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A former Wall Street Journal columnist finds special counsel Jack Smith's proposal to issue a "narrow" gag order for Donald Trump "laughable."

In a Washington Post column, conservative Jason Willick calls Smith's "halfhearted" concern for the former president's First Amendment rights as he requests the court control of Trump's outbursts as "laughable," saying the special prosecutor wants to shut down Trump's "ability to criticize the criminal case against him for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss."

Mark Meadows and his legal team filed a brief complaining that District Attorney Fani Willis is making his attempts to move his case to federal court "unnecessarily complicated."

Georgia Public Radio's Stephen Fowler posted a link to a court filing in which Meadows argues that he's not just any random person employed in a federal capacity – he was working for the president.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow assailed Donald Trump's supporters who continue to attempt to overthrow American democracy and election through intimidation.

At the top of her Monday show, Maddow attacked North Carolina for the Republican efforts to take over the election boards to influence the votes. She cited election laws being restricted in Texas, and MAGA attacks on election workers. It's a continuation of what unfolded in 2020 and on Jan. 6.

Former senior prosecutor to special counsel Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, pointed to a piece of Donald Trump's recent interview on "Meet the Press" that isn't getting as much attention as his claim that he wasn't listening to his lawyers after all.

Speaking to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Monday evening, Weissmann pointed to Trump's admission that he "knew by 10 o'clock the night of the election" that it was over. Weissmann looked back at Trump's actions at 10 p.m. on Nov. 3, 2020.

Former President Donald Trump torched his best defense in the election cases against him when he told NBC's Kristen Welker that he doesn't respect his own attorneys and followed his own instincts when he tried to overturn the vote.

Retired Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe elaborated on the legal bungle in a discussion with CNN's Anderson Cooper.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy told his caucus on Monday that they run the risk of alienating Americans with their budget battle if a government shutdown unfolds.

"If you shut down [the government], you really cede the power to the government," McCarthy said, referring to President Joe Biden as the government while speaking on “The Truth with Lisa Boothe."

Former President Donald Trump's close ally Rudy Giuliani is being sued by his lawyer, Robert Costello, for $1.36 million in unpaid legal fees, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin reported on Monday.

The lawsuit was filed in the Supreme Court of New York for Manhattan.

Donald Trump is facing a demand for a limited gag order in the federal case over the 2020 election and Jan. 6 after a filing from special counsel Jack Smith.

The recently unsealed motion hasn't been discussed in court yet, but it goes through many of Trump's attacks on Smith, prosecutors, the judge, witnesses and more in his effort to intimidate them or influence the jury.

He started out as the host of a reality show and has soared to internet fame on YouTube and Rumble where he makes bank off of conspiracy theories.

Wired explains it: the grift of Russell Brand is strong.

Former Justice Department Civil Division head Jeffrey Clark, who is accused of helping Trump try to force states to delay certification of the 2020 presidential election under false pretenses, is almost certain to fail in his bid to get his charges in the Georgia election racketeering case removed to federal court.

That's the view of former federal prosecutor Elie Honig, who explained to CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday why this case is even weaker than the removal bid by another associate of former President Donald Trump that was already rejected earlier this month.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted and reinstated to his office after a contentious, Republican-controlled impeachment trial where state House investigators detailed the evidence he abused his office to trade political favors, handed a job to a woman he was having an affair with, and fired whistleblowers.

Former President Donald Trump was quick to claim credit for helping his longtime ally avoid conviction, and reports suggest key GOP state senators were threatened with campaigns to oust them from office if they didn't toe the line to protect Paxton.

TMZ chased up to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) to ask about the groping incident in Denver at the Beetlejuice musical.

Bobert had previously said that the incident was really a misunderstanding due to her "overtly animated personality." That was before a video was released showing Boebert and her date groping each other in the theatre.