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Six Supreme Court justices will be contorting their arguments like Olympic gymnasts when they convene on Thursday, The Nation's legal correspondent Elie Mystal predicted this week during an appearance on CNN's "Newsnight" with Abby Phillip.

"What we'll see tomorrow... is a level of intellectual gymnastics from the Conservatives that I swear, Simone Biles will copy in Paris this summer," he explained. 'That's how much twisting and turning they're going to have to do to keep Trump on the ballot."

A Republican lawmaker Wednesday accused an unnamed "popular commentator" of threatening to destroy him if he pushed bipartisan border control legislation before the 2024 presidential election.

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) made this accusation in a Senate session to vote on his bipartisan $118 billion border security-foreign aid to Israel and Ukraine bill that political analysts believe could be dead on arrival.

Forcing a showdown with Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will try Wednesday to salvage the wartime funding from a collapsed deal that had included border enforcement, pushing ahead on a crucial test vote for tens of billions of dollars for Kyiv, Israel and other U.S. allies.

With the border deal off, the New York Democrat planned to force Republicans to take two tough procedural votes. First, on the long-negotiated $118 billion package with border enforcement measures that collapsed this week after Republicans rejected it; then, for a modified package with the border portion stripped out. If either passes it would still take the Senate days to reach a final vote.

Former President Donald Trump ramped up his threats to prosecute President Joe Biden if he wins another term in the White House.

An appeals court rejected Trump's claims of immunity in the federal election subversion case in the District of Columbia, although he intends to press the same argument in Florida, where he also faces federal charges for mishandling classified documents, and the ex-president issued what appeared to be a "blackmail" threat against his Democratic rival.

In an op-ed published at the National Review this Wednesday, Jim Geraghty contends that Democrats will never be as good at beating Republicans than Republicans are at beating themselves.

Geraghty then rattled off a list of recent Republican "self owns," starting out with their killing of a bipartisan border security package, putting everything "back to square one." Also mentioned was the failed Republican effort to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in 2023 to the smallest in three years, government data showed Wednesday, while the country imported more goods from Mexico than China for the first time in about two decades.

The latest figures add to a series of positive economic news for President Joe Biden, who has been working to boost sentiment on his handling of the economy as his November reelection campaign picks up pace.

An election technology company has accused a pro-Donald Trump cable network of soliciting “stolen” passwords from hackers after the 2020 election, according to a new CNN report.

These accusations were levied in a civil defamation lawsuit against One America News, the channel on which ex-Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell falsely claimed the company Smartmatic had rigged election results to favor President Joe Biden, according to the report.