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Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) accused his congressional colleague Rep. George Santos (R-NY) of ripping off both him and his mother.

The Ohio Republican sent out a statement to his House GOP colleagues accusing the Santos campaign of charging credit cards belonging to him and his mother for contributions that exceeded Federal Election Commission limits, and for which they did not approve.

With the Iowa Republican Party caucuses still looming and polls not looking good, the chances of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) catching front-runner Donald Trump have all but disappeared — and at least one campaign insider is already waving the white flag.

DeSantis, who attempted to shore up his floundering campaign in a debate with Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) on Thursday night, has not seen any bumps in the polls after multiple Republican debates — which Trump avoided — and after spending millions on a campaign that has gone nowhere.

An appeals court ruled Friday that former President Donald Trump can be sued for his role in inciting the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In a short release announcing the decision, Judges Sri Srinivasan, Greg Katsas, and Judith Rogers affirmed the order of a lower district court that denied a motion to dismiss litigation against Trump.

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear appeals from defendants charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The justices are scheduled to consider three different appeals at their regular private meeting Friday of defendants charged with obstructing an official proceeding, which is one of the charges on which Donald Trump has been indicted in his federal election interference case, reported NBC News.

Steven Sadow, former President Donald Trump's attorney in the Georgia election racketeering case, is planning a new move that could unveil his long-term defense strategy, the New York Times reported.

Unlike many of the more flamboyant legal defenders of the former president, Sadow has remained largely out of the spotlight as the case has advanced. But that could be about to change, reported Richard Fausset.

CNN's Kate Bolduan on Friday schooled Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) over her decision to vote against the expulsion of scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos (R-NY) after a damning House Ethics Committee report found that he spent campaign donors' money on Botox and online pornography.

At the start of the segment, Spartz acknowledged that serious allegations had been made against Santos, but said that he had not yet been convicted in a court of law, which she said should be the standard for expulsion.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrote the foreward for and promoted a book full of extremist conspiracy theories and homophobic slurs, reported CNN's KFILE on Friday.

"Written by Scott McKay, a local Louisiana politics blogger, the book, 'The Revivalist Manifesto,' gives credence to unfounded conspiracy theories often embraced by the far-right – including the 'Pizzagate' hoax, which falsely claimed top Democratic officials were involved in a pedophile ring, among other conspiracies," reported Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck. "The book also propagates baseless and inaccurate claims, implying that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was subjected to blackmail and connected to the disgraced underage sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein."

As GOP lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House ramp up their investigation of Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, there is a growing appetite among some Democrats to use their control of the Senate to hold hearings on the hundreds of millions made by Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner while they served in the White House for four years.

According to a report from the New Republic's Mark Hosenball, Democrats would be well served by opening hearings on the couple as a counterpoint to the Biden investigations being headed by Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and James Comer (R-KY) — and the Democrats already have the goods to proceed.

One Democratic insider told the TNR journalist that some "Democrats simply have other priorities, including a robust policy agenda, that they want to focus on" and added that "there’s no evidence to suggest that additional investigations of Trump would damage or influence his political prospects."

Politico has published a new excerpt of a book written by Christian journalist Tim Alberta, and this one focuses on a phony "historian" named David Barton who is spreading false claims about the United States having been founded by a theocracy.

According to Alberta, Barton has been the star lecturer in the American Restoration Tour, which has been urging American Christians to see themselves as the natural masters over all domains of American government, culture, and the media.

A former federal prosecutor shrugged off First Amendment concerns over a gag order imposed on Donald Trump in his New York fraud trial.

Judge Arthur Engoron imposed restrictions on what the former president can say about his court staff, and District judge Tanya Chutkan wants to prohibit him from directly targeting court personnel, potential witnesses or the special counsel and his staff, and former prosecutor Shan Wu wrote a column for The Daily Beast knocking down Trump's complaints about these orders.

Rep. George Santos (R-NY) could be expelled from Congress by the end of the day, and a reporter told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the embattled lawmaker could have a bright future in reality television once his criminal case is resolved.

The New York Republican has been charged with 23 counts, including money laundering and wire fraud, and the House Ethics Committee issued a scathing 56-report detailing his alleged crimes, and Washington Post reporter Jacqueline Alemany compared him to a notorious con artist who posed as a wealthy heiress.