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As the Supreme Court winds down its latest session, court observers have noticed increasing tension and weariness as the divisions among the justices increasingly become more apparent in their written opinions.

According to a report from CNN's longtime Supreme Court correspondent Joan Biskupiuc, recent hearings have gone on twice as long as usual as several justices have shown signs of exasperation with each other on a court that has a 6-3 conservative majority.

Revelations over the past week that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew flags associated with the January 6 insurrection and the far-right Christian nationalist movement at not one but two of his homes have drawn tremendous outrage, and heightened demands that Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) hold hearings on the jurist, and pass legislation to reform the Court.

Chairman Durbin, first elected to Congress in 1982, has focused his attention on ensuring President Joe Biden's judicial nominees are confirmed. Wednesday morning he celebrated confirming 200 judges nominated by President Biden to the federal bench.

Reacting to a new report that Justice Samuel Alito displayed another flag associated with the Jan. 6 insurrection flying at his beach vacation home, CNN's Van Jones pounced on the controversial conservative justice for his casual disregard for observing ethical decorum.

On Thursday morning, Jones spoke with CNN host Jim Acosta and was asked about the “Appeal to Heaven” flag Alito and his wife put on display after trying to dismiss the upside-down American flag they flew at their primary home.

Laurence Tribe, a top constitutional expert, is suggesting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's actions may be "close to treason," after the jurist flew flags associated with the January 6 insurrection and the far-right Christian nationalist movement at two of his homes.

Professor Tribe alleged Justice Alito may have committed impeachable offenses, including "giving aid and comfort to an insurrection against the Constitution of the United States, which is close to treason," he said in his Wednesday interview on the MeidasTouch Network (video below). He also called for a "serious investigation" by the U.S. Senate into Alito, who "has been contemptuous for quite a while." He added, "it's about time that he be held to account."

With Donald Trump's 34-felony-count hush money trial on pause until after the Memorial Day weekend, a panel of Politico correspondents who have been sitting through the proceedings were asked where they see the trial heading, with one legal analyst suggesting a guilty conviction could hinge on what he termed one "amazing document."

According to Politico's Josh Gerstein, the testimony of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen may play less of a factor with the jury than the documents presented to the jury showing the money trail that led to adult film star Stormy Daniels being paid off before the 2016 presidential election.

One of the nation's top constitutional scholars has issued a strong warning that the GOP will be working to overturn one of the most consequential, landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions in modern American history. Griswold v. Connecticut established the precedent for the right to privacy, laying the foundation for the right to contraception, abortion, same-sex intimate relationships, and same-sex marriage.

Two years ago next month, the right-wing justices on the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v.Wade, which for nearly 50 years had established the constitutional right to abortion. In his concurring opinion, embattled Justice Clarence Thomas issued a call for cases to be brought before the nation's highest court, declaring that rulings that had also established the rights to contraception and same-sex marriage were, in his opinion, wrongly-decided. Justice Thomas declared the Court “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell” — making clear he wanted the Court to overturn those rulings, and by doing so, strike down the constitutional rights to contraception, same-sex intimacy, and same-sex marriage.

Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson predicted a new film about Donald Trump's early years would "drive him out of his mind."

Trump's campaign has already called "The Apprentice," a film about the former president in the 1980s, "pure garbage."

An unnamed witness, reportedly an adviser to Donald Trump, scanned the contents of a box that had contained classified documents, and saved those digital files to her laptop, which belongs to a political action committee which pays Donald Trump's legal expenses.

The stunning revelation was tucked away in the footnote of an 87-page court document unsealed by U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Tuesday, in response to a separate filing in which Trump's attorneys are claiming prosecutorial misconduct, according to Politico's Kyle Cheney who reported the details.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) enjoyed a major victory when lawmakers — including a long list of Democrats — decisively voted down Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) proposal to oust him from his position. It remains to be seen whether Republicans will keep or lose their small House majority in the November elections, but for now, Johnson's speakership appears to be safe.

However, Johnson is still facing his share of challenges.

Political experts, historians, and scholars of fascism are sounding the alarm after Donald Trump posted video Monday afternoon that promised a "unified Reich," once again echoing language used by Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.

"Trump’s continued use of Nazi rhetoric is un-American and despicable. Yet too many Americans are brushing off the glaring red flags about what could happen if he returns to the White House," former Trump White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews warned. "When someone shows you who they are, believe them."

Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) appearance at Donald Trump's hush money trial in Manhattan last week was trashed by a Colorado columnist who took the embattled Republican lawmaker to task for spending her time in Congress sucking up to the equally embattled former president.

In his column for the Colorado Sun, Mike Litwin lit up the lawmaker and pointed out that family values-touting Boebert felt it was far more important to support Trump who is dealing with the fall-out of having an affair with an adult film star than it was to show up for a recent court hearing for her son Tyler, who is facing criminal charges of his own back home.

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have no choice but to observe federal law and recuse themselves from cases involving the 2020 presidential election, according to an attorney who served as a federal prosecutor for 30 years, while a noted constitutional law expert is warning Justice Alito “may be responsible for delaying” the Court's decision on Donald Trump's claims of absolute immunity.

Their remarks come as Americans are waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to issue its decision on Donald Trump's claim of absolute and total immunity from prosecution.

An admission by former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen that he absconded with $30,000 belonging to the Trump Organization led Trump Org executive Eric Trump to run to X and post about it.

That, in turn, led some commenters to remind him of his own sordid history of financial malfeasance and the Trump Org's history of stiffing vendors.