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Texas Republicans have moved to ensure that a Democratic lawmaker elected in a shock special election upset earlier this year will effectively have no power — at least for the time being.

According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, "On Monday afternoon, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced which senators would fill committee vacancies, following recent membership shakeups ... Newly sworn in Sen. Taylor Rehmet wasn’t among the senators named on the lieutenant governor’s latest list of committee appointees."

President Donald Trump threw his full political weight behind a Florida state house candidate in his own backyard — but the Republican he's backing has faced swirling questions about whether he even lives in the district he wants to represent.

Trump posted a full-throated Truth Social endorsement Monday of Jon Maples, declaring he has his "complete and total endorsement" for Tuesday's special election in Florida House District 87, a coastal Palm Beach County seat covering some of the wealthiest ZIP codes in the state, including Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter, Singer Island and Palm Beach itself.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is again trying to send the wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the west African nation of Liberia and urging a federal judge to dismiss a bar on his removal, according to legal documents filed over the weekend.

Abrego Garcia, of Maryland, has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, which will accept him as a refugee, and is fighting his removal to another third country. The Trump administration cannot remove him to his home country of El Salvador, after he was mistakenly deported there in 2025 and kept in a brutal Salvadoran prison.

President Donald Trump thought he was landing a blow when he declared California Gov. Gavin Newsom unfit for the presidency because of his dyslexia, but in doing so, he exposed a fatal flaw.

That's the argument from New York Times contributing Opinion writer Molly Jong-Fast, who has dyslexia herself — and was expelled from private school as a child because of it. In a blistering op-ed on Monday, she dismantled Trump's attack while exposing what she described as his fundamental flaw.

President Donald Trump seems to have broad polling support among Republicans for the escalating war against Iran, despite the vocal outcry of some prominent MAGA figures against the war. But that support may be a lot more fragile than it seems, former GOP strategist Tim Miller told MS NOW's Alicia Menendez on Monday's edition of "Deadline: White House."

"I think it is interesting ... that the people who are calling out the absurdity, the recklessness of what they're doing, are people ... who in many other ways [are] in lockstep with this administration," said Menendez, bringing up as examples Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Nancy Mace (R-SC). "I wonder what you make as a sort of student of the MAGA movement and who chooses when to be in alignment and when about the specific fractures, we are seeing in this moment."

Senate Republicans are abdicating their basic oversight powers over President Donald Trump's war in Iran, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) fumed Monday on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House."

The segment was part of a broader discussion about how even multiple GOP senators, including Rand Paul (R-KY) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), have sounded the alarm about the administration's war plans in a new Washington Post article.

A democracy that rests on a single Supreme Court vote is "living on borrowed time" and Monday's oral arguments suggest that time may be running out, Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern warned Monday.

Stern watched four conservative Supreme Court justices signal their willingness to gut mail ballot grace period laws in 30 states, potentially invalidating the votes of 750,000 Americans, with fewer than 150 days until the midterms.

President Donald Trump's winning cross-section of voters that got him back into office is already falling apart, according to a new poll released by Morning Consult on Monday, with several voting groups essential to his victory turning on him at a rapid pace.

This comes amid widespread public outrage over the war in Iran, abuses of power by federal immigration agents, and a swiftly weakening economy that is seeing a massive jobs slowdown at the same time as inflation is beginning to accelerate again.

A new report shed light on the collateral damage of President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign: the dogs and cats left behind.

When federal immigration agents swept through New Orleans, they snatched people and left pets to fend for themselves, according to a New York Times report that looked into the quiet devastation of Trump's immigration agenda — a surge of abandoned and displaced pets flooding already-overwhelmed animal shelters from Minnesota to Florida.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been on a crusade of "subterfuge" against the Constitution by instituting stealth "viewpoint discrimination" at every turn, former prosecutor Harry Litman wrote for his "Talking Feds" Substack on Monday — and just got curb-stomped for it by an irate federal judge.

Hegseth, a former Fox News personality who styles himself "Secretary of War" due to a controversial and non congressionally approved department name change by President Donald Trump, has repeatedly been caught abusing his powers, including threats to court-martial a U.S. senator who reminded troops they have a duty to refuse illegal orders.