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While testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee this Wednesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland was accused by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of orchestrating leaks designed to politically damage Donald Trump.

"Those leaks are not law, or enforcing the law, they are politics," Cruz said, later accusing Garland of spreading leaks "on one side of the aisle advancing a political agenda."

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre pushed back on Wednesday after Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy suggested President Joe Biden was "afraid of China."

At a White House briefing, Doocy wanted to know why Biden had not punished China for Covid-19.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) spoke out in the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday about some of the questions that Republicans have posed throughout the hearing that parrot false conspiracy theories.

It began with Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) addressing Attorney General Merrick Garland by falsely saying that the White House helped teachers' unions write a letter complaining about parents calling teachers Nazis or pedophiles. Insulting teachers was never an issue in the Justice Department, Garland explained. He issued a directive encouraging FBI field offices to track threats against schools and administrations.

US pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly announced Wednesday it was cutting the cost of its most commonly prescribed insulins by 70 percent after years of soaring prices that hit millions of Americans living with diabetes.

The announcement comes as the cost of insulin has surged in recent years, with demand increasing significantly as well.

A spokesman for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) offered a profane response when asked to comment on a misleading claim the congresswoman made online.

Greene blamed President Joe Biden's policies for the deaths of two young men from Michigan whose mother testified Tuesday before the House Homeland Security Committee, although they each overdosed in 2020 while Donald Trump was president.

The Colorado Republican Party is electing a new chairperson later this month, and a report from the Colorado Sun claims that some in the party are fearing a "disastrous" election denier winning the vote.

The publication notes that only one of the six candidates running to be the next chairperson of the Colorado GOP thinks that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, although that candidate has claimed that they don't know whether Biden won "by hook or by crook."

Leonard Leo, the right-wing leader of the judicial activist network the Federalist Society, is coming under scrutiny for his "lavish" use of the organization's funds to live the high life, POLITICO reported on Wednesday.

"A network of political non-profits formed by judicial activist Leonard Leo moved at least $43 million to a new firm he is leading, raising questions about how his conservative legal movement is funded," reported Heidi Przybyla. "Leo’s own personal wealth appeared to have ballooned as his fundraising prowess accelerated since his efforts to cement the Supreme Court’s conservative majority helped to bring about its decision to overturn abortion rights. Most recently, Leo reaped a $1.6 billion windfall from a single donor in what is likely the biggest single political gift in U.S. history."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) reiterated her demand for separation from "woke" liberals by calling for "safe spaces" for conservatives.

Republicans have long sneered at their ideological opponents as "snowflakes" looking to retreat into "safe spaces" -- often to escape racist, sexist or homophobic abuse from conservatives -- but the firebrand Georgia Republican claims she and likeminded folks "deserve" their own.

Former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project activist Stuart Stevens slammed the Republican Party as an "autocratic movement" that no longer has any faith in the democratic process on MSNBC's "All In" Tuesday night.

His remarks came during a discussion with anchor Chris Hayes about Jeb Bush coming out with a video on Fox News praising Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — a moment many have characterized as an "endorsement" but that he has subsequently tried to walk back — and the ongoing legal troubles Fox is facing for pushing election lies.

President Joe Biden's plan to forgive more than $400 billion in student loan debt to over 40 million borrowers drew criticism from conservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as the justices heard oral arguments in a pair of cases that will decide the fate of one of the president's signature policies and impact the financial futures of millions of Americans.

Politico reports members of the high court's right-wing supermajority "repeatedly questioned whether the Education Department had the legal authority it claimed to discharge federal student loan debt to help borrowers recover economically from the national emergency spurred by Covid-19."

United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) undermined her own attack on President Joe Biden's immigration policies surrounding illegal drugs that have been intercepted by Customs and Border Patrol during a Tuesday House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee hearing.

"I want you to know that in 2020 there were 4,800 pounds of fentanyl seized by CBP. But in 2021, fiscal year 2021, it increased to 11,200 pounds of fentanyl was seized by the CBP. That is a direct result of Biden administration failure policies," said Greene. "Now here we are in – to date, to date, fiscal, fiscal year 2023 – they have already seized 12,500 pounds of fentanyl. The Biden administration is failing this country by not protecting our border and securing our border, and stopping Chinese fentanyl from being brought into our country illegally by the cartels, and people are dying every single day because of it."

In a conversation with Stephanie Ruhle on Monday, former FBI general counsel, Andrew Weissmann, suggested that "more" charges might be coming "on the criminal side" for Fox News.

Speaking to Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, he focused more on the idea of legal consequences that Fox News could face as a company.

The mayor of New York City has blamed the lack of prayer in public schools for a flood of guns being found in them.

“When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools,” Democrat Eric Adams said at an interfaith breakfast Tuesday, Politico reported.