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Former President Donald Trump's arguments Thursday to dismiss the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case were completely wrong, former federal prosecutor Elliot Williams claimed on CNN.

The arguments, delivered before Judge Aileen Cannon, didn't appear to sway her — although the judge, controversial for her repeated orders that experts suggest have favored Trump, kept her opinions close to her chest in the hearing.

As Donald Trump's lawyers and Jack Smith argued Thursday about when the former president will face trial in the classified documents case, an onlooker expressed skepticism.

"This case is never getting to trial before the election," NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian said.

New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Thursday that he did not oppose a 30-day delay in Donald Trump's trial over hush money payments to cover-up of his sex scandal.

In a three-page filing before the New York Supreme Court, Bragg responded to a motion to dismiss made by Trump's lawyers after they received thousands of pages of information from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

When members of the U.S. House of Representatives are sworn into Congress, they are given a pin as a symbol of their membership. That pin, in the past, was green.

But according to Politico’s E&E News, the House Republican majority spent a reported $40,000 to replace it with a pin that had a different color — as they thought the word "green" sounded too liberal.

A psychologist Thursday took the media to task for normalizing former President Donald Trump while "pathologizing" President Joe Biden in a misguided attempt at balanced coverage.

"The press edits out the most disordered parts of Trump’s speeches or normalizes his behavior with innocuous euphemistic words, like 'rambling,'" Dr. John Gartner said in an interview with Salon. "The press is pathologizing the normal in the case of Biden and normalizing the pathological in the case of Trump. It’s perverse."

Donald Trump former adviser Peter Navarro is out of tries to keep himself out of jail.

On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued an order denying Navarro's request to remain free while he appeals his conviction for contempt of Congress — a decision that will force him to report to jail next Tuesday to begin serving his four-month sentence.

U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon expressed skepticism about two motions to dismiss a classified documents case against Donald Trump and two co-defendants.

At Thursday's hearing in Miami, Cannon appeared skeptical of both of Trump's arguments for dismissal.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has been served a subpoena stemming from a civil lawsuit over accusations that he had sex with an underage girl, sources told ABC News Thursday.

The subpoena demands Gaetz sit for a deposition to discuss allegations stemming from a years-long Justice Department investigation into allegations that he had sex with a 17-year-old girl, who is now in her 20s, according to the report.

New policies are attempting to stop so-called "judge shopping," where someone wants to sue before a judge that is likely to support the case. Now Republicans are telling conservative judges that they don't really have to follow that policy if they don't want.

After the Judicial Conference of the United States agreed to new rules aimed at limiting the ability of plaintiffs to choose judges they want to hear their cases, many Republican lawmakers expressed outrage at the change.

Indicted Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who along with his wife is facing 18 federal counts, is considering running for reelection in November as an Independent, sources close to the matter tell NBC News.

Menendez, who also accused of accepting bribes, has not yet publicly announced a run for reelection after he stepped down from his post as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has since rejected calls for him to resign.

Harrison Floyd is one of Donald Trump's many co-defendants in the Georgia election racketeering case -- and he's also been sparring with the judge presiding over his case for breaking the terms of his bond.

In November, Judge Scott A. McAfee was asked to revoke Floyd's bond when he posted a series of social media comments the judge agreed intimidated and threatened witnesses.