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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has released a sweeping report detailing how former President Donald Trump and a former high-ranking lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

The Democratic-led committee's 394-page document contains intricate details about the former president's actions in the days after the presidential election was called for President Joe Biden. A number of bombshell claims were revealed in the report and ⁠— here are six key takeaways from it.

The House Jan. 6 committee is expected to recommend to the Justice Department that they take action against those subpoenaed by the investigatory committee, NBC News reporter Sahil Kapur reported Thursday. While the committee hasn't announced it yet, impeachment lawyer Norm Eisen agrees it's only a matter of time.

Writing for CNN.com, Eisen and the Democracy Center's Hank Sparks explained that top allies of President Donald Trump won't be able to hide from subpoenas now that they can't rely on the White House to protect them. The committee intends to send out many more subpoenas but began with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Daniel Scavino, former Defense Department official Kashyap Patel, and former Trump advisor Stephen Bannon, according to the committee. They have until Oct. 15 to respond to the requests.

Texas is appealing a federal judge's order temporarily blocking the southern US state's ban on most abortions as the divisive issue appears headed to the Supreme Court.

In a blistering opinion, US District Judge Robert Pitman issued a preliminary injunction late Wednesday halting enforcement of the Texas law known as Senate Bill 8 (SB), which bans abortion after six weeks, before many women even know they are pregnant.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) took to Twitter to attack CNN reporter Jim Sciutto, who tweeted a reminder that the debt ceiling is from, well, debt. The spending comes from previous legislation and programs passed by previous presidents.

Under former President Donald Trump there was a debt change of $7.8 trillion, according to the personal financing site Self. So, the policies that President Joe Biden is proposing as part of his Build Back Better agenda aren't part of that debt because they haven't passed yet. Like a credit card, you'd have to make the purchase to actually be billed for it.

Battles broke out in a House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday over the partisan "audit" in Arizona after the 2020 election.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) began by specifically citing former President Donald Trump and his significant loss to President Joe Biden and the extent to which Republicans in some states were willing to defend the election despite pressure from the former president and GOP leaders.

Donald Trump opened an Oval Office meeting on Jan. 3 by complaining to his acting attorney general that he wasn't doing enough to "overturn" his election loss.

An interim report issued by the Senate Judiciary Committee shows that former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen recalled the White House meeting began with the ousted president pressured him in front of other administration officials to undo his election loss, just three days before his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to stop the certification of Joe Biden's win, reported The Daily Beast.

During a segment on CNN this Thursday, legal analyst Elie Honig commented on a new Senate report detailing how the ringleaders of former President Donald Trump failed attempt to reverse the 2020 elections results finally seem to be facing real consequences for their roles.

Two of those ringleaders were lawyers John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark. As Slate points out, Eastman pushed the idea that then-Vice President Mike Pence could refuse to certify Joe Biden's victory and then promoted it at the Jan. 6 rally before the Capitol riot. Clark went to his Justice Department superiors and pressured several legislatures into awarding their electoral votes to Trump even though Biden carried their states.

LEAVENWORTH — Dangerous understaffing, pervasive drugs and a stockpile of weapons have transformed a private detention center in Kansas into a “hell hole" where violence is routine and inmates are still on lockdown after one was beaten to death this summer.

The Leavenworth Detention Center, a pretrial lockup run by the nation's largest private prison operator, CoreCivic, has been the site of two suicides and at least 10 severe beatings and stabbings this year, according to attorneys representing inmates there. Guards have quit rather than face the dangers.

A former Pentagon and CIA official warned of "significant national security consequences" if Senate Republicans force a default on the national debt.

The U.S. Senate must agree to lift the debt ceiling to avoid defaulting, which MSNBC's Jeremy Bash, a former chief of staff at both the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, said the consequences could be catastrophic.

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on Wednesday leveled former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party for their continued attempts to normalize the January 6th Capitol riots.

While discussing the ongoing work of the House select committee investigating the Capitol riots, Toobin explained why the work they're doing is so important even though former Trump officials are refusing to comply with the committee's subpoenas.