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A House Republican is calling on her colleagues to use an archaic law they don't understand to arrest Attorney General Merrick Garland and hold him in custody, according to a new report.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) intends to use "inherent contempt" on Garland as tensions mount over House Republicans' failed efforts to lay hands on recordings of special counsel Robert Hur's interview with President Joe Biden, Politico reported Monday.

A new Republican candidate has been accused of lying about his military service in Vietnam, the Navajo County GOP said in a letter released on Sunday. It wants him to drop out of he race.

Rolling Stone reported that the letter claims Steve Slaton provided an “altered DD-214 claiming combat veteran status and showing qualifications and awards which you have not earned.”

Donald Trump's lawyers are in a Florida courtroom Monday as they continue to battle against special counsel Jack Smith in the documents theft case.

Among the claims by Trump lawyer Emil Bove is that Smith has no real authority over the case because he wasn't confirmed by Congress. It's a similar argument that was played out in Richard Nixon's case and in Robert Mueller's appointment in the Russia probe.

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) wants to eliminate work requirements that protect firefighters and emergency medical responders, Bloomberg Law wrote Monday.

Foxx is fighting regulations from Labor Secretary Julie Su that require training standards and rules aimed at safeguarding the first responders.

A controversial campaign promise from former President Donald Trump is little more than a sly plot to benefit corporations under the guise of supporting the working class, a Harvard University professor argued Monday.

Trump's pledge to exempt tips from federal income tax could destroy full-time jobs and force workers into tipped positions vulnerable to exploitative employers and customers with the right to withhold the bulk of their pay, Sharon Block, executive director of Harvard Law's Center for Labor and a Just Economy, argued in an MSNBC op-ed Monday.

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will consider state laws blocking gender-affirming care in young people.

The High Cout announced that it will address challenges to the Tennessee law that bans puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery for minors, NBC revealed in breaking news.

It has been less than a year since Teamsters Union President Sean O'Brien almost got into a fistfight with Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullen (OK). Now Donald Trump is celebrating the labor leader coming to the Republican National Convention.

Axios reported earlier in June that O'Brien was fishing for a speaking slot at the big GOP event. Trump announced on Friday that O'Brien will join the Republicans.

Ex-Donald Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon is headed to prison — and his single chance to avoid his fate is to beg the Supreme Court to save him.

But a judge in a lower appeals court that rejected his attempts to avoid incarceration has handed him a glimmer of hope.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's new court filing that urges an appeals court to extend Donald Trump's gag order gave terrifying details Friday of new threats against prosecutors.

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin said the latest warnings include “bomb threats at the homes of two people involved in this case" on the first day of the trial, as well as online threats against the D.A. and those working in his office.

Students, staff and activists that occupied university offices at Columbia to protest the war against Hamas appeared in court on Thursday only to have many of the charges dropped against them.

Of the 46 people arrested for occupying Hamilton Hall on the university campus, 31 had charges dropped, NBC News reported.