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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley called on Republicans to stop short of giving women the "death penalty" for abortions.

At a campaign stop in South Carolina on Monday, Haley was asked if she made a mistake by calling for a federal ban on abortions without specifics.

Reacting to House Republicans immediately shooting down any chance they'll consider a 370-page bipartisan Senate border bill within minutes after it was made available to them, NBC's Julie Tsirikin took House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) to task for making assertions on social media that she politely called a "misconstruing" of the facts.

On X, Scalise complained about the bill that Donald Trump reportedly wants blocked, writing: "Let me be clear: The Senate Border Bill will NOT receive a vote in the House. Here’s what the people pushing this 'deal' aren’t telling you: It accepts 5,000 illegal immigrants a day and gives automatic work permits to asylum recipients—a magnet for more illegal immigration."

Donald Trump made it abundantly clear that he opposed the Senate's bipartisan border bill that Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) remains optimistic will pass.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said the bill would be "dead on arrival" if it reaches the House, and Trump ratcheted up the pressure on Republican lawmakers to stop the bill from passing in a Monday morning post on Truth Social.

Gideon Rachman, the chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times, has penned a withering column claiming that a second Trump term will make Russian President Vladimir Putin's dreams come true.

Even though Trump has not yet won a second term in office, writes Rachman, he has already inspired Republicans in Congress to block further military aid to Ukraine, which is deeply hurting its ability to defend itself against Russian aggression.

Democrats have enjoyed a recent win streak in Wisconsin, and Republicans have struggled to slow their momentum.

Since Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election win, Democrats and candidates backed by them have won 15 of the last 18 statewide races, and the first liberal state Supreme Court majority in 15 years could redraw gerrymandered legislative maps and cut into the GOP's longtime statehouse majorities, reported NBC News.

Alabama Democrat Rep. Juandalynn Givan has put forth a bill that calls for convicted rapists to be either castrated or given a vasectomy, Newsweek reported.

"My bill is simple," Givan said in a statement in regards to House Bill 90. "If there is a young girl who has been raped or there's incest involved, or a woman that has been raped, the bill would require a man, if found guilty, to have a vasectomy or some form of castration."

A group of experts who spoke with Politico expressed fear that the Supreme Court's decision on whether former President Donald Trump should remain on the ballot will inspire more political violence.

Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told the publication that she didn't expect the kind of mass violence seen at the January 6th Capitol riots, but she said that we should expect isolated violence to erupt across the country.

A civil rights group has joined the fight to keep Donald Trump from holding office again with an argument that gives the U.S. Supreme Court a dose of their own medicine.

The non-profit Public Rights Project (PRP) filed an amicus brief on behalf of historians who argue that the U.S. Constitution's insurrection clause should apply to the former president, and that the framers of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment clearly intended that the provision would not only apply for former Confederates but to leaders of future rebellions, reported The Guardian.

MSNBC " Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough dropped the hammer on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) early Monday morning after the GOP leader announced his opposition to a proposed Senate border bill just hours after it was released.

Late Sunday, Johnson posted on social media, "I’ve seen enough. This bill is even worse than we expected, and won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created. As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed: Under this legislation, 'the border never closes.' If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival."

According to Scarborough, Johnson is only doing it to appease Donald Trump who wants the border issue to remain a problem for President Joe Biden.

"He continued to lie," he said. "As Liz Cheney said, and he basically admitted, he was going around spreading a lie about January 6th, trying to get people to sign onto a letter that would continue the lie and help Ken Paxton spread the lie in Texas, he lied about that. He is lying about this, he knows. [Sen.] James Langford (R-OK) said, 'I wish they'd all read the bill. I wish they would understand how strong the bill is.'"

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"But the sad thing is, and it's pathetic, and we say things can be two things at once, I mean, the new speaker is both dangerous and pathetic," Scarborough exclaimed. "Dangerous because he has decided, and he said it publicly, we're going to put politics over stopping fentanyl from coming into the United States. We're going to put politics above allowing our border security to stop terrorists from coming into the United States. We're going to keep the border chaotic for at least another ten months because we want things to be as chaotic as possible for Joe Biden."

"It's just like Donald Trump saying he wants the economy to crash, there to be a Great Depression, and he wants Biden to be Herbert Hoover," he added.

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House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is presiding over an extremely narrow Republican majority, with a seven-seat advantage and four vacancies.

Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY) resigned last week, following the resignations of Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) last month and former speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) at the end of last year and the expulsion of former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) in December, and Johnson has resorted to a procedural gambit to get bills onto the floor, reported CNN.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday dodged when asked by CNN's Phil Mattingly about whether he would still back former President Donald Trump were he convicted of a felony.

After Mattingly noted that Kemp had said he would support Trump were he the GOP nominee, the CNN host asked him whether a felony conviction would change his thinking on the matter.