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Justice Department moves to block Trump deposition in Peter Strzok's firing suit

The Department of Justice asked a federal judge to block Donald Trump from being deposed in a wrongful termination suit filed by former FBI agent Peter Strzok.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that Trump couldn't be deposed until Strzok's attorneys had questioned FBI director Christopher Wray, saying he might make the former president's testimony unnecessary, and the Justice Department filed a motion Wednesday asking to block Trump's deposition after Wray was deposed last week, reported ABC News.

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Freedom Caucus member says Marjorie Taylor Greene has been expelled from the group

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is no longer enough of a hardline right-wing lawmaker for the House Freedom Caucus.

Freedom Caucus Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) tells Politico reporter Olivia Beavers that it's his "understanding" that Greene is no longer a member of the caucus after it took a secret vote on her expulsion last month.

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'Be careful': MAGA Republicans warned their holy war against DOJ could tear party apart

The GOP’s battle against the “weaponized” FBI and Department of Justice is threatening to tear the party apart, Politico reported Wednesday.

Moves by the agencies considered by right flank Republicans to be anti-Donald Trump and pro-Joe Biden – including the investigations and indictment of Trump and Hunter Biden’s plea deal for tax evasion – have driven a desire to limit their power.

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'Beware of taking in snakes': Twitter explodes after MTG's anti-immigrant take on France's riots

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted an anti-immigrant response to the riots in France in a tweet Monday – and Twitter exploded.

Greene’s post attributed the social unrest in France over the fatal police shooting of Nahel M., a 17-year-old boy of Algerian descent, to open borders and gun restrictions.

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'More stupid stuff': Ted Lieu shoots down Marjorie Taylor Greene's plan to 'expunge' Trump's impeachment

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is using her latest term to focus on grievance-based policies like an impeachment effort for President Joe Biden. But her latest idea is to have former President Donald Trump's two impeachments expunged. There's no process for such a move, nor has anything ever been attempted in the past.

Her colleague, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), called the idea simply "stupid."

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'Outrageous': Education Secretary blasts Republicans who benefited from student debt relief

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief plan Friday, Secretary of Education Miguel Cordona strongly criticized the hypocrisy of the Republican party's celebration of the decision.

Several GOP leaders publicly praised the court's decision to reject the plan that would have eliminated up to $20,000 in student loan debt for borrowers, including former Vice President Mike Pence.

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Judge smacks down House Republicans’ lawsuit over mask policy fines: report

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled against three GOP House members' lawsuit alleging a now-defunct congressional mask mandate defied "their First Amendment right to free speech and their Twenty-Seventh Amendment entitlement to their salary," The Washington Post reports.

Per the Post, former President Donald Trump appointed Judge Naomi Rao rejected the lawmakers' argument, writing, "We cannot consider the merits of the Representatives' constitutional arguments because their suit concerns legislative acts protected by the Speech or Debate Clause."

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'Off the deep end': Columnist gives a rundown of 'looney tunes behavior going on day after day' in Congress

The U.S. House of Representatives has been even crazier than expected since Republicans took back the majority in last year's elections, and a columnist laid out the 'looney tunes' details.

Republican-led committees have tried to find evidence that President Joe Biden, his family and his administration are engaged in criminal corruption, and while they haven't turned up any smoking guns themselves they're throwing a fit because Hunter Biden was only given probation on misdemeanor tax charges instead of "being immediately marched off to solitary confinement," wrote Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton.

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Former GOP congressman shames colleagues for taking credit for funding they opposed

After President Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill was signed into law in 2021, the White House says it has distributed around of $42 billion across America to expand internet access to rural and isolated communities and fund roads and bridges, public transit, water infrastructure, power grids, and airports.

Republicans who voted in favor of the bill at the time were attacked by members of their own party. As Newsweek points out, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene even called them "traitors."

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Biden impeachment push expected to 'dominate' Congress agenda for months: report

House Republicans plan to focus the bulk of their agenda on impeaching top Biden administration officials — and maybe even the president himself.

The GOP-led House will hear testimony in the coming months from homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, attorney general Merrick Garland and FBI director Christopher Wray, and they're interested in calling David Weiss, the Donald Trump-appointed U.S. attorney who led the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, reported CNN.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene posts photo of herself rolling up to Capitol carrying high-capacity rifle

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is promoting her podcast with a photoshopped image that shows her pulling up to the U.S. Capitol holding a high-capacity rifle.

The Georgia Republican uses the stylized image as the banner for the Twitter account promoting her "Battleground" podcast.

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'Typical political rhetoric': Insiders privately dismiss GOP promise to overhaul DOJ as empty 'posturing'

With former President Donald Trump facing a 37-count federal criminal prosecution, countless Republicans are claiming that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has been "weaponized" against members of their party. Even Republicans who are running against Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary are making that claim, and they are promising a dramatic overhaul of DOJ if elected president.

But journalist David M. Drucker, in an article published by The Dispatch on June 28, reports that privately, some Republicans are dismissing that promise as right-wing performance art.

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Kevin McCarthy is 'motivated by fear' of 'the circus wing of his party': MSNBC's Jen Psaki

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is being held hostage by fear of his own caucus, former White House Press Secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki argued on Tuesday.

She offered her analysis in a segment discussing McCarthy's endorsement of a far-right resolution that would purportedly "expunge" the two impeachments of former President Donald Trump.

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