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With the Iowa caucus beginning in just over two weeks and the New Hampshire primary hot on its heels, Gov. Ron DeSantis' once-promising bid to be the Republican Party's 2024 presidential bid seems to be already over.

As the HuffPost is reporting, the clamor for DeSantis to be the face of the party went nowhere as Donald Trump not only hung onto conservative voters but pulled away from the Florida governor despite DeSantis' political operation that proved to be ineffective — when it wasn't being plagued with infighting and layoffs.

Lauren Boebert's claim that her decision to abandon her Colorado congressional district to run in a completely different one was "the right move for me personally" was destroyed by a Denver-based columnist.

Teague Bohlen, who writes for the alternative news site Westword, was actually left stumped when he tried to think of any way the second term Republican or her family would be better off after the move — other than having a greater chance of keeping a seat in Congress.

The U.S. Supreme Court has leaned conservative for decades, but a key difference between the High Court of the 1990s and the High Court of 2023 is the strong influence of social conservatives. Former Justice Anthony Kennedy and the late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor were conservative Ronald Reagan appointees but often sided with liberals when it came to abortion and gay rights; today's Supreme Court is much more sympathetic to the religious right.

In Oklahoma, social conservatives are pushing for a taxpayer-funded Catholic school — inspiring, according to Politico's Heidi Przybyla, heated debates over what the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment says about the separation of church and state. And social conservatives, she reports, may have a sympathetic audience at the Roberts Court.

A federal appeals court has ruled against Donald Trump for a second time this month in a lawsuit filed by police officers over the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The former president had argued that he should be immune from the lawsuit because his conduct should be considered part of his official duties and "constituted speech on matters of public concern."

Donald Trump's own words captured on video helped get him disqualified from the 2024 primary ballot in Maine, according to a legal expert.

That state became the second, after Colorado, to remove the former president from its March 5 primary ballot over his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows made her decision after viewing video evidence provided by a bipartisan group of state legislators, reported Newsweek.

As part of his plea deal with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, former Donald Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro must come clean about his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results — including the fake electors scheme.

According to CNN, a newly released batch of leaked recordings shows the extremes that Trump went to in order to get fake Electoral College documents to Washington, D.C. before Congress' certification of the electoral vote count on January 6, 2021 — with Chesebro sharing details including a plot to fly fake ballots to D.C.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade was asked about a decision on Thursday by Maine's secretary of state to bar Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot and how the Supreme Court will react to it.

Speaking with host Willie Geist, McQuade praised Secretary of State Shenna Lee Bellows for her reading of the 14th Amendment and use of testimony from the House select committee on the Jan. 6 riot to arrive at her decision.

Donald Trump has recently revived long-standing comparisons to Adolf Hitler, but a columnist hit him Friday for being more like a "crybaby conqueror" — though his fanatical supporters seem happy to embrace either.

Trumpists tend to call themselves conservative, which has traditionally signaled a belief in limited government and low taxes, but Chicago Sun-Times columnist Gene Lyons noted with horror that MAGA followers had essentially become fundamentalist fanatics.

The U.S. Supreme Court has leaned conservative for decades, but a key difference between the High Court of the 1990s and the High Court of 2023 is the strong influence of social conservatives. Former Justice Anthony Kennedy and the late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor were conservative Ronald Reagan appointees but often sided with liberals when it came to abortion and gay rights; today's Supreme Court is much more sympathetic to the religious right.

In Oklahoma, social conservatives are pushing for a taxpayer-funded Catholic school — inspiring, according to Politico's Heidi Przybyla, heated debates over what the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment says about the separation of church and state.

Rep. Lauren Boebert's decision to jump to a neighboring district in her bid for a third term in Congress is leaving her fellow Republicans with a "mess" to clean up in her old district — which was solidly conservative until she came along.

According to an analysis from MSNBC's Zeesham Aleem, Boebert's grandstanding, abrasive demeanor and her out-of-Congress exploits have left a bad taste in voters' mouths in Colorado's 3rd District as she seeks the nomination in the 4th district, which is considered a GOP stronghold.

Appearing on CNN the morning after the Maine secretary of state booted Donald Trump off of the state's ballot for leading an insurrection on Jan. 6, a former Republican state senator who helped lead the effort applauded her work — and then had a few words to say about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni.

Speaking with CNN's Erika Hill, ex-Sen. Thomas Saviello (R) admitted the Supreme Court will have to ultimately rule on the decisions now made by both Maine and Colorado to cite the Constitution's 14th Amendment and keep the former president off the ballot.

Donald Trump’s biggest Republican foe unleashed an attack on the states that have kicked him off the ballot Friday, hitting them for strengthening the former president's “martyr” message.

Chris Christie was speaking just hours after Maine became the second state to rule that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment made Trump ineligible for public office.

Booting Donald Trump from the primary ballot in two states has left the 2024 election season in a state of “chaos” that the Supreme Court must step in to fix immediately, experts said on CNN Friday.

They were speaking hours after Maine became the second state in the country to rule that the former president wasn’t eligible to stand for public office. Colorado did the same a week before in a decision that has already been appealed.