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The Judicial Conference of the United States is cracking down on a tactic Republican lawmakers have used to block liberal-leaning court decisions, CNN reported Tuesday.

The judiciary announced, "A new policy that will broaden the pool of judges who could be assigned to hear cases seeking state-wide or nationwide orders, making it more difficult to single out a particular judge, although it will still be possible to seek out a favorable pool of judges to hear cases."

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann is shocked by former Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler coming forward to describe what he saw of classified documents being illegally moved — and not just because of the details he shared.

Speaking on MSNBC Tuesday, Weissmann said he was dismayed at how the justice system and the courts have apparently worked to prevent the public from being able to review the information ahead of the election.

Dozens of House Republicans plan to skip an upcoming GOP retreat, saying the location — and some of the attendees — are less than desirable, according to a new report. Those reported grumblings signal tensions within the party are still high in the wake of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's ouster.

According to CNN, fewer than 100 Republicans have RSVP’d for the event this Wednesday and Thursday, which amount to less than half of the Republican conference.

Former President Donald Trump has filed a motion in his hush money case that one legal expert is calling "weird."

Trump's Monday filing in New York City criminal court — where he stands accused of falsifying business records to pay off Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election — shows he plans to present an advice-of-counsel defense, court records show.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is losing patience with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who continues to drag his feet on a foreign aid package still awaiting action in the lower chamber of Congress.

The U.S. Senate has already passed a $95 billion aid package for America's allies overseas, which includes $60 billion in military support for Ukraine as it struggles to fend off Vladimir Putin's regime amid an ammunition shortage.

Two secretive legal defense funds have paid a $70,000 retainer to bankruptcy lawyers for Rudy Giuliani.

In a four-page motion to amend his bankruptcy declaration on Tuesday, Giuliani said he had retained Berger, Fischoff, Shumer, Wexler & Goodman, LLP.

A former senior adviser to Melania Trump says she thinks the former First Lady's marriage to Donald Trump is in trouble, based on what she sees as a change in his behavior.

In a post to X, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the author of the tell-all “Melania and Me,” said that perception is everything to the Trump family, "so Trump's lack of ‘chivalry’ towards Melania is quite a ‘tell.'"

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) talked smack about a Trump-skeptic conservative from the Colorado Republican delegation at a recent gathering with voters in his own district.

According to the Colorado Sun, when a voter asked the far-right congresswoman, "What happened" to Rep. Ken Buck?" Boebert replied that "he got bit by the Liz Cheney bug."

Former President Donald Trump's first criminal trial is due to begin in less than two weeks, and his ex-attorney doesn't think Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will have a difficult time securing a guilty verdict.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, lawyer Alan Dershowitz — who represented Trump in his first impeachment trial — said Trump's legal team should expect a worst-case scenario, given their current 0-3 record in New York courtrooms.

More than a dozen Florida lawmakers who favored Donald Trump over Gov. Ron DeSantis for president are fearful they're about to be hit by repercussions as their governor returns home from the trail.

Among their fears is that their hometown projects could get slashed from the state's annual budget, according to a report.

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) suggested he is quitting Congress this week because Republicans have a "personal" grudge against him and the House of Representatives is "dysfunctional."

After announcing his near-immediate retirement, Buck spoke to CNN's Dana Bash about the decision.

When a group of pro-Trump activists in Wisconsin claimed they had uncovered evidence of more than 700,000 cases of voter fraud — which, if true, would have made it the most extreme case of voter fraud in American history — Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign "treated it with the utmost urgency, in a mix of high farce and low comedy that became the hallmark of the MAGA movement’s fraud fever after the election."

That's according to Rolling Stone's Adam Rawnsley, who interviewed Republican elections expert Ken Block for his latest piece. Block said that the pro-Trump activists "took their proof to the manager of a Trump golf course, who forwarded that proof to Eric Trump, who delivered it to the [Trump campaign] lawyer I reported to, Alex Cannon."