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'I will vote for someone else': Lauren Boebert's 'behavior' puts Colorado election at risk

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) will have a difficult time winning over some Republicans when she runs for re-election in a new district.

CBS Colorado reporter Olivia Young spoke to Republicans in the state about which candidate they would back in the primary election later this year. In addition to Boebert, Republicans Deborah Flora, Jerry Sonnenberg, Richard Holtorf, Michael Lynch and Peter Yu are also running.

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'Just a scandal': Jamie Raskin envisions radical overhaul of Supreme Court

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) called for a radical overhaul of the scandal-plagued U.S. Supreme Court.

The court has been rocked by ethics scandals – particularly those involving justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito – and Raskin urged Congress in an interview with Slate to pass major reforms to rein in what he sees as an increasingly lawless judicial branch to reflect a broader view of the United States.

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Lauren Boebert 'caught in a lie' after hyping bridge project she voted against funding

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) took to social media Wednesday to boast about a bridge project in her area, and it didn't go well.

"Great meeting with Glenwood Springs City Councilor and former Mayor Jonathan Godes," Boebert posted on X. "We have secured over $51.4 million for the South Bridge. Was thrilled to hear about nearly $30 million in costs savings in addition and that my support has helped make this project a reality."

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'Republican civil war': Details surface of GOP lawmaker's massive retaliation campaign

The Texas Republican Party is in the middle of a purge of its own membership, at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott — and out-of-state donors, according to a new report.

The Texas Republican governor, after a group of state legislators defied him over private school voucher funding, is mounting a campaign of retaliation that sets a new political precedent, Politico reported Wednesday.

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'A rebuke': Impeachment lawyer uses hush money trial to shame Supreme Court

The criminal hush money trial in Manhattan is drawing to a close with the jury on track to start deliberating as soon as next week, wrote former White House ethics czar and impeachment counsel Norm Eisen for MSNBC — and that's a stunning rebuke to how the Supreme Court has tied up the former president's federal January 6 trial.

Trump currently faces four criminal trials, with the Manhattan trial the only one proceeding on schedule. The Georgia election racketeering case is delayed by an appeals court weighing an ethics complaint against prosecutor Fani Willis, while the Mar-a-Lago documents case has been indefinitely delayed by the judge — and the federal election case, which by all accounts should have been ready to go, is waiting on the Supreme Court to rule if Trump has presidential immunity.

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Trump vents fury over revelation DOJ was cleared to use 'deadly force' in Mar-a-Lago raid

New court documents reportedly show FBI agents were authorized to use "deadly force" when they raided Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in the hunt for classified material — and the former president is mad about it.

The unsealed court filing shows how federal agents readied for their their raid of the Palm Beach club and were prepared to possibly engage with Secret Service members should the former president return to the premises.

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'Hard to believe': Chuckling Arizona AG fact-checks Rudy Giuliani's court summons claim

Rudy Giuliani was the subject of a swift and comical fact check Monday from the Arizona attorney general who successfully subpoenaed him to appear in court.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes detailed the many ways her office attempted to serve Rudy Giuliani before issuing the court summons at the former New York City mayor's 80th birthday in Florida.

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Alan Dershowitz gets into 'audible exchange' with CNN's Norm Eisen in hush money courtroom

Law professor Alan Dershowitz reportedly exchanged angry words with CNN commentator Norm Eisen at Donald Trump's hush money trial.

NBC reported an "audible exchange" between Eisen and Dershowitz in the courtroom Monday afternoon.

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Lauren Boebert lit up by columnist for Trump suck-up 'to save her phony baloney job'

Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) appearance at Donald Trump's hush money trial in Manhattan last week was trashed by a Colorado columnist who took the embattled Republican lawmaker to task for spending her time in Congress sucking up to the equally embattled former president.

In his column for the Colorado Sun, Mike Litwin lit up the lawmaker and pointed out that family values-touting Boebert felt it was far more important to support Trump who is dealing with the fall-out of having an affair with an adult film star than it was to show up for a recent court hearing for her son Tyler, who is facing criminal charges of his own back home.

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Columnist warns of true meaning behind favorite GOP soundbite

Former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results are the focus of two of the four criminal indictments he is facing — one being prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith for the U.S. Department of Justice and the other by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for the State of Georgia.

And some of Trump's allies are up against criminal charges in an election interference case being prosecuted by Arizona State Attorney General Kris Mayes, including former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis and ex-Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

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Trump constantly underestimated by his enemies – here's why

Donald Trump routinely defies expectations because his critics consistently underestimate him, according to a columnist who watched his attorneys cross examine Michael Cohen during his hush money trial.

Slate jurisprudence editor Jeremy Stahl was in court last week as defense attorney Todd Blanche grilled Cohen over his angry rants against the former president and inconsistencies in his stories about his own criminal culpability, and he said the media seemed unprepared for Trump's attorney to score a victory in his cross examination.

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Ex-prosecutor highlights 'particularly problematic' part of Judge Cannon's new ruling

Judge Aileen Cannon issued an order on Sunday that is particularly bad news for Special Counsel Jack Smith, according to a former prosecutor.

Ex-federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote on her blog over the weekend about Cannon's recent filing, which Vance dubbed an "effort to convince us she really is working after months of foot-dragging." Cannon issued an order on redaction of currently private filings.

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'Not gonna put your flag up': Trump's fans rebel against ex-president's new endorsements

Donald Trump is thought by some analysts to have the supporter retention of a cult leader, but some of his biggest fans are turning against his latest round of congressional endorsements.

Trump went silent on social media for nearly 24 hours. When he broke that streak on Sunday, it wasn't with an attack on prosecutors or a judge. Instead, it was a familiar set of endorsements, which the ex-president's followers have come to expect every couple of weeks.

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