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In a triumph of family over politics, Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), a loyal ally of President Donald Trump in the Senate, is endorsing his wife for a key state education special election — even though she's a Democrat.

Susanne Shore, the former first lady of Nebraska when Ricketts served as governor, is running for the Omaha-based district of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, which oversees the largest public university system in the state.

A British royal watcher explained the significance of the royal family's reaction to the arrest of the former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Police arrested Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his remaining royal titles last year, on suspicion of misconduct in public office, likely related to his longtime friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and British TV broadcaster Bidisha Mamata told "CNN This Morning" that the ex-prince's family has seemingly cut off all remaining ties to him.

Since President Donald Trump has taken office, over 100 federal cases have been filed about violent threats made against public officials, according to CBS News — including numerous federal judges.

Frequent targets for this hate are judges who have ruled against Trump on various issues — one being U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Seattle-based jurist appointed by former President Ronald Reagan who ruled against Trump's executive order rewriting the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship protections.

MS NOW's Joe Scarborough slammed Republican lawmakers on Thursday for their ongoing obfuscation of President Donald Trump's involvement with the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case — an issue laid clearer by their absence from this week's deposition of Epstein-linked billionaire Les Wexner.

"The Republican members of that committee, not even turning up to the deposition," noted panelist and British journalist Katty Kay.

Reacting to the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the United Kingdom, presumably over his involvement with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough went on an extended rant aimed at Attorney General Pam Bondi for her inaction after having the Epstein files for months.

With King Charles throwing his support behind British law enforcement after the arrest of his younger brother, co-host Joe Scarborough exclaimed, “I mean, imagine what's in those documents that are being held by Pam Bondi, who wouldn't even turn around and look at the women who said they're victims, wouldn't even look at them? Do we trust Pam Bondi to give Americans information that would be negative to Republicans, to her boss, to other people in the administration?”

CNN's John Berman was chilled by King Charles' official statement following the arrest of his brother, the former Prince Andrew, following new revelations of his close ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The king had stripped his younger brother of his remaining royal titles in October and he was stripped of his final honorary military rank of vice admiral in December, and he was forced to vacate his longtime home in the Royal Lodge earlier this month, and he was arrested Thursday morning on his 66th birthday.

The harsh reality that Donald Trump’s campaign to get his critics charged and jailed has failed is sinking in at the White House after US Attorney Jeanine Pirro has stepped away from a possible prosecution of six Congressional Democrats.

Following a segment with the New York Times’ Michael Schmidt on Pirro’s latest failure to obtain an indictment, “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough said that court losses are starting to mount up now after an approximately six-month period of easy administration wins.