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Former President Donald Trump has 30 days to come up with $454 million, in cash or bond, after Judge Arthur Engoron officially filed his massive civil fraud trial ruling Friday, court records show.

The official filing, titled "JUDGMENT - MONEY," also starts the clock on the 9 percent per annum interest Trump must pay on the judgment, the Attorney General's office told the New York Daily News.

After hearing arguments about whether Colorado should exclude Donald Trump from its ballot, the U.S. Supreme Court justices suggested they might be inclined not to make the decision — and instead leave it up to Congress.

If that happens, some experts say, it could spark a constitutional crisis specifically due to the fact that "Democrats would have to choose between confirming a winner many of them believe is ineligible and defying the will of voters who elected him," writes The Atlantic's Russell Berman.

During a forum at the Conservative Political Action Conference, House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) admitted to the audience of far-right activists that the primary source of his investigation into President Joe Biden and his son Hunter lacks credibility.

Journalist Aaron Rupar posted a clip from the forum to X showing Jordan talking to CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp, in which Jordan compared indicted FBI informant Alexander Smirnov — who was rearrested again Thursday — to former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, who authored the infamous Steele Dossier.

Former President Donald Trump called on Alabama Republicans to act after the state Supreme Court put in vitro fertilization procedures in peril by ruling frozen embryos are babies.

"Today, I am calling on the Alabama Legislature to act quickly to find an immediate solution to preserve the availability of IVF in Alabama," Trump wrote on Truth Social platform Friday. "We want to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder! That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every State in America."

Prosecutors who demanded the re-arrest of a former FBI informant accused of lying about $5 million bribes he claimed President Joe Biden accepted are terrified he might flee the country, legal expert said Friday.

Elie Honig appeared on CNN Friday to discuss what host Poppy Harlow described as the "super rare" decision to rearrest Alexander Smirnov, a key witness in House Republicans' impeachment probe who now faces charges that he made false statements to the FBI.

A court document unsealed on Friday revealed that United States District Court for the Central District of California Otis Wight ordered the re-arrest of former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov because the judge found it "likely" that he would try to flee the country.

The order, which was described by Just Security legal reporter Adam Klasfeld as "wild," states that "it has come to this Court's attention that counsel for [Smirnov] has sought an emergency hearing... to arrange the release of Defendant Smirnov, likely to facilitate his absconding from the United States."

A Tennessee Republican voiced concerns that vaccines could be slipped surreptitiously into vegetables or cigarettes.

State Rep. Scott Cepicky (R-Culleoka) claimed University of California Riverside had already perfected the ability to put vaccines into vegetables such as lettuce or tomatoes, just as he said RJ Reynolds had done for tobacco products, and he told a dubious chairman of the House Health Committee that the public had a right to know whether their food was also medicine.

According to cellphone data submitted to court Friday, Nathan Wade visited Fani Willis' home at least 35 times before she hired him to be the lead prosecutor in Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case.

Willis had previously claimed that their romantic relationship didn't begin until after Wade was hired into the case, and the filing raises new questions as to the truthfulness of her claims.

The man wore a fedora, a long white scarf and trench coat. He leaned on a cane and watched a gallows rise over the grass, then he disappeared into the dawn.

This is not the end of a gothic film noir, it’s a description of a wanted Jan. 6 rioter as described in a new Republican-led House subcommittee report.

Since becoming Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) has caused concern that if Republicans hold the House in 2024, he will refuse to certify a President Joe Biden victory.

Johnson was an avid supporter of the 2020 election overthrow attempt, shopping a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton around the House in an attempt to garner support from other GOP members. The suit accused Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin of making last-minute changes to their elections to skew the results.