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The name of a member of the Ku Klux could appear atop the Missouri gubernatorial primary ballot later this year.

A state legislator, Rep. Shamed Dogan (R-Ballwin), tweeted out a screenshot that shows the unofficial filing list for governor posted on the secretary of state's website. It has the name of white supremacist Darrell Leon McClanahan III listed above two better-known GOP contenders, Mike Kehoe and Jay Ashcroft, reported the Riverfront Times.

Donald Trump was forced to admit on Wednesday that he doesn't have the money to pay the hefty fines and penalties he's incurred as a result of losing two lawsuits — and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen firmly believes the former president is "embarrassed" after the public humiliation.

Speaking to CNN's Laura Coates, Cohen explained he thinks Trump is "nervous about everything" and certainly "has the right to feel so."

Former President Donald Trump said he was appealing a ruling that would see him removed from the Illinois ballot.

In a ruling on Wednesday, Cook County Judge Tracie Porter disqualified Trump but put her decision on hold until Friday, allowing appeal.

CNN polling expert Harry Enten said on Thursday that there's a good reason for Republicans to run away from the Alabama State Supreme Court's ruling that frozen embryos are fully developed children.

Breaking down a new poll on the subject of reproductive rights, Enten explained that the court's declaration that clinics that dispose of frozen embryos could potentially face wrongful death lawsuits was wildly unpopular with voters.

Republicans seemed to be caught off guard by Hunter Biden's preparation and discipline during a grueling, closed-door deposition.

President Joe Biden's son appeared Wednesday before the Oversight and Judiciary committees to discuss his foreign business dealings, which have become the focus of an impeachment inquiry, but Washington Post reporter Jackie Alemany told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Republicans failed to rattle him, as they perhaps intended.

A boast by Donald Trump last week that he is making inroads with Black voters due to his legal problems is getting side-eye from pollsters who claim there is little to no evidence at all of his claim.

During his speech before a South Carolina gathering of Black conservatives the multi-indicted Trump told the crowd, "...a lot of people said that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against," he claimed, before adding, "I think that’s why the Black people are so much on my side now," he added later in the speech. "Because they see what’s happening to me happens to them.”

Ken Block, the man who was hired by Donald Trump's campaign to investigate voter fraud claims, torched the former president's "stolen elections" conspiracy theory in a column published by AZ Central on Thursday.

Block, whose company Simpatico Software Systems was contracted by Trump in November 2020 to investigate assorted voter fraud claims and who described himself in the column as "the man the Trump campaign hired to find those fraudulent votes," dismissed claims by both Trump and failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake as "easily proven as false," and he said his own research proved it.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in Donald Trump's broad claim of presidential immunity, and that decision put his federal election subversion case "on life support" – even if the justices ultimately rule against him.

The court will hear arguments April 22, with a ruling expected in late June, and that timeline could forestall his trials in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents trial in Florida and the Jan. 6 case in Washington, D.C., although MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann told "Morning Joe" he doesn't believe Trump will win his appeal but he doesn't think that will ultimately matter.

Mitch McConnell will finally step down as Republican Senate leader after two decades in that post, and his decision has everything to do with Donald Trump.

The Kentucky Republican despises the former president, who's almost certain to become the GOP nominee for a third time, and Politico's Jonathan Martin reported that McConnell's decision to step down is based on a combination of age and health concerns, political considerations, and a palpable decline in his own power and influence.

Taking the longer view of the Supreme Court's decision to take up the question of Donald Trump's presidential immunity, one legal scholar suggested that will give him time to plot his revenge if he should be re-elected.

University of Baltimore School of Law professor Kim Wehle wrote in a recent column for The Bulwark that she agreed with many in her profession that there was no reason for the court to intercede in a manner that helped the former president delay his trials.

Added to that, she wrote, the court in effect put its "thumb on the scale" by keeping juries from looking at evidence that Trump not only obstructed justice by hoarding sensitive government documents at Mar-a-Lago but also examining his part in fomenting violence during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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As she noted, the assist from the conservative-dominated court has put in motion what she called a potential legal "Armageddon."

"I expect that whatever opinion(s) emerge will be nuanced, and possibly fractured, which will give Trump’s legal team new arguments for dismissing parts of the indictment—further delaying the trial date through the summer, and possibly past the election," she wrote, while also stating it will give Judge Aileen Cannon leeway to foot-drag even more than she already has.

With that, she predicted the court may have opened the door for Trump to be re-elected and seek revenge using his appointees to the DOJ to go after his tormenters.

Referring to the "terrifying use of the Justice Department to prosecute the people behind these cases if Trump wins in November," she argued that "the Supreme Court has moved America a bit closer to that sort of Armageddon."