupis, who was Trump’s campaign attorney in Wisconsin, and Mike Roman, Trump’s director of Election Day operations in 2020." Specifically, per the report, "the judge said communication from the defendants showed their intent to present as legitimate a certificate awarding Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes to Trump, not a document to be accepted only if a court ruled that Trump won the state."

Troupis and Roman maintain they committed no illegal activity and were simply trying to pursue legal options to challenge the election in the event of uncertainty.

"The preliminary hearing of a third person charged, former Trump attorney Ken Chesebro, was postponed amid questions about what statements the man made to prosecutors that could be admitted in court," the report noted. "The judge said he wanted to hold a separate hearing on whether comments Chesebro made in an agreement with Wisconsin investigators were allowed to be admitted at trial."

Chesebro, who notoriously provided legal guidance on how to overturn legitimately confirmed electors, has already pleaded guilty to charges against him in Georgia, and in June of this year, he was disbarred from practicing law in New York.

A pair of legal advocates took a victory lap on Monday night after one of President Donald Trump's allies resigned from her office.

During a new episode of the "Norm and Katie's Legal Fight Club" podcast, Norm Eisen, founder of Democracy Defenders Action, and independent journalist Kate Phang discussed the abrupt resignation of Trump’s U.S. attorney in Delaware, Julianne Murray, on Friday. Murray is the former leader of the state Republican Party and was appointed on an interim basis over the summer.

Murray cited the recent ruling from the 3rd Circuit on former interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba's term in her decision to step down, according to The Washington Post.

"We've actually scared people into submission!" Phang said. "She stepped away from the fight because she didn't want to take the heat. She saw what happened to Alina Habba resigned from her position ... who was illegally appointed, and this woman, Julianne Murray, said, 'I'm not going to do this.'"

The Trump administration has been at odds with lawmakers over the president's appointment powers for nearly the entirety of Trump's second term. Trump has tried to reinstall interim appointees like Habba in key posts to bypass the Senate confirmation process.

Democracy Defenders Action has been leading the charge to oust Trump's illegally appointed "cronies," Eisen said.

"Donald Trump doesn't get to appoint whoever he wants," Eisen said.