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House Democrats on Monday called for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from a pending case involving former President Donald Trump and the insurrection effort that took place on January 6, 2021.

A letter spearheaded by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and signed by seven other Democrats cites the participation of Thomas' wife, Ginni Thomas, in the far-right scheme to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election results, in which Trump was soundly defeated by President Joe Biden, as reason enough for the Thomas to recuse himself from a question before the court about the former's president immunity from prosecution.

Former President Donald Trump has designs on converting the entire American system of government into something "in the style of Mar-a-Lago — grand and imperial, not republican and democratic," warned Washington Post columnist and Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen on Tuesday.

This comes amid numerous experts sounding the alarm on Trump's plans to reshape the civil service into a loyalty cult and deploy the military internally, and Trump himself vowing to be a dictator "on day one."

Donald Trump's lawyers are scrambling to keep an expert witness who put a price tag on Rudy Giuliani's election lies from testifying in a defamation lawsuit filed by journalist E. Jean Carroll.

A lawyer for the former president asked a federal judge in New York to block Northwestern University professor Ashlee Humphreys, an expert on social media trends, on the same day she testified in Giuliani's defamation trial in Washington, D.C., reported The Daily Beast.

Voters in Ohio earlier this year overwhelmingly backed an amendment to enshrine abortion rights in their state's constitution, but Republicans in the state are plotting to thwart their wishes.

News 5 Cleveland reports that some Republicans in the Ohio state legislature are now going all-in on backing a total abortion ban that would only have exceptions to save a woman's life but not for women who were impregnated due to rape or incest.

Ashlee Humphreys, a Northwestern University professor known for her expertise on marketing and social media, was among the witnesses in former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss' defamation lawsuit against ex- New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — which ended with a jury awarding them $148 million in damages.

Humphreys is also an expert witness in another defamation lawsuit: former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll's latest defamation case against former President Donald Trump. But according to the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, Trump and his legal team are "desperately" fighting to block her testimony.

It was seen as the “magic formula,” a movement expected to transform the Republican Party and take it into a bright future.

But, just one year after it began, the GOP's Ron DeSantis-led Florida experiment has crashed and burned in spectacular fashion, Salon’s Amanda Marcotte wrote Tuesday.

Rudy Giuliani was slapped with another defamation lawsuit just days after he was ordered to pay a staggering sum for his election lies, and a legal expert explained why the new complaint was a "clever" attempt to shut him up.

The former New York City mayor was ordered to pay $148 million to Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who filed a new complaint Monday after he continued to push false claims about their work on the 2020 election, and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade told "Morning Joe" what the new lawsuit was intended to accomplish.

Republicans in Congress do not appear eager to discuss former President Donald Trump's rants about immigrants "poisoning the blood" of the United States.

Politico's Playbook reports that Republicans on Capitol Hill are "scurrying away from reporters" who want to ask them about Trump using rhetoric that historians have warned echoes late Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Rudy Giuliani continues to push election fraud lies that cost him $148 million in a defamation lawsuit and a newly filed complaint by the two election workers he defamed, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said he was purposefully twisting reality.

The former New York City mayor doubled down on his baseless claims against Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss hours after the pair sued him again, and the "Morning Joe" host said his behavior confirmed the premise of a recent New York Times column from his friend David French.

During Monday night's episode of MSNBC's The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, guest host Symone Sanders-Townsend spoke with former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade about a "false narrative" Donald Trump is pushing in his defense of January 6 rioters.

Sanders-Townsend played a clip of Trump comparing Minneapolis protesters following George Floyd's 2020 murder to the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

A GOPer tried to turn Donald Trump’s widely-reviled “poisoning the blood” speech onto the Democrats late Monday — and was shot down on live TV by a CNN host.

“Well, I don’t think that’s what he was saying,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) told anchor Abby Phillip when she was asked about the speech Trump gave at a rally Saturday which many have said echoes Adolf Hitler’s “blood poisoning” reference in Mein Kampf.

Conservative Matt Lewis is begging someone in President Joe Biden's campaign to take the gloves off and start thrashing former President Donald Trump.

Writing in The Daily Beast, Lewis expressed alarm at Trump's recent rants about immigrants "poisoning the blood" of America and he blasted the Biden White House for responding with a mere press release.