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Joe Scarborough Wednesday morning called out conservatives for obsessing over the leak of a draft Supreme Court ruling, when the real story is that the ruling itself would take away rights from tens of millions of American women.

Addressing the leak, Scarborough said that whoever gave the draft to reporters should be disbarred and prosecuted, though he also dismissed the absurdity of some of the conservative comments blaming liberals on the court for the leak.

One of the many former chiefs of staff to Donald Trump was secretly warning D.C. Republicans that the president could become volatile if he loses the 2020 election.

The new book "This Will Not Pass" by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin details the final months before the election, with Mulvaney being relegated to "a largely ornamental position as special envoy for Northern Ireland."

The new book "This Will Not Pass" details some of the conversations between Donald Trump and House and Senate strategists. According to the book by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would typically skip over details about Sen. Susan Collins' (R-ME) tight reelection because Trump didn't exactly like her.

"But in several meetings Trump could not resist weighing in with what he might call locker-room talk about Collins’s challenger, Sara Gideon, the telegenic Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives," the book says.

The new book "This Will Not Pass," by New York Times reporters Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, suggests that President Donald Trump's senior adviser Jared Kushner was using rapper Kanye West for political gain.

"The president’s son-in-law possessed limited campaign experience but Tom Brady–like confidence in his political intuition," the book explained. "He had spent some time early in the summer helping goad the rapper Kanye West into an improbable independent run for the presidency. Kushner had personally worked to recruit a campaign manager for West, in a far-fetched scheme he appeared to believe would help siphon Black voters away from Biden. (West ultimately won about seventy-one thousand votes nationwide.)"

House Republicans along with former President Donald Trump have attempted to blame House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for a lack of security on Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump specifically claimed that both Pelosi and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser didn't do enough to prepare for the violent attacks from his supporters.

Monday evening, Politico released the draft decision by Justice Samuel Alito that overturned the precedent set by Roe v. Wade, possibly calling into question rights including access to birth control (Casey) and same-sex marriage (Obergefell). Pro-choice activists are warning that the ban won't eliminate abortions, rather it will eliminate safe abortions, as was recorded in the 1970s before the Roe decision.

The law hasn't yet been overturned, as the draft hasn't been officially published by the Supreme Court. The final documents should be published in June.

The draft of an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked Monday night, showing the legal justifications the Supreme Court intends to use to block abortion in half of the United States.

Columbia Journalism School professor Emily Bell cited an excerpt from the opinion in which Alito mentions 17th century judge Sir Matthew Hale as he sought to make the case that justices misinterpreted history in their Roe v Wade decision.

Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis has been working with the special grand jury in the voter fraud case involving former President Donald Trump. According to an announcement from her office Monday, however, Willis is also turning her eye to the fake electors who attempted to defraud the government with documents meant to cause confusion in the Electoral College count.

"We're going to look at anything connected with interference with the 2020 election," Willis told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "I've allowed that to be a broad scope, not just the (former) President's phone call that you played there but other things that indicate that there may have been interference with that election, to include fake electorates."

The recent announcement that the Supreme Court was poised to overturn abortion rights in the US came after most late-night comedy shows taped their episodes. Such was the case with Seth Meyers, who dedicated his "Closer Look" segment to the latest in what he declared "the party of weirdos."

"As we have established, one of the things Trump did for the modern GOP is he weird-a-fied it," explained Meyers. "He unleashed his army of mafia bobble-head goons and freaks and now the Republican Party is an institution just filled with weirdos obsessed with things like cocaine-fueled orgies, Disney erotica, and testicle tanning."

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday evening, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) responded to a leaked Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade. According to Raskin, a Constitutional lawyer, this is a 'full-on example of The Handmaid's Tale," the notorious novel, written by Margaret Atwood, that describes a dystopian world in which women are forced to give birth by the state.

"The basic legal claim here is that the word 'abortion' doesn't appear in the Constitution, and of course, it doesn't appear in the Constitution, but the Supreme Court, in 1973, in Roe vs. Wade or Griswold vs. Connecticut, which was a 1965 decision by the Supreme Court striking down a law banning birth control, even for married couples in Connecticut," Raskin explained. "The Supreme Court said that the due process liberty clause includes a right to privacy, over into intimate decision-making. So, the point is that Justice [Samuel] Alito's decision would apply also, presumably, to the right to privacy in contraception."

Politico is reporting that the Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights.

Alito, in his draft majority opinion, says very clearly that he is seeking to overturn the Roe and Casey court decisions.

This newly released book This Will Not Pass, by New York Times reporters Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, revealed that Washington state Republican Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse did more than initially known about Donald Trump's attempts to overthrow the 2020 election.

The Seattle Times quoted the book's revelations that after the former president directed his supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol, where they then went on a full attack, Newhouse brought up invoking the 25th Amendment. The law allows the Cabinet to remove the president if they believe he is mentally incapacitated. It was part of the conversation happening among not only the House caucus, but also among then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

NBC News reporter Tom Winter reported Monday afternoon that former President Donald Trump is asking the New York State appeals court to stay the fine he's being issued daily for refusing to comply with a subpoena.

Trump fought a subpoena to hand over documents involving his business practices as part of the investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Ultimately, a judge decided that Trump must comply and that for each day he refused he would be issued a contempt fine of $10,000.