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Legal analyst Elie Honig said Wednesday Special Counsel Jack Smith could resort to the "drastic" measure of requesting Judge Aileen Cannon's removal from Donald Trump’s classified documents case, but one ironic reason might be keeping him back.

Honig spoke with CNN anchor Dana Bash about “one of the big issues” Smith has with the Florida judge overseeing the federal case against the former president: "delay."

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer penned an op-ed for the New York Times Wednesday in which he celebrated the friendship between his fellow judges — who, he said, managed to cut through their political differences.

It wasn't received well.

Navy veteran Ervin Lee Bolling this week allegedly plowed his SUV into the FBI headquarters near Atlanta, Georgia, and Wired reports that he frequently shared conspiracy theories on multiple social media accounts, including some related to QAnon.

Among other things, Bolling reportedly posted shortly after the 2020 presidential election that he was "looking for a good militia to join" and also expressed support for conspiracy theories about the election being "stolen" from former President Donald Trump.

A pivotal argument in former President Donald Trump's defense against federal election interference charges will reach the Supreme Court this month without key support from a conspicuously absent group — his own political party.

That's according to analysis of the presidential immunity claim, which Trump is slated to present to the nation's highest court on April 25, from Punchbowl News' Andrew Desiderio.

Documents related to Donald Trump's $175 million bond were "returned for correction" after his lawyers reportedly forgot to attach a financial statement.

The New York County Supreme Court's electronic filing system showed Wednesday that Trump's "bond/undertaking" had been "returned for correction." Another reporting system listed the document as "rejected."

Two investors have pleaded guilty to an insider trading scheme related to the recent merger involving Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company behind former President Donald Trump's Truth Social media platform.

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said on Wednesday that Michael Shvartsman and Gerald Shvartsman have each pleaded guilty to a single round of securities fraud related to a scheme they concocted to benefit from the merger between Digital World Acquisition Corporation and Trump Media.

Fox News Business host Maria Bartiromo is promoting the thoroughly debunked claim an executive order signed by President Joe Biden allows "illegal immigrants" and "felons" to vote.

Bartiromo, in pushing the false claim Wednesday, told Fox News viewers, "Republicans are warning that there's a Biden order, executive order, which allows illegal immigrants and felons to vote."

A new book is revealing the "drama" and debate Donald Trump had with NBC when he decided to run for president and leave his show "The Apprentice."

Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh's book, “Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass,” drops June 18 and claims to reveal the "untold story" of the former reality star.

Republican pollster and strategist Frank Luntz recently deleted a post from X after the platform issued a "Community Note" on his claim that President Joe Biden snubbed "racially diverse" Milwaukee and instead paid a visit to “predominantly white Green Bay."

“It’s his first Wisconsin appearance in 2 years, so why is Joe Biden going to predominantly white Green Bay rather than more racially diverse Milwaukee or college town Madison?" Luntz wrote in the now-deleted post.

Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo suggested Wednesday that the 2024 election might be "tampered with," even though Fox News agreed to pay out nearly $800 million to Dominion Voting Systems for false election fraud claims its hosts have made in the past.

Bartiromo, whose reporting was a cornerstone of Dominion's defamation case, made the remarks Wednesday during an interview with Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley. A video clip of the TV host was shared on social media.

A convicted Capitol rioter called into a podcast earlier this year in which he downplayed the events of January 6th, 2021 and falsely claimed that he and his fellow rioters "did nothing… we touched a gate."

As reported by CBS News' Scott MacFarlane, Judge Royce Lamberth on Wednesday cited MAGA rioter Taylor Johnatakis' January 2024 appearance on a podcast to cast doubt on the sincerity of the contrition that he had expressed previously to the court.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) publicly demanded the recusal of the New York City judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money case, then faced immediate blowback.

Stefanik took to X Wednesday to throw her support behind Trump and his effort to get Justice Juan Merchan yanked from the case less than two weeks before it is slated to go to trial.