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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wants to overrule any ability of federal courts to hear accusations of rigging legislative maps based on race, wrote court watcher Mark Joseph Stern for Slate on Thursday — and in the process, he took aim at the landmark ruling that prohibited segregation in public schools.

This came out of the court's ruling this week in Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP, in which Justice Samuel Alito, currently under fire for a series of scandals about the display of extremist symbols on his property, wrote for the six right-wing justices to greatly restrict the circumstances in which courts can overrule racial gerrymanders.

Republican Rep. Andy Ogles, who was first elected to Congress via Tennessee's 5th Congressional District in 2022, is seeking a second term in 2024. Much of the controversy surrounding Ogles has involved his far-right positions, which have ranged from false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump to saying that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas should face treason charges.

The latest Ogles controversy, however, isn't policy-related, but rather, involves campaign finance matters.

Republicans are already attempting to block House Democrats from investigating a meeting former President Donald Trump held with oil and gas executives that critics have called an act of "undisguised corruption," a new letter shows.

The investigation would potentially look into Trump's reported demand, made at a Mar-a-Lago dinner in April, for $1 billion in campaign funding in exchange for environmental regulation cuts should he regain the White House.

CNN anchor Boris Sanchez clashed with Bryan Lanza, former deputy communications chief for the Trump 2016 campaign, over the former president's record on race relations during a segment on Thursday.

The exchange came as Trump, who has faced geographic constraints on where he can rally due to the ongoing criminal trial in Manhattan, prepared to host a rally in The Bronx to connect with Black and Hispanic voters.

Attorney General Merrick Garland Thursday shattered former President Donald Trump's newest witch hunt conspiracy theory by sharing with reporters a single fact.

Garland delivered this check alongside a public condemnation of Trump's recent fundraising email that claimed President Joe Biden was ready to assassinate him when the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago for classified documents in 2022.