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Concluding a complex discussion of the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling that handed Donald Trump limited immunity from being prosecuted, former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann called out the court's conservative justices for making up the law as they go along.

Appearing on MSNBC along with legal analyst Lisa Rubin and former counselor to the U.S. attorney general, Chuck Rosenberg, Weissmann tried to sum up what had just occurred as all three of them poured over the ruling and attached dissents.

Amid a meltdown from some in the Democratic pundit and political class, and some left-wing voters, President Joe Biden and his family headed to Camp David for a long-scheduled weekend and VOGUE photoshoot during which they discussed his damaging debate performance and calls for him to drop out of the presidential race.

"You guys don't get to decide," a source close to President Biden told Axios. That source was "referring to high-profile Democrats now second-guessing Biden as nominee."

A press conference with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was derailed Monday after protesters made it difficult to continue.

Greene spoke outside a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, just hours before Steve Bannon was expected to begin serving his sentence after being convicted of contempt of Congress.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) complained Monday that her fellow Republican lawmakers failed to show up to support convicted criminal Steve Bannon as he surrendered for his four-month prison sentence.

During an interview on Real America's Voice, host Terrance Bates asked Greene why no other lawmakers were with her outside the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that former presidents — including Donald Trump — have absolute immunity for core official acts, but that not all acts are official.

The 6-3 ruling itself was a "mixed bag," according to legal analysts giving commentary on the decision via X. They walked through the opinion, saying that what has changed is that a president can claim "official acts" and declare his or her innocence.

Donald Trump celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court decision on his immunity claims as a "big win."

The court's conservative majority ruled 6-3 that Trump enjoys immunity for his official acts as president, but sent the case down to a lower court to determine whether his efforts to remain in office despite losing the 2020 election should be considered as official acts.

The Supreme Court justices who dissented to Monday's ruling on former President Donald Trump's presidential immunity claim called it a mockery of the Constitution that reshapes the institution of the presidency.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented to Chief Justice John Roberts ruling that Trump was entitled to absolute immunity for actions carried out in his official capacity as president — but not all presidential actions were official.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Donald Trump's motion to dismiss federal cases against him due to his absolute immunity as president. Their decision ruled Trump has some immunity.

The court ruled 6-3, rejecting his claim of absolute immunity from all prosecution but stating that former presidents have absolute immunity for core constitutional powers, but not everything a president does is an official act.

A federal judge ruled against former congressman Devin Nunes in his long-running defamation suit against the Washington Post.

District Judge Carl Nichols found that Nunes, a Republican former lawmaker and now CEO of Trump Media, could not prove actual malice by the newspaper when one of its reporters wrote that he had been the source of claims about wiretapping at Trump Tower during the 2016 election.

The U.S. Supreme Court may have invited more MAGA violence by taking away a major disincentive for right-wing radicals.

The court ruled in favor of a Jan. 6 rioter who argued that he was wrongly convicted under a law that criminalizes the obstruction of an official proceeding, and while the decision affects only a fraction of the Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol, right-wing zealots will likely come away from the decision with a feeling of impunity, argued Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's name appears on new subpoenas in former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy case, court records show.

Giuliani's deal with Lindell's streaming site and app FrankSpeech — which the legal news site Law&Crime reports could net $180,000 in extra income — and both men's coffee ventures are at the heart of the documents demanded by the former mayor's creditors, Manhattan bankruptcy court records show.

Former President Donald Trump fired off a more than slightly incoherent rant aimed at President Joe Biden on Monday morning, just hours before the Supreme Court was expected to rule on whether he should be afforded immunity for criminal acts he has been accused of committing.

Taking to his Truth Social platform, the now-convicted felon ex-president continued to obsess over last Thursday's debate on CNN by first ranting, "Only three things could have been the reason that Crooked Joe Biden, the worst President in the history of the United States, failed so badly at the debate on Thursday night."

Steve Bannon on Monday heads to a federal lock-up, becoming the eighth in the inner circle of former President Donald Trump — himself a convicted felon — to face prison, a new tally shows.

MSNBC producer Steve Benen counts 13 people — Trump among them — who have either been found or pleaded guilty in America's criminal courts.