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Former President Donald Trump’s attorney argued Thursday his Georgia election racketeering case should be dismissed because, as the prosecutors summarized it, “he lied over and over and over again.”

It was a flabbergasted state attorney Donald Wakeford who spoke out against the First Amendment challenge brought by Trump lawyer Steve Sadow, who argued that the case should be dropped because it attempted to criminalize free speech, and cited the false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen as proof.

Former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney took aim at the U.S. Supreme Court and warned the justices to move quickly in their consideration of Donald Trump's claims of presidential immunity in regards to criminal charges that he interfered in the 2020 election.

Trump's legal team will go before the Supreme Court on April 25 to argue that he's immune from the Jan. 6 charges, which were leveled against the former president last year in special counsel Jack Smith's case in Washington D.C.

Judge Aileen Cannon could hamstring special counsel Jack Smith's case against Donald Trump by unilaterally disqualifying loads of evidence.

The U.S. District Court judge has raised eyebrows over her oversight of the case with rulings that seem to favor the ex-president who appointed her, and a former prosecutor said she could stack the deck against prosecutors by blocking them from using evidence contained in grand jury investigation files transferred from Washington, D.C., to the Florida classified documents case, reported Newsweek.

Ever since she expressed support for the unsuccessful effort to keep Donald Trump off the state ballot for the 2024 election, Colorado's Secretary of State has seen an escalation in violent online threats.

Jena Griswold was brought in as a co-defendant when a group of Colorado residents sued the state to keep Trump off the ballot. Since then, according to a report from Rolling Stone which analyzed data provided by her office, threats targeting her increased by more than 600 percent.

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan ruled Monday that Donald Trump's criminal trial for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's hush money case against the ex-president will begin on April 15.

In a Wednesday filing to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, Trump’s lawyers argued that the April 15 date likely will cause a conflict with the potential start date for his classified documents case trial.

An onslaught of conspiracy theories that followed the Baltimore bridge collapse Tuesday was seen by tens of millions of people — many of whom heard the “absurd” claims before they even heard the facts of what happened, CNN reported Thursday.

“Why? Just why?” anchor John Berman asked. “The absurd, not to mention offensive, alternative reality, devoid of facts, was created as search and rescue efforts were underway.”

Arizona has become a hotbed of election conspiracy theories as it has become a hotly contested swing state thanks to a confluence of factors.

Donald Trump falsely blamed fraud for his loss to Joe Biden in the former Republican stronghold, and so did his ally Kari Lake when she lost her race for governor, and the state's changing political demographics, combined with persistent misinformation that gets little pushback from prominent Republicans, has turned Arizona into a hub of debunked election fraud claims, reported the New York Times.

Michigan State Rep. Matt Maddock this week drew derision when he falsely accused the Gonzaga men's basketball team of being immigrant "invaders."

Writing on Twitter Wednesday night, Maddock posted a photo of a plane landing at the Detroit Metro Airport and then baselessly speculated it was filled with migrants who had been shipped from the southern border up to his state.

California State Bar Judge Yvette Roland on Wednesday ruled that former Donald Trump lawyer John Eastman violated ethics rules when he helped to orchestrate the ex-president's ploy to overturn the 2020 election, Politico reports.

Per the report, "Though Eastman may appeal Roland’s decision, including to the state Supreme Court, the ruling forces his law license into 'inactive' status while any review is pending, meaning he can no longer practice law in California."

Republican Party officials seem to realize that they have put themselves at a major disadvantage when it comes to voting by mail and they've been sending signals that they will do more to encourage mail-in voting in this election cycle.

However, the Washington Post reports that they could have a tough time pulling this off because their presumptive nominee, former President Donald Trump, keeps attacking the practice as vulnerable to fraud despite the fact that there is no evidence to back up this assertion.

Florida-based Aileen Cannon, the Donald Trump-appointed federal judge assigned to special counsel Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago documents prosecution, has been a frequent source of frustration to Trump's critics — some of whom believe she has done everything possible to delay the case and keep it from going to trial.

One of those critics, political and legal blogger Philip Rotner, has been warning that Smith's prosecution won't survive if he doesn't take steps to get Cannon removed from it.

The Rev. Al Sharpton told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he took personal offense to former President Donald Trump hawking $60 Bibles that come stamped with his personal endorsement.

In breaking down Trump's newest money-making venture, which drew widespread ridicule when it was unveiled earlier this week, Sharpton argued that the entire venture was blasphemous to the principles espoused in Christian teachings.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) may wind up pushing House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to do exactly what she doesn't want by challenging his leadership.

The Georgia Republican introduced a motion to vacate last week but hasn't said when she'd force a vote, and she might need only one GOP vote to oust Johnson once their majority shrinks next month due to resignations – assuming Democrats don't rally to save his job, reported Politico.