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Former President Donald Trump is once again asking a court to delay the $83.3 million civil judgment against him in the defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.

According to Aaron Katersky and Peter Charalambous for NBC News, Trump's attorneys Alina Habba and John D. Sauer "renewed Trump's request that Judge Lewis Kaplan delay the judgment for 30 days after Kaplan resolves the post-trial motions, or that he permits Trump to post a reduced bond of $24.475 million."

The FBI is asking for help hunting a man they suspect of being an Iranian assassin targeting former officials of President Donald Trump's administration.

Semafor reported Monday that Majid Dastjani Farahani is thought to have been recruiting people for the killing.

Right-wing activists and allies of Donald Trump are challenging voter rolls in critical presidential battleground states, which observers say is an under-the-radar effort that could seriously effect close or contested elections.

Activists are pressuring local officials in strongly Democratic areas of Michigan, Nevada and Georgia to drop voters' names from the rolls. As The New York Times points out, one town in Michigan removed 100 names from its roll after activists, who call themselves "election investigators," used an obscure state law from the 1950s as their rationale.

In a series of posts to his Truth Social platform on Monday, former President Donald Trump appeared to suggest that he'll be open to blackmail if the Supreme Court upholds lower court decisions that he does not have immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken as president.

Trump has argued the office of president means he can't face criminal prosecution.

Former Trump lawyer Ken Chesebro is already facing questions about whether he potentially perjured himself in testimony to Michigan prosecutors, and now New York University Law professor Ryan Goodman has flagged testimony in another state that could prove problematic.

Specifically, Goodman points to a statement Chesebro made to a grand jury in Nevada about the "alternate elector" plan he devised in which a group of Trump supporters falsely asserted themselves to be the legitimate electoral college representatives in states that voted for President Joe Biden in 2020.

A video compilation purports to show 32 times Donald Trump forgot words, mispronounced or mixed up names, got confused, or just "babbled insane nonsense" during his two campaign speeches on Saturday.

The video, posted to social media by attorney and MeidasTouch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski, lasts under 3 minutes, and has gotten 1.3 million views in under 30 hours.

Donald Trump's scattershot and rambling response to the Supreme Court ruling that he can't be booted from the ballot by states over his part in the Jan. 6 insurrection got the hook from MSNBC's Katy Tur on Monday.

Speaking from his Mar-a-Lago resort, the former president first applauded the 9-0 ruling before complaining about all of his other legal problems, lashing out at Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — while mocking her name — and then turning his ire on the judges and prosecutors who are holding him to account.

After Trump started lobbing unfounded accusations, personal attacks and conspiracy theories, the MSNBC host had enough and cut off the feed mid-sentence, informing viewers that the former president was playing fast and loose with the truth.

Former President Donald Trump unloaded a rambling rant Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he could not be disqualified from state ballots for insurrection.

After arriving late to his noon press conference, Trump thanked the Supreme Court and called the ruling a unifying moment for the country.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump cannot be excluded from the Colorado state ballot, the "brief national dalliance with the 14th Amendment is now officially over," according to legal analyst Elie Honig

In an op-ed published Monday, Honig went on to say, "It was plain from the start that the effort to disqualify Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot was doomed to fail."

Appearing on MSNBC just hours after the Supreme Court issued a unanimous 9-0 decision keeping Donald Trump on the ballot, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) stated she would accept the ruling — but had a few things to say about letting "insurrectionist" Trump run for office again.

Along the way, she bashed Congress for not doing its job and took some potshots at Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni — pointing out her part in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Speaking with host Katy Tur, Griswold told the host, "I would say it's good the court issued the decision. Americans have been voting all across the nation in early voting in those Super Tuesday states including here in Colorado, and Coloradans and Americans deserve to know whether Trump is a qualified candidate."

The U.S. Supreme Court kicked Donald Trump's eligibility for election to Congress, but Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) doubts lawmakers will disqualify the former president under the Constitution's insurrection clause.

The court on Monday overturned a ruling by Colorado's Supreme Court disqualifying Trump under the 14th Amendment, which says that anybody engaging in an insurrection against the U.S. is barred from holding public office.

Less than a year ago, House Oversight and Reform chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) gave a press conference demanding the FBI hand over a claim from a confidential source — and promising never to use unverified information on the form as part of a "witch hunt."

It hasn't turned out that way.