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The U.S. Supreme Court last month listened to oral arguments both for and against former President Donald Trump's presidential immunity claims.

Trump is claiming that because he was still president in late 2020 and early 2021, he enjoys total immunity against the federal charges in special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case — and therefore, the case should be thrown out altogether.

Donald Trump's supporters are gloating over a series of legal victories that appear likely to push back the start of his other trials until after the election.

Federal judge Aileen Cannon canceled a May 20 trial date in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case and postponed it indefinitely while legal issues are sorted out, and a Georgia appeals court agreed to take up an effort by Trump to get Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis, and Newsweek reported that the ex-president's fans celebrated.

Former President Donald Trump's attorneys on Thursday tried to get under adult film star Stormy Daniels' skin -- but legal reporter Adam Klasfeld says that those efforts were largely unsuccessful.

While watching Daniels undergo hostile cross-examination during the former president's Manhattan hush-money trial, Klasfeld observed that "Daniels is a lot more confident, wry, and controlled during this cross-examination than when her testimony first began.

CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday struggled to politely describe Stormy Daniels' latest testimony in former President Donald Trump's hush-money trial.

During a contentious exchange on the stand, Daniels was asked about old social media posts she made in which she belittled and ridiculed Trump.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on Thursday hammered away at fellow Republicans who went along with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) efforts to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) this week.

During a CNN interview, Lawler said he was fed up with Republicans whose sole goal seems to be causing chaos within the conference, and he called on leadership to do something to punish members who supported this week's motion to vacate the speaker's chair.

Voters won't be "impressed" by reminders of former President Donald Trump's "sleaze" oozing out of his New York criminal trial, according to anti-Trump conservative Charlie Sykes.

Porn actress Stormy Daniels told a jury about her sexual encounter with the former president, whose attorney then paid her off a decade later to keep her quiet before the 2016 election – when the "Access Hollywood" recording posed an existential threat to his campaign – and Sykes told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that swing voters would be repulsed by the details of Trump's personal life.

David Drucker, a reporter at the conservative publication The Dispatch, told The New Republic's Greg Sargent this week that former President Donald Trump may have sabotaged himself when he went on a tirade against his former rival's donors.

Sargent interviewed Drucker to discuss former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley's surprisingly strong showing in this week's Indiana Republican primary, where she received 22 percent of the vote despite the fact that she dropped out of the race two months ago.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough nearly cursed on the air upon hearing details of Donald Trump's latest Mar-a-Lago fundraiser.

The former president hosted a dinner for supporters who purchased NFT trading cards, including a series of the non-fungible tokens that came with a small swatch of the suit he was wearing during his mugshot at an Atlanta jail, and the "Morning Joe" host laughed out loud.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) failed in her leadership challenge against House Speaker Mike Johnson, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said she and other hard-right Republicans genuinely don't care whether they're in the majority.

Many hardline conservatives represent heavily gerrymandered districts that ensure their own seat is safe, and the "Morning Joe" host said those Republicans would rather rant and rave on the House floor and on social media than take responsibility for governance, so they'd almost prefer to let Democrats take control.

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner on Wednesday urged prosecutors to demand Judge Aileen Cannon be recused from Donald Trump's classified documents case.

Trump is accused of taking government documents upon leaving the White House. Among those documents were classified documents, including things governed by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) revealed a list of demands after meeting with House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) this week — but so far has managed to extract nothing from him.

The Georgia Republican told Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast that she wanted Johnson to agree to no more aid for Ukraine and to cut funding for special counsel Jack Smith's investigations into Donald Trump. But the House speaker refused to negotiate with Greene – who is looking increasingly weak and desperate, according to Republican strategist and MSNBC columnist Susan Del Percio.