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Republicans whipping up a bill to bump former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial to federal court are wasting their time, a former federal prosecutor argued Sunday.

Renato Mariotti, formerly of the U.S. Attorney's office in Northern Illinois, appeared on MSNBC Sunday to throw cold water on Republicans' latest plans to challenge Trump's criminal conviction with a bill that would take the case away from New York state's criminal court.

Far-right Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is fresh from being overturned at the Supreme Court for trying to bring down the Food and Drug Administration's process for approving drugs. Now, he's looking at regulations on energy-efficient dishwashers and washing machines.

Reuters reported Friday that a conservative group in Texas is suing the Department of Energy for its standards involving the appliances, saying that President Joe Biden's "administration lacked authority to adopt the regulations."

In a new review of Ramin Setoodeh's book "Apprentice in Wonderland," Washington Post critic Ron Charles describes Trump as something of an old woman wandering about life reliving the glory days.

Amid the old stories of seasons of "The Apprentice," perceived foes, great wins, and his own "genius," Trump is described as Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens' 1861 novel "Great Expectations."

A mysterious group purporting to be a legitimate political organization is funding the campaigns of long-shot conservative candidates — then vanishing into thin air, according to a new report.

The fake grassroots organization Patriots Run Project has been sending cash to right-wing recruits behind a masquerade of Facebook posts and a mailing address traced back to a UPS store in Washington, Politico reported Friday.

Whether or not the Supreme Court gives Donald Trump absolute presidential immunity, the ex-president has already scored a big win in his case.

The Supreme Court added Friday, June 14 to its ruling calendar, as America waits to see if former President Trump is granted full immunity from his two federal indictments. But the decisions published Friday didn't deliver on that case, which leaves June 20 and 27 as the final days the Court has to publish a decision on the matter.

An earlier version of this story incorrectly quoted Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The error has been corrected

The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a ban on bump stocks, which was a Trump-era regulation that banned add-ons to firearms that increased their firing rates to those of machine guns.

The Supreme Court legalized Bump stocks on Friday in a landmark ruling.

Bump stocks are devices that modify a semi-automatic rifle and ultimately turn it into a rapid-firing one.

Naps, bankruptcies, business failures, impeachments, lawsuits, scandals, election losses and criminal charges: Former President Donald Trump has one such "accomplishment" for every year of his life, according to President Joe Biden.

And Biden should know — he counted.

A super-cut of Republican lawmakers attacking Donald Trump began Thursday's episode of "Deadline White House."

"All those people are engaged in a project to make you think that we're crazy," said host Nicolle Wallace. "They said those things. They said those things. And then they fell into line. Democrats, for their part, today welcomed Trump to Capitol Hill in a very different way."