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Special counsel Jack Smith responded on Thursday after Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to reject a petition to decide if he has presidential immunity from prosecution.

In a filing, Smith explained why he was taking the unusual step of asking to bypass the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Republican Party organizations in Georgia are trying to impose purity tests to determine which candidates can run on the ballot with an "R" behind their name.

GOP committees in deep-red Chattooga and Pickens counties have adopted so-called "accountability" measures that allow party leaders to determine which candidates for county office are eligible to run as Republicans, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

A law often touted by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts the kinds of books that can be available in public schools has led teachers in the state's Orange County to remove hundreds of books from their shelves — including some that are widely considered literary classics.

The Orlando Sentinel has compiled a list of all 673 books pulled from the shelves in the county, and it shows that Florida's law resulted in the removal of books that go well beyond often-targeted titles such as "Gender Queer" by author Maia Kobabe.

Former United States Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark argued that Donald Trump could not be guilty of an insurrection because his efforts to stay in office ultimately failed.

During a Thursday interview with right-wing podcaster Steve Bannon, Clark disagreed with a Colorado Supreme Court decision that bars Trump from the state's primary ballot based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

Disgraced former Congressman George Santos (R-NY) is reportedly participating in a documentary that's being made chronicling his saga of lies and alleged criminality, The New York Times reported.

The film is being produced by documentarian Jenner Furst, who told The Times that Santos will profit from the project in the form of an archival materials fee and is aware that critics might object to Santos making money from his story, but says that the project will actually help Santos' alleged victims get justice.

The Colorado Supreme Court's ruling that 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is disqualified from the state's Republican primary ballot is being applauded by a variety of Trump critics and slammed by Trump's loyalists — including his son.

Donald Trump Jr. has attacked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD) for not being quick to respond to the decision.

Former President Donald Trump insisted on Thursday that he was not an insurrectionist despite inciting a riot against the U.S. government.

"I'm not an Insurrectionist ('PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY'), Crooked Joe Biden is!!!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Appearing on "Morning Joe" on Thursday morning, Chris Matthews was asked by host Joe Scarborough how ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani fell so far and so fast and the ex-MSNBC anchor pinned it on two things — alcohol abuse and being under the sway of Donald Trump.

Reacting to Giuliani's fortunes that just saw him take a $148 million hit in a defamation trial, Matthews called the former mayor's life a "mess."

The U.S. Supreme Court will almost certainly decide if Donald Trump is eligible to run for president after Colorado's Supreme Court disqualified him under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — but they just as certainly would prefer to stay out of it.

The constitutional provision prevents anyone who takes part in an insurrection against the United States from holding elected office — which a Colorado judge found Trump had done, and the state's Supreme Court agreed.

Actor John Schneider, best known for his role as Bo Duke on the classic TV show Dukes of Hazzard, responded to a post on X from President Joe Biden late Wednesday — and suggested that he be publicly executed.

" Trump poses many threats to our country: The right to choose, civil rights, voting rights, and America’s standing in the world," the post to Biden's account stated.

Appearing on CNN on Thursday morning, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was asked about the Colorado Supreme Court ruling Donald Trump should not appear on the 20204 ballot and replied that he agreed with it.

Speaking with host Erica Hill, the attorney who served under President George W. Bush said he'd rather go to court using the case presented by the court than the defense offered by Trump's legal team.

Asked why he leans toward the Colorado ruling, he explained that he feels there is ample evidence Trump helped to incite the Jan. 6 insurrection.

"I think on the merits, yes, one consideration, one argument will be the due process one, but putting that aside, which is not insignificant, I think it's fairly clear to me that former president Trump engaged in insurrection," he stated.

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"The language of the Constitution is engaged in insurrection, and I think he meets that standard based on the findings of the trial court judge in Colorado based on the excellent work of the January 6th Congressional committee," he continued. "I think, in my mind, that threshold has been met."

"This is a difficult position for the court," he elaborated. "I think the chief [Justice John Roberts] is already wrestling with concerns about the politics, the way that the public more and more views the court as a political institution. Whatever the outcome is here ... those views will simply be amplified. So it's an interesting conundrum. I don't envy the chief, and other members of the court, quite frankly, so we will have to wait and see. It's a difficult issue."

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Just hours after former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was told to immediately pay the massive $148 million bill he was hit with in a defamation ruling, he was on his show touting bizarre Christmas decorations made out of empty vitamin bottles.

The ex-New York City mayor was told Wednesday he must pay Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss immediately after an earlier ruling set the damages for defaming them with claims that they helped rig the 2020 election count in Georgia.