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The discovery of additional government documents at President Joe Biden's home on Saturday, dating back to when he was vice president under President Barrack Obama, should not have any impact on special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into Donald Trump's hoarding documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

That's according to a former U.S. attorney who did admit it will be perceived as a "political" problem -- but that has nothing to do with following the letter of the law.

Democrats are in control of the House for the first time since 2010 and have taken charge of the Senate for the first time since 1984.

Three of those House members initially denied initial committee assignments have helped, in varying degrees, to perpetuate the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen: State Reps. Angela Rigas (R-Hastings), Mike Hoadley (R-Au Gres) and Matt Maddock (R-Milford). However, all three were later added to the House Committee on Housing, which Rigas complained was “an obscure housing subcommittee with no clear direction.”

According to a report from the New York Times's Charlie Savage, attorneys for President Joe Biden have upped the number of government documents for his eight years as vice president under President Barrack Obama that have been discovered at his Wilmington home from one to six.

The report notes that the increased number comes right after attorneys for the president had just released a statement that said only one had been found.

A Michigan Republican Party co-chair, who is under the cloud of a possible investigation over attempting to overturn the 2020 election results, is reportedly stepping aside but her GOP colleagues fear she is not done sowing seeds of discontent after she is gone.

According to a report from the Daily Beast's Jon King, avid Donald Trump supporter Meshawn Maddock will reportedly not run for another term as a co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party in the wake of the "ass-kicking" the party received in the 2022 midterm election that saw Democrats gain a super-majority in the legislature.

Brazil’s Supreme Court has agreed to investigate whether former president Jair Bolsonaro incited the far-right mob that ransacked the country’s Congress, top court and presidential offices, a swift escalation in the probe that shows the ex-leader could face legal consequences for an extremist movement he helped build.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes granted a request from the prosecutor general's office to include Bolsonaro in the wider investigation, citing a video the former president posted on Facebook two days after the riot. It claimed Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wasn't voted into office, but rather was chosen by the Supreme Court and Brazil's electoral authority.

Donald Trump was up bright and early on Saturday morning ranting about the Department of Justice's investigation into the sensitive documents he took to his Mar-a-Lago resort and refused to give back which eventually led to the FBI serving him with a warrant and searching the premises.

Using the documents discovered at President Joe Biden's residence from when he was vice president as a springboard, the former president characterized the "Special Counsel" looking into the Biden situation as "not known as a flame-throwing lunatic" while taking aim at his own nemesis as a "Trump Hating political Thug."

As Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Friday that the United States is likely to reach its arbitrary borrowing limit next week, progressives denounced congressional Republicans for threatening to use a debt ceiling standoff to force cuts to popular federal programs including Medicare and Social Security.

"They have the tiniest majority of one house and they are prepared to use it to get concessions they know are incredibly unpopular," Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, toldThe Washington Post. "It would be a terrorist attack on the economy."

When Glenn Youngkin won Virginia’s gubernatorial race in November 2021, it was a major disappointment for Democrats. Virginia, once dominated by Republicans, has evolved into a swing state and is arguably the best state for Democrats in the South. Virginia has two Democratic U.S. Senators (Tim Kaine and Mark Warner), and a Republican hasn’t won Virginia in a presidential race since George W. Bush in 2004.

But in 2021, Youngkin portrayed himself as a traditional Mitt Romney type of business conservative, and he defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe by about 2 percent. Democrats, however, fared better in Virginia in the 2022 midterms. Although Democratic strategists saw Youngkin’s victory as a bad omen for the midterms, their overall performance in 2022 turned out to be much better than expected. Democrats narrowly lost the U.S. House of Representatives — where Rep. Kevin McCarthy is now speaker — but slightly increased their U.S. Senate majority and won gubernatorial races in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and other swing states.