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A second term of Donald Trump is going to unfurl draconian policies that has MSNBC host Rachel Maddow concerned.

The cornerstone of former President Donald Trump's 2024 reelection campaign is to send back the migrants who entered the U.S. illegally.

A U.S. congressman is calling a Supreme Court decision to rid the Texas border of its razor wire as "staging a civil war" and that its officers should "stand their ground."

Federal border patrol agents are now empowered to dispose of the concertina wire fortifying Texas along the Southern Border, following the Supreme Court ruling 5-4 in favor on Monday.

In the latest filing in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, former President Donald Trump's attorneys levied attacks not just at special counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting the case, but at Attorney General Merrick Garland, accusing him of "inappropriately" seeking a speedy trial.

The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides that anyone accused of a crime has the right to a speedy trial. The problem is that Trump wants to hold off as long as possible.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) couldn't go toe-to-toe against Donald Trump in 2024.

And despite launching his campaign to take over as MAGA Republican Party's heir apparent — he's now licking his wounds inflicted over 242 days on the campaign stump.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis offered a tepid endorsement of former President Donald Trump when he dropped out of the 2024 presidential race over the weekend. But he apparently draws the line at using his state's taxpayer funds to bail out Trump from his legal expenses.

That's exactly what at least some Republican lawmakers in the Sunshine State are proposing. A new bill announced this month with the sponsorship of state Sen. Ileana Garcia and the backing of Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis would establish a "Florida Freedom Fighters Fund," allowing up to $5 million in support for a presidential candidate running this state who faces a federal or state criminal trial. Patronis said the bill is vital to defending candidates from "legal, partisan, political attacks by the Department of Justice or State Attorneys."

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has sent some Donald Trump supporters into a frothing rage this week.

The third High Court appointee of the former president has largely given Republicans what they wanted since being seated, from rulings against gun control and affirmative action to the deciding vote to eliminate Roe v. Wade abortion protections.

Texas lost another case at the U.S. Supreme Court against President Joe Biden's administration.

In this case, the federal government is fighting the state's decision to put razor wire on the border that blocks U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers from being able to access migrants. The incident unfolded after three migrants died in the river between the U.S. and Mexico. The Border Patrol was prevented from being able to save the family, which included two children.

Disgraced media mogul Conrad Black, who was pardoned by Donald Trump in 2019, penned a gushing column praising Trump Monday — and said the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nominee has the left in a "five-alarm panic"

Black, a Canadian and British former newspaper tycoon who was convicted of fraud in 2007 and sentenced to six-and-a-half years in federal prison, wrote his column in The New York Sun — of which he is a founding director.

Conservative attorney George Conway on Monday unloaded on “sociopath” Donald Trump, telling NPR’s Michael Martin, “[Trump] is either going to become president, or he is going to spend the rest of his life in prison.”

Discussing the four criminal indictments Trump is currently facing, Conway noted, “Any combination of the counts … with which he’s been charged … is going to put him in jail for a number of years.”

Donald Trump had another senior moment when speaking to a reporter from the Fox network Monday in New Hampshire.

The latest cautionary advice by the 45th president was about gas prices as well as some other confused thoughts.

Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN) took to X on Monday to boast that he had helped secure funding to repair a bridge in northern Minnesota. The problem is that it is a lie.

"I'm proud to announce that Duluth, MN and Superior, WI have received over 1 billion in federal funding to help replace the Blatnik Bridge," he wrote. "This is a HUGE win for #MN08 and I was proud to advocate for these funds!"

For the past year, analysts have speculated that the reason Donald Trump is trying to put off his criminal court trials is that if he is back in office, he can shut down the trials against him. One legal analyst doesn't think that's the whole story.

Speaking to MSNBC's Michael Steele on Monday, Andrew Weissmann, former senior prosecutor to Robert Mueller, said he thinks Trump is actually scared of the trial itself.

There was debate over the weekend about whether Donald Trump would testify in his E. Jean Carroll damages trial on Monday — with many legal experts discussing the disaster that could unfold.

As it turned out, an ill juror forced a last-minute pause for a day, but the short morning of activity was enough for MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin to admit she was wrong. She had assumed Trump was not going to testify — but what she saw in court Monday morning convinced her he was ready to go.