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ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl's best-selling book Betrayal walks through the startling tale of conversations among Donald Trump's cabinet secretaries as they discussed using the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office.

Testifying to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, Mnuchin said that the conversation he had with Pompeo was brief and that there was no serious plotting around enacting the 25th, which would remove Trump from power.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled that enforcement of the regulation that prohibits the entry of migrants into the country during a public health emergency, known colloquially as "Title 42," must remain in place at least until the court hears arguments next February. The ruling is a victory for several Republican state attorneys general, who sued to prevent the enforcement from lapsing earlier this month, claiming that the free flow of migrants into their states would cause serious harm.

The unsigned decision came down mostly along party lines between the justices appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents. But one of the six right-wing justices — Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch — fiercely dissented, arguing that the court had no business ordering the policy to remain in place just because Republicans want President Joe Biden to do so.

CPAC Chair Matt Schlapp on Tuesday defended Republican Rep.-elect George Santos (NY) after he lied about his education and career experience.

Schlapp suggested that Santos should not resign from his seat after coming clean about his lies in an interview with New York Post.

On Tuesday, writing for Vox, legal expert Ian Millhiser took a sledgehammer to the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit — a judicial body serving Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, loaded with Trump appointees and other highly-partisan conservatives — as the place "where law goes to die" and where "Trumpy" judges routinely blow up precedent and cause chaos so severe that even the Supreme Court, itself a hard-right body, has frequently had to step in and rein them back.

"The Fifth Circuit has, in recent months, declared an entire federal agency unconstitutional and stripped another of its authority to enforce federal laws protecting investors from fraud. It permitted Texas Republicans to effectively seize control of content moderation at social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Less than a year ago, the Fifth Circuit forced the Navy to deploy sailors who defied an order to take the Covid vaccine, despite the Navy’s warning that a sick service member could sideline an entire vessel or force the military to conduct a dangerous mission to extract a Navy SEAL with Covid," wrote Millhiser. "As Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote when the Supreme Court restored the military’s command over its own personnel, the Fifth Circuit’s approach wrongly inserted the courts 'into the Navy’s chain of command, overriding military commanders’ professional military judgments.'"

For thousands of years, predictions of apocalypse have borne little fruit. But with dangers rising from nuclear war and climate change, does the planet need to at least begin contemplating the worst?

When the world rang in 2022, few would have expected the year to feature the US president speaking of the risk of doomsday, following Russia's threats to go nuclear in its invasion of Ukraine.

Temperatures were expected to moderate across the eastern and midwest United States on Tuesday, after days of freezing weather from "the blizzard of the century" left at least 49 dead and caused Christmas travel chaos.

Blizzard conditions persisted in parts of the northeastern US, the stubborn remnants of a sprawl of extreme weather that gripped the country over several days, causing widespread power outages, travel delays and deaths in nine states, according to official figures.

On Monday's edition of MSNBC's "All In," anchor Chris Hayes mocked the GOP by throwing their past predictions of a "red wave" in the 2022 midterm election back at them in a lengthy series of supercuts.

"We begin at the end of this year, and the historic results for the midterm election," said Hayes. "Democrats gained a seat in the Senate, and Republicans managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Historically, midterm elections have been outright disastrous for a first-term president ... Democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 House seats and five Senate seats. Since Watergate, the results have looked even worse for the party. Democratic presidents in their first midterms have lost an average of 44 House seats and six Senate seats. Many political observers on both sides of the aisle were expecting a political bloodbath on the level of, say, 1994's Republican revolution, for instance, when Democrats lost 52 House seats and eight Senate seats during Bill Clinton's first term, or the 2010 Tea Party wave, when Democrats lost a whopping 63 House seats and six Senate seats during Barack Obama's first term. For right-wing media ... a red wave was the sure thing."

On CNN Monday, longtime Mitch McConnell strategist and GOP insider Scott Jennings said that former President Donald Trump is bleeding institutional Republican supporters in large part because they are no longer able to defend him amid a mountain of electoral losses and criminal investigations.

This comes as Trump received another blow last week, with the House Select Committee on January 6 releasing its final report and referring the former president to the Justice Department on four criminal offenses for his role in provoking the insurrection and trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

President Joe Biden is in the perfect position for a new war with the Republican Party as the Senate is in Democratic control and the GOP narrowly controls the House. While it likely means every possible amount of progress will be immobilized by the lifeless Congressional body, it sets up Biden to lead Americans against something everyone can oppose.

Writing for the Washington Post, Toluse Olorunnipa mentioned that some of the top Republican leaders are still singing the praises of the Jan. 6 attackers, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who bragged that if she were in charge of the insurrection, they would have "won." It led the White House press secretary to call her comments "vile." Greene responded by saying it was a "joke," though it's rare for people to see the humor in terrorism.

No one can accuse the January 6 Select Committee’s final report of not being comprehensive; the report, which National Public Radio (NPR) has published in its entirety on its website, is 845 pages long. One of the many things the Committee covers in the report is the fake electors plot of late 2020, which found MAGA Republicans in swing states circulating bogus Electoral College documents in an effort to give electoral votes that now-President Joe Biden legitimately won to Donald Trump.

In an article published by the conservative website The Bulwark the morning after Christmas 2022, attorney/columnist Philip Rotner examines what the January 6 Committee’s final report has to say about that plot and lays out some reasons why it makes a strong argument for criminally prosecuting Trump.

No one can accuse the January 6 Select Committee’s final report of not being comprehensive; the report, which National Public Radio (NPR) has published in its entirety on its website, is 845 pages long. One of the many things the Committee covers in the report is the fake electors plot of late 2020, which found MAGA Republicans in swing states circulating bogus Electoral College documents in an effort to give electoral votes that now-President Joe Biden legitimately won to Donald Trump.

In an article published by the conservative website The Bulwark the morning after Christmas 2022, attorney/columnist Philip Rotner examines what the January 6 Committee’s final report has to say about that plot and lays out some reasons why it makes a strong argument for criminally prosecuting Trump.