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Legal experts argue that the efforts to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting former President Donald Trump on election racketeering charges effectively died in the water Tuesday.

This response came after Terrence Bradley, the former divorce lawyer for Nathan Wade, took the stand in an evidentiary hearing to discuss the parameters of his admitted personal relationship with Willis.

U.S. Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) is going after Jim Jordan, alleging the House Republican Judiciary Chair is "conspiring" with Russian President Vladimir Putin after posting a lengthy 2477 word diatribe that includes the thoroughly debunked "Burisma" claims even after the source of those claims, now-indicted former FBI source Alexander Smirnov, acknowledged it was propaganda fed to him from Kremlin officials.

"There are too many false statements in this fiction novel to address here, but it’s shocking that @Jim_Jordan continues to promote the Burisma hoax even after he learned that it was falsely peddled by Putin," charged Congressman Goldman, an attorney and former federal prosecutor.

A Russia-based ransomware gang says it will publish pilfered Fulton County data — which includes documents tied to former President Donald Trump's court case — unless it is paid a ransom, according to a new report from the Register.

LockBit's threat could also involve a "total leak" of the Fulton County data that would put various cases and sources at risk, according to the report.

Critics are blasting CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, as the embattled head of the organization that puts together and hosts the event, Matt Schlapp, is attacking NBC News over its report that states: "Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies."

"Nazis appeared to find a friendly reception at the Conservative Political Action Conference this year," writes Ben Goggin, NBC News Digital deputy editor for technology. "Throughout the conference, racist extremists, some of whom had secured official CPAC badges, openly mingled with conference attendees and espoused antisemitic conspiracy theories."

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan grilled Florida solicitor Henry Whitaker over laws that would prevent social media companies from taking down objectionable content during oral arguments at the Court on Monday.

Florida and Texas have passed laws that limit what content social media companies can remove from their sites. Their laws are under review by the Court.

According to psychologist Dr. John Gartner, formerly of Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Donald Trump's slurring and inability to sometimes formulate complete sentences appears to be a sign of growing dementia and possibly early stages of Alzheimer’s.

In an interview with Salon's Chauncey DeVega, Gartner bluntly stated the former president is "showing gross signs of dementia" and fellow experts are not pointing out the warning signs nearly enough.

Gartner, who has been warning about Trump's diminishing mental capacity since contributing to the 2017 book, "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President," asserted the former president is becoming more dangerous by the day and the closer he gets to returning to the Oval Office.

After telling Salon's DeVega, "There is also this focus on [President Joe] Biden's gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging. By comparison, Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing," he was asked for evidence.

The re-arrest of Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI informant who allegedly may have provided House Republicans with Kremlin propaganda that was the basis for their efforts to impeach President Joe Biden and attack his son Hunter, raised some eyebrows on Thursday.

Smirnov, once considered House Republicans' Jim Comer and Jim Jordan's star witness, was re-arrested even after a magistrate judge ordered him released, and at his attorneys' offices, raising eyebrows from even national security experts, insisting there had better be a good reason for it.

Legal and political experts are responding to Special Counsel David Weiss' allegations that a former top FBI informant, now under federal indictment, had, as one reporter explained, "high-level contact with Russian intelligence operatives," and fed Republicans falsehoods from the Kremlin which they used to attack the Biden family and to try to build a case to impeach President Joe Biden.

"How many intel and legal findings and counter-espionage cases before people are willing to accept that the entire MAGA movement is a Russian intel op?" asks David Rothkopf, the noted foreign policy, national security, and political affairs analyst and author.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was fact-checked on live TV Wednesday after refusing to back away from allegations against President Joe Biden that apparently originated with Russian intelligence.

So-called whistleblower Alexander Smirnov was last week arrested and accused of lying to the FBI about Hunter Biden, and he admitted to investigators that he fed Republican lawmakers information that came from officials associated with Russian intelligence. But Jordan insisted to CNN's Manu Raju that the evidence for impeachment had not changed in light of those facts.

Many Republicans in Colorado's Fourth Congressional District aren't exactly rolling out the welcome mat for Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO).

Boebert is facing major skepticism from residents in her new district despite the fact that it's even more conservative politically than the district she previously served.

Donald Trump's court losses and recent comments about international relations if he is re-elected are making if difficult for him to woo back some billionaire campaign donors as he makes his third run for the Oval Office.

According to a report from Chris McGreal in the Guardian, the former president is seeing some donors who have been avoiding him since his 2020 election loss that was followed by the Jan. 6 insurrection returning to the fold because his nomination seems inevitable — but others are not so sure.

Legal experts are stunned by many of the revelations in Friday's 92-page New York civil fraud trial ruling fining Donald Trump and his executives $364 million, and barring him from running a business in New York for three years.

Some are pointing to portions of the actual ruling, while others are expressing shock at the magnitude of the judgment and its implications for not only the former president and his real estate empire but for the future of the nation.