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The clock is ticking.

Speaker Mike Johnson now has less than 14 hours to pass his $1.2 trillion "minibus" spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown, It's unclear he has the votes, and the vast far-right portion of the House GOP conference is making it clear they oppose the legislation.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is already making preparations to seize former President Donald Trump's properties in New York's Westchester County as the Monday deadline for him to post bond in the civil fraud judgment draws near.

According to Bloomberg News, "New York state’s $454 million judgment against Donald Trump in a civil fraud lawsuit was formally registered in Westchester County just outside Manhattan, a sign that his properties in the area may be at risk of being seized if the former president fails to post an appeal bond."

In a rare, massively bipartisan vote on Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning Russia's illegal abduction of thousands of children from Ukraine, and holding Russian President Vladimir Putin responsible. The final tally was 390-9. All nine "no" votes were by Republicans.

Sponsored by Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Susan Wild, HR 149, "Condemning the illegal abduction of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation," had been introduced in February of 2023 and made its way to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, where it sat for nearly nine months before being passed unanimously and sent to the full House for a vote. It is symbolic and does not order any funds or any actions.

Legal experts are urging Special Counsel Jack Smith to file for the removal of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, calling her recent order in the Trump Espionage Act/classified documents case "bizarre," "legal inanity," and saying it is an inaccurate interpretation of the law.

Judge Cannon "issued an unusual order late Monday regarding jury instructions at the end of the trial — even though she has not yet ruled on when the trial will be held, or a host of other issues," The Washington Post reports. The paper adds that she "instructed lawyers to file proposed jury instructions by April 2 on two topics that are related to defense motions to have the indictment dismissed outright."

Alina Habba was deliberately excluded from a lawsuit settlement involving Donald Trump and his Bedminster golf club by a former employee who claims the attorney tricked her into silence over sexual harassment claims.

The former president's golf club agreed to pay $82,500 to former waitress Alice Bianco, whose attorney made sure to include a line in the settlement specifically leaving Habba open to a separate lawsuit by the plaintiff, reported The Daily Beast.

Donald Trump's weekend threat of a "bloodbath" if he is not re-elected in November received the bulk of attention from the press and critics, but on Monday morning the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" also made note of his attacks on immigrants and their children.

Speaking in Ohio before a crowd of his rabid fans, the former president ranted about immigrants, stating, "I don’t know if you call them people. In some cases, they’re not people in my opinion. But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say.”

Noting the former president previously claimed, "They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough pointedly remarked that four out of five of Trump's children are the product of his marriages to immigrants Ivana Trump (Don Trump Jr., Ivanka and Eric) and Melania Trump (Barron).

Trump's fifth child, Tiffany, came from his union with Marla Maples. She recently married Lebanese businessman Michael Boulos.

Holding on to his leadership position by the slimmest of margins due to retirements and special election seat losses, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is being forced to warn members of his caucus to "Knock it off" because some of them are interfering in their colleagues' primary campaigns.

According to a report from CNN's Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, the Republican Party lawmaker admitted he is growing frustrated with the civil war within his own party causing him to deal with "member-on-member" attacks that threaten to create even more chaos during his tenure.

Emails sent to an FBI ombudsman by anonymous employees of the Bureau offer a stunning look inside the culture of the nation's top domestic intelligence, security, and law enforcement agency charged with investigating federal crimes.

After the FBI's execution of a lawful search warrant on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort and residence in 2022, some Bureau employees bitterly complained to the ombudsman, who forwarded their anonymous comments to the Bureau's top brass.

A lawyer who represented a couple who lost their 6-year-old son in the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting -- and who successfully sued Alex Jones over the conspiracy theories he spread about the shooting -- took aim at NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers late Wednesday.

Rodgers, known for his anti-vax theories, was revealed by CNN's Pamela Brown to be a Sandy Hook truther, claiming the shooting was part of a government plot and not the result of an attack by Adam Lanza, who also killed his mother before going on his murderous spree.

Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is blocking a vote on the bipartisan legislation the Senate passed four weeks ago to provide Ukraine with critical funding to fight Russian President Vladimir Putin's illegal war against the sovereign nation.

One day after the Senate passed the bill, Speaker Johnson declared to his conference, behind closed doors, the House would not be "rushed" into passing it, according to the Associated Press.

At a rally in Georgia on Saturday night, Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on writer E. Jean Carroll that may hand the New York writer's lawyers reason to file a new lawsuit against him as well as kill the $92 million appeals bond he just posted on Friday.

Appearing with the hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend," legal analyst Lisa Rubin was stunned at the former president creating new problems for himself after the judge in the two trials gave Carroll's attorneys the option of opposing the bond.

"You would think at this point, Lisa Rubin, we would no longer be surprised by his lack of discipline. But the thing we kept coming back to when this sum was ordered, is this number big enough to make him stop? We now have an answer," co-host Alicia Menedez prompted the analyst.

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"You're right we do have an answer," Rubin replied. "It was enough to make him stop until he was past a point that the judge could no longer order more, have any further consequences for it. I mean, I'm struck by the fact, Alicia, he said these things the night after he posted a bond, filed his notice of appeal the judge has long past finalized."

"Should E. Jean Carroll and her team want any further relief now their only option is to file another case," she added. "The punitive damage was as great as it was because Donald Trump kept saying it after the initial judgment. The argument they made was that he was not deterred by the first award, and in fact, continued to say it again and again and again."

Asked "What is E. Jean Carroll's recourse now?" she replied, "You know, I wish I could get into their heads right now. I think her recourse here is to sue again or at the very least to oppose the bond, which is an option that Judge [Lewis] Kaplan gave them. Judge Kaplan said if they want to oppose the bond in any respect, they have until Monday. That's tomorrow, at 11:00. If they do oppose it, it will be in Manhattan federal court."

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Department of Justice employees are raising questions about a massive investigation into tax avoidance by heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar that fell apart after Donald Trump appointed Bill Barr to be his Attorney General.

According to a report from the New York Times, the DOJ was working hand in hand with the IRS on an extensive criminal investigation of the company only to be blocked from interviewing a key witness that helped cause the case to fizzle.