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The vast majority of information released thus far in Donald Trump's classified documents trial has been redacted, with large black squares appearing on page after page. That secrecy was reduced Wednesday – but only by a little.

Court documents show that Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered that more details of the justifications given to secure a search warrant letting FBI agents into Mar-a-Lago be revealed to the public. However, he denied the release of the entire affidavit.

Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann sounded off Wednesday about the recent decision to restrict communication between the government and social media companies.

Speaking to MSNBC, Weissmann explained that the ruling from a conservative Donald Trump-appointed federal judge is a result of the issue being politicized by the GOP.

A prominent legal analyst on Tuesday called on law enforcement to hold Donald Trump accountable for the Jan. 6 insurrection and subsequent actions, citing the recent arrest of a Jan. 6 defendant found heavily armed near former President Barack Obama’s Washington D.C. home.

NBC News legal analyst Glenn Kirschner in a YouTube video said President Joe Biden had been asked by world leaders why Trump hadn’t yet been held to account for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The district attorney of Philadelphia didn't hold back during a Tuesday press conference after another mass shooting in America.

Five people were killed, and two were injured on Monday in his city, leading to anger and frustration. It has become an emotion seen in many cities nationwide that experience mass shootings. Over and over, local lawmakers move from begging for help to demanding action.

The widespread use of cell phone and body cameras mean that few police officers are able to do anything without it being captured on video.

It's unclear if that is what triggered a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy last week. When he saw a woman filming him, he threw her to the ground, KABC News reported.

Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security, said that despite the talk about Donald Trump's indictments for stealing the White House documents upon leaving office.

Speaking to Symone Sanders-Townsend, filling in for MSNBC's Chris Hayes, McCord explained that in many ways, a second Trump indictment will be much more severe than the first one will be, despite the first dealing with national security.

Michael Rapaport on Monday slammed failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake for spreading baseless claims about election fraud in a video the actor and comedian posted on Twitter.

Rapaport, in the approximately 90-second video, assailed Lake over the recent publication of her book, “Unafraid.”

Appearing on MSNBC Monday, The Nation's legal columnist, Elie Mystal, said that among Donald Trump's defenses around the 2020 election is that his lawyers were telling him that what he was doing was legal. It's not something that Mystal said works.

"I also think it's really interesting these two Nevada fake electors who were granted immunity in exchange for testifying before a D.C. grand jury," host Alicia Menendez said. "Because there are all these folks who will argue, I was just doing what the guys at the top told me to do. I was following these people who I perceived to have a lot of power. What is it that these two folks might be able to share? What could their testimony reveal differently than someone who was very close to the epicenter of what was happening?"

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was booed over the weekend during an appearance at a Donald Trump rally. He's the latest casualty in Trump's long history of eating careers.

Whether Michael Cohen, Rudy Giuliani or Christina Bobb, the revolving door of Trump lawyers led to mockery, with foes claiming MAGA stands for "making attorneys get attorneys."

The new reporting about former President Donald Trump's post-election phone call with then-Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is a further encapsulation of how "obsessed" he was with overturning the result in Arizona, said CNN chief national affairs correspondent Jeff Zeleny in a panel on Monday.

"I do want to ... get your thoughts," said anchor Alex Marquardt. "We have sources telling CNN after President Trump lost the 2020 election, he then called the former governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, to pressure him to overturn results in that state. We understand that Ducey has not spoken with the special counsel, Jack Smith, but doesn't this add more fuel to that January 6 investigation?"

There was a clash of two commentators on MSNBC Monday evening as Washington Post columnist Philip Bump explained how Donald Trump isn't going to lose any support over his trial.

"First of all, Donald Trump is doing much better now than he ever did in 2016," said Bump citing the poll numbers from the early days of 2015. In "2016 he ended up getting about 45 percent. Now he is consistently pulling 50 percent. He wasn't hitting 50 percent until later in the primary cycle last time."

MSNBC host Joy Reid couldn't help but notice that there is a strange obsession on the right with the children of Democrats. Even after Hunter Biden pleaded guilty, "that doesn't satisfy Republicans. Maybe in part because they actually seem to enjoy attacking the family members of Democratic presidents."

She went on to recall Rush Limbaugh's obsession with 12-year-old Chelsea Clinton.

A prominent white historian sparked outrage when she told a conference that her professional life would have been easier if she were Black.

Lois Banner, who wrote a well-known biography of Marilyn Monroe, claimed at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians she co-founded in the 1970s that being Black would have given her a professional advantage, and also wished aloud that she was a lesbian because they're good at organizing for their community, reported The Daily Beast.