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With House of Representative members taking the Thanksgiving holidays off, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is the recipient of a brief reprieve as his honeymoon following his election to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) appears to have come to an end.

Speaking with MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart, analyst Kurt Bardella agreed that not only is the newly elected speaker on "thin ice," that will be a continual state of affairs for him and those who follow him because anyone could also meet McCarthy's fate.

Discussing Johnson pushing through a temporary budget deal with the help of Democrats, Bardella suggested Johnson made a mistake by leaving in place the "trigger' that unsurprisingly doomed McCarthy's speakership.

"'The speaker is on thin ice" might as well be the ongoing theme song of the speaker of the House under Republican rule," Bardella stated. "It is never going to change as long as they keep this ridiculous and insane trigger of a handful of guys who can say, 'We don't like what you're doing here, you're out.'"

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With host Capehart pointing out, "It just takes one with the motion to vacate," Bardella exclaimed, "How that wasn't the first order of business for the new speaker to say, 'Okay, if I'm going to take this terrible job, I'm changing that rule right now'?"

"Why would anyone accept this job under such a terrible condition of having a one-vote guy saying, 'You know what? I don't like you, you are out' — this is insane!"

"And nothing has changed from when Kevin McCarthy was speaker to where we are now in terms of the dynamics in the caucus when it comes to these shutdown showdowns," he explained. "They feel the same way. They aren't happy just passing this two-tiered approach. And let's be clear here: they couldn't get the job done when there was just one deadline. Why does anyone think they can do it when there is two?"

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Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold (D) blasted District Judge Sarah B. Wallace on MSNBC on Saturday morning for agreeing that Donald Trump participated in an insurrection against the United States government but that it did not preclude him from running to be the commander in chief once again.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Ali Velshi less than 24 hours after Wallace issued her ruling that some constitutional scholars called "preposterous" and "bizarre," a visibly upset Griswold accused the jurist of giving Trump a free pass.

A ruling by District Judge Sarah Wallace requiring that the Colorado secretary of state must place Donald Trump on the state's primary ballot next year, because he is not ineligible according to her reading of the 14th Amendment, was ripped apart by two constitutional law scholars appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning.

Former federal Judge Michael Luttig and constitutional law expert Laurence Tribe spoke with host Ali Velshi less than 24 hours after the ruling came down where Wallace agreed the former president took part in the Jan. 6 insurrection but didn't feel he was covered by wording in Section Three that would bar him from running for office.

According to Tribe, the judge made an "egregious error" in her ruling which Tribe also labeled as "bizzaro."

"The court did egregiously error in holding that the office of the president is not an office under the United States, turning constitutional interpretation upside down, by finding the unambiguous text of Section Three ambiguous because of a sliver of debate history that is not only itself ambiguous, but is rendered singularly unpersuasive by other exchanges in the debate history," Luttig explained. "That reflects the understanding that the office of president is of course an office under the United States, from which a person can be disqualified by Section Three."

"You suggested that this was a narrow interpretation of section three," he told the MSNBC host. "It is that and more. It is the narrowest possible interpretation of Section Three, it's the interpretation urged on the court by the former president's lawyers. But it's simply incorrect as a matter of constitutional law."

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Tribe added, "In paragraph 100 of the opinion, she [Judge Wallace] concludes he knew he [Trump] lost the election. so what accounts for this bizarre, actually, bizarro upside-down holding that the highest office in the land, the one of the greatest power, the one whose danger to the republic is at its maximum, would somehow be exempt?"

"That the judge herself says, she admits that sounds preposterous, that's her word," he continued. "She says it would carry the preposterous application that Jefferson Davis, who took an oath to the Constitution, before becoming a senator, then became a senator, then turned on the Constitution, then became a Confederate and the president of the Confederacy, that he could then become president of the post civil war United States?"