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Right-wing lawyer Mike Davis upped his rhetoric against prosecutors who brought criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, even going as far as to suggest which charge he thinks Jack Smith and other prosecutors could face.

Declaring that people who engaged in the filing of criminal charges against Trump “must face consequences,” Davis said a criminal probe under 18 USC §241 – conspiracy against rights – could be what’s in store for state and federal prosecutors.

Prosecutors in Michigan are plowing ahead with trying to charge Republican electors who signed onto a document in 2020 falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner over Joe Biden, even as cases against the president-elect collapse.

The Michigan Attorney General's Office on Monday filed several briefs asking a judge to advance charges to trial against MAGA allies in the state, The Detroit News reported Monday night. Kim Bush, a spokeswoman for Dana Nessel, the attorney general, told the newspaper that the case against the so-called "fake electors" is still active, despite Trump's election.

Donald Trump wants everyone to know, he's going to make good on his tariff threats on day one.

The president-elect took to his Truth Social platform to single out three particular countries — China, Mexico, and Canada — as places whose goods will be sharply taxed when Americans go to buy them in stores.

Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) issued a dire warning to CNN's Alex Marquardt about the dangers of confirming Tulsi Gabbard as Donald Trump's director of national intelligence — and urged Senate Republicans to step up and do what's right.

"I want to ask you about another national security pick, Tulsi Gabbard, former Democrat, former Democrat from the House, a very unorthodox choice for the director of national intelligence," said Marquardt, playing a clip of Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) expressing his own misgivings about the choice.

For a former president embroiled in a head-spinning number of criminal cases, Jack Smith’s move to dismiss charges in Donald Trump’s election subversion matter on Monday closed the door on the legal saga that likely won’t be reopened again, according to a former federal prosecutor.

“The bottom line is it's over,” CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said. “Both of these cases are over.”

A key economic expert laid bare the potentially devastating consequences to the U.S. economy if Donald Trump tries to unwind President Joe Biden's legislative accomplishments when he takes office.

"The White House announced today that the infrastructure bills passed during the Biden administration have spurred over $1 trillion in private sector investments," posted Steven Rattner, an MSNBC economic analyst and former adviser to the Obama administration on rescuing the auto industry. "If Trump tries to repeal these laws, the consequences would be costly."

Just as President-elect Donald Trump’s transition process in 2016 foreshadowed his first four years in office, his ongoing preparations for his next term offer a glimpse into the country's future.

Four New York Times opinion columnists discussed Trump’s early moves – and what they signal – in an online conversation published Monday. They began with deputy opinion editor Patrick Healy recalling how the 2016 transition phase revealed what would become fixtures in his administration, including the "pressure for loyalty from his cabinet picks and other government officials; the jockeying for power and influence among conservative, campaign and establishment G.O.P. factions; [and] Trump’s constant tweeting."

Donald Trump's appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has raised questions about the legalization of many alternative remedies scarcely being tested by researchers.

The Guardian reported Monday that the vaccine skeptic's distrust of pharmaceuticals prompted him to oppose the "suppression of psychedelics," meaning things like "magic mushrooms," which contain psilocybin or cannabis.

Fox News weekend co-host Pete Hegseth, nominated to head the Pentagon by President-elect Donald Trump, criticized the president in 2015 after Trump said he gets military advice by watching TV, according to a Monday report in The Bulwark.

Hegseth jabbed the president in a 2015 interview with Fox News that Trump looked to TV for military advice, according to the report.

Some of President-elect Donald Trump's nominees for his second administration have been generating considerable controversy.

Trump's more mainstream picks are likely to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate with bipartisan support, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) — Trump's choice for secretary of state.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz appears to be the newest ex-member of Congress to hit the social platform Cameo, and it has its CEO talking about the Congress-to-Cameo pipeline.

Sharing his thoughts on Gaetz and his fellow politicians making themselves available for personalized videos to their fans for a few hundred dollars a pop, Cameo chief executive Steven Galanis disputed the notion that it was too soon after his doomed nomination for Gaetz to join Cameo.

As special counsel Jack Smith asks for federal cases against Donald Trump to be dismissed ahead of Trump retaking the presidency and assuming immunity at the federal level, he has conspicuously not moved to stop litigating the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against Trump's accused co-conspirators, Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira.

But that might not matter, former Trump payroll attorney William Brennan told CNN's Erica Hill on Monday — because even if the DOJ overturns the blanket dismissal of the case ordered by Judge Aileen Cannon and even if the case somehow proceeds to trial without the Trump administration shutting them down, there's a gaping hole in it that will be hard for juries to accept.

Washington, D.C. Judge Tanya Chutkan has agreed to dismiss Donald Trump's election subversion charges, MSNBC's Adam Klasfeld posted on the social media site BlueSky.

Special counsel Jack Smith asked that the cases be dismissed on Monday afternoon "without prejudice," meaning that "a new indictment could theoretically be returned after Trump's term (with an argument for tolling of the statute of limitation)," said Lawfare's Roger Parloff also on BlueSky.