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Former President Donald Trump is increasingly comparing himself to Alphonse Capone, the infamous 1920s Chicago mob boss who was ultimately brought down for tax evasion. But he might want to be careful about that comparison, wrote columnist Michael Vogel for The Palm Beach Post.

Vogel particularly focused on a post Trump made to Truth Social at the start of the year, in which he said, “because of weaponization, targeting and unprecedented harassment, I have more lawyers working for me on this corrupt law enforcement-induced Bull… than any human being in the history of our country, including the late, great gangster, Alphonse Capone!”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Tuesday dialed up pressure on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca.) to initiate impeachment proceedings against Joe Biden.

In a social media post, the far-right lawmaker referenced concessions he extracted from McCarthy in Jan. 2023, during his grueling effort to win the speakership.

Still’s lawyers argued in court filings, “In that role, Mr. Still was, or was acting under, an officer of the United States.”

State electors are so-called because they are electors for each state.

Former FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann predicted that the suit against Donald Trump's candidacy will likely end up in the Supreme Court.

The issue is something that conservative former Judge Michael Luttig and Harvard Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe wrote for The Atlantic last month that the 14th Amendment should bar the former president from office.

Longtime Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years for his role in the seditious conspiracy to stop the electoral count — the longest sentence handed down yet for any of the January 6 defendants. But that's not enough, argued former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on MSNBC Tuesday.

Tarrio already received a harsher sentence than even U.S. defector to the "Taliban American" John Walker Lindh — however, argued McCabe, he was essentially a domestic terrorist leader, and so should have been sentenced as such.

Donald Trump on Tuesday took aim at the Jan. 6 House select committee, which the former president in his latest social media rant accused of improperly deleting and destroying evidence.

Trump suggested in a Truth Social post that “Deranged Jack Smith” should be "investigating the political Hacks & Thugs of the highly partisan January 6th Unselect Committee for tampering with, deleting, and destroying highly Confidential & Classified documents, pictures, tapes, evidence, and all forms of other important information."

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly considered terrorism enhancements, former prosecutor David Kelley said of the sentence for former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio.

Speaking to MSNBC's Ari Melber on Tuesday, Kelley explained that the government was asking for 33 years, so Tarrio's 22 years is still under the request. It is the highest sentence of any Jan. 6 insurrectionists yet.

Trial attorney Misty Marris explained to CNN the shocking nature of the new allegations of misconduct in the trial of disgraced former South Carolina attorney and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh on Tuesday.

Attorneys for Murdaugh, who was convicted of shooting his wife and son earlier this year, are alleging that a court clerk manipulated jurors in an attempt to sell her book — which they say is grounds for a mistrial.

A federal judge on Tuesday handed Donald Trump a legal win in the Jan. 6 election conspiracy case.

Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled in Trump’s favor after his lawyers argued for an emergency motion to vacate a motion filed by special counsel Jack Smith.

The lead investigator for the House Select Committee that's investigating attempts to overthrow the 2020 election result thinks special counsel Jack Smith is now examining attempts to make money off the fraud.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, Tim Heaphy related suspected financial dealings based on claims that the election was stolen to an operation that was selling snake oil.

Senior Vox correspondent Ian Millhiser is sounding the alarm about the battle Republicans in Wisconsin have taken up attempting to remove a member of the state Supreme Court elected by the people. If that happens, the state becomes an oligarchy, he said.

Millhiser, who covers the legal beat, explained that over the past ten years, the state has been gerrymandered so severely that it has become impossible for a Democratic majority to be elected in the state House, despite having the majority everywhere else. Now that there is a progressive majority in the state Supreme Court, however, a challenge to the maps is going to be decided and Republicans are furious.

Donald Trump has been fantasizing on his social media site again. This time he is dreaming about what he will do to President Joe Biden if he takes it back in 2024.

"The Crooked Joe Biden Campaign has thrown so many Indictments and lawsuits against me that Republicans are already thinking about what we are going to do to Biden and the Communists when it’s our turn. They have started a whole new Banana Republic way of thinking about political campaigns. So cheap and dirty, but that’s where America is right now. Be careful what you wish for!" Trump wrote on Sunday evening.