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Justice Clarence Thomas is coming under fire after his wife, Ginni Thomas, was revealed to have been texting with Donald Trump's chief of staff about overturning the 2020 election. The conservative judge was the single person on the High Court to dissent in the order rejecting Trump's efforts to hold back documents from the Jan. 6 probes.

In wake of the news, there has been an increase in demands for Thomas to be sanctioned or investigated and required to recuse himself on anything involving Jan. 6, 2021, or the 2020 election. The news comes at a time when the Supreme Court is at a historic low approval rating and public opinion polls show American believe it is too political.

Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi explained to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace how the Department of Justice likely reacted when a federal judge issued a ruling stating that former President Donald Trump likely committed a felony.

Specifically, Figliuzzi described everything stopping at the Justice Department and the FBI when a well-respected, long-time federal judge says something akin to what U.S. District Judge David Carter did on Monday.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) revealed that Washington, D.C.'s world of elected officials consists of 60 and 70-year-old elected officials inviting him to sex parties and snorting cocaine.

"The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington, I mean being kind of a young guy in Washington with the average age of probably 60 or 70," said Cawthorn. "And I look at all these people, a lot of them that I, you know, I've looked up to through my life. I've always paid attention to politics guys that, you know, then all of the sudden you get invited to like, well, hey, we're going to have kind of a sexual get together at one of our homes. You should come there, like... What, what did you just ask me to come to? And then you realize they're asking you to come to an orgy. Or the fact that, you know, there's some of the people that are leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country and then you watch them doing, you know, a key bump of cocaine right in front of you and it's like wow this is wild."

"Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver summed up the confirmation hearing of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson with a super-cut of the most "bat-sh*t" questions made by Republicans in the past week.

Among the worst, in his mind, was Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who was so proud of himself and his bizarre questions misquoting children's books.

Truck company owners and far-right activists drove to Washington to make a stand over the course of the last three weeks and it hasn't gone as well as they anticipated. While some had car trouble, others faced tickets for traffic violations and violence broke out. Some of them even started getting sick with COVID-like symptoms. All of them, however, earned the ire and mockery of the tristate area of Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.

It has now been announced that the convoy is giving up, the Daily Beast reported Sunday.

Former President Donald Trump gave his blessing to Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) after Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was removed from the House Republican leadership. But, behind closed doors, Stefanik was trashing Trump.

In Jan. 2022, Trump welcomed Stefanik to Mar-a-Lago and showered her with praise, even going so far as to say that in six years, she could become the first female president of the United States.

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and what led to it will vote on whether to hold Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino Jr. in contempt of Congress for refusing to appear after being subpoenaed.

On Sunday evening, the committee released the case it intends to present to the full Congress about the two men and the details that they could provide to the committee.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) was ridiculed this week for tweeting out a quote from the Declaration of Independence that she claimed was in the Constitution.

While there was ridicule online for her ignorance, CNN host Jim Acosta addressed her tweet as part of his Sunday commentary about the poor behavior by Republicans in the Senate Judiciary hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court.

One improvisational line in President Joe Biden's Saturday speech in Poland brought criticisms from the right on the Sunday morning news shows. The Fox network hosts were disgusted to see Biden refer to Vladimir Putin as a "butcher" for killing at least 2,909 people, including children, according to the United Nations human rights office on Sunday. Meanwhile, Russia has kidnaped and removed over 2,000 children from Mariupol over the past weeks, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Writing for USA Today, Jill Lawrence explained that Biden’s comment might end up being a good thing. "After all, we are all thinking exactly the same," she explained.

President Donald Trump is desperately trying to convince people that his crowd size is larger than it was, again. The bizarre obsession dates back to Trump's 2017 inauguration, in which Trump forced his staff to tell the press that the crowd was the largest in history.

Former press secretary refused to do it, instead, saying he would go on to say that it was the largest crowd in history "both in-person and online." Trump's was the first inauguration in the U.S. where video streaming is prevalent. While the technology existed previously, it wasn't widely available or used on all social media platforms in the past, while in 2016 it was.

A Washington Post report revealed that Tesla CEO Elon Musk became so irate after he learned auto regulators were investigating the software that led to a 2016 crash when the "driver-assistance" software crashed into a tractor-trailer going 70 mph.

California prosecutors also filed charges against Tesla and the driver with two counts of vehicular manslaughter. In the 2019 incident, the autopilot ran a red light, hitting a car that killed two people.

Former President Donald Trump announced that he was withdrawing his endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), who is running for U.S. Senate in Alabama. Brooks, who is running behind in the polls, evidently angered Trump when he refused to declare Trump won the 2020 election.

In a shocking statement, Brooks responded to Trump's release revealing the personal conversations that he had with Trump, in which the former president directly told him to overrule the election and hold another vote. Brooks, a lawyer, would know that this directly links Trump to an effort to overthrow the election.

Illinois Democrat Junaid Ahmed, who is running for the 8th Congressional District, announced on Twitter that his campaign staff has been hacked. Ahmed running in the Democratic primary, challenging Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), though the district is subject to change due to redistricting.

"Disappointed to report that several of my senior staff members' accounts were hacked," he said in a statement. "We're investigating the intrusion and will report back soon. For now, can we all agree that there is no room for cyberattacks in Illinois politics?"