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'Betrayed': Ex-Trump aide rails against 'flip-flopper' Nikki Haley for going full MAGA

"The View's" co-host, Alyssa Farah Griffin, has been one of Nikki Haley's biggest supporters on television. Now, all of that has changed.

After spending months trashing former President Donald Trump as unfit, Haley this week offered her full support to him.

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Jack Smith hands over 500 pages to Trump — and jabs Cannon for making him do it

Special counsel Jack Smith Thursday handed over nearly 500 pages of materials to Donald Trump after the former president's lawyers accused him of "extraordinary" misconduct in the classified documents case, court records show.

In his letter to Florida federal court judge Aileen Cannon, Smith takes a stiff tone when he reports delivering 457 pages of discovery materials linked to Trump's accusations that the Justice department tampered with evidence.

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'What judge on planet Earth does that?' Justice Alito raked over the coals for new scandal

Reacting to a new report that Justice Samuel Alito displayed another flag associated with the Jan. 6 insurrection flying at his beach vacation home, CNN's Van Jones pounced on the controversial conservative justice for his casual disregard for observing ethical decorum.

On Thursday morning, Jones spoke with CNN host Jim Acosta and was asked about the “Appeal to Heaven” flag Alito and his wife put on display after trying to dismiss the upside-down American flag they flew at their primary home.

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‘Contemptuous’: Top constitutional scholar warns Alito he's ‘close to treason’

Laurence Tribe, a top constitutional expert, is suggesting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's actions may be "close to treason," after the jurist flew flags associated with the January 6 insurrection and the far-right Christian nationalist movement at two of his homes.

Professor Tribe alleged Justice Alito may have committed impeachable offenses, including "giving aid and comfort to an insurrection against the Constitution of the United States, which is close to treason," he said in his Wednesday interview on the MeidasTouch Network (video below). He also called for a "serious investigation" by the U.S. Senate into Alito, who "has been contemptuous for quite a while." He added, "it's about time that he be held to account."

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Justice Kagan's dissent appears to throw shade at Sam Alito for upside-down flag

Justice Elena Kagan appeared to take a shot at fellow Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's upside-down American flag in her dissent to a ruling on South Carolina's gerrymandered election map.

The conservative majority ruled 6-3 in favor of the state government in a challenge by the NAACP to South Carolina's redrawn congressional map, arguing that it was gerrymandered to dilute the number of Black voters, but Alito wrote that the Republican-controlled legislature had not violated the Constitution to ensure Rep. Nancy Mace's (R-SC) district would remain reliably safe for GOP candidates.

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'Bell that’s hard to unring': Expert thinks jurors are curious why Trump didn't testify

Jurors come into a case with a lot of preconceived opinions, and former President Donald Trump's resistance to testifying in his hush-money trial could influence their final decision, one legal expert said.

Trump is on trial in Manhattan for 34 counts around the falsification of business records around a hush money scandal involving an alleged affair.

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Supreme Court upholds South Carolina election maps that allegedly weakened Black voters

A South Carolina district, which Rep. Nancy Mace (R) represents, will remain the same, despite claims that it was racially gerrymandered.

In a 6-3 ideological decision Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court conservatives voted to reverse the lower court decision that struck down the seat.

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'Guess I hit a nerve': McGovern rebukes ‘pathetic’ GOP for striking his Trump remarks

Congressman Jim McGovern had a few additional disparaging words Thursday for his GOP colleagues, a day after factual remarks about former president Donald Trump he made on the House floor were formally stricken from the record by Republicans who control the gavel.

"I guess I hit a nerve," McGovern said in an early morning post on X.

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Pro-Trump election clerk's lawsuit tossed by judge citing Mike Lindell's courtroom flop

An attempt by embattled former Colorado elections official Tina Peters to sue Attorney General Merrick Garland was quickly dismissed by a federal judge who cited a similar lawsuit filed by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell that went nowhere.

According to a report from Law & Crime, former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters accused Garland and his Department of Justice of government retaliation after she attempted to make a case that there was election fraud that prevented Donald Trump from winning re-election in 2020.

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'Infinite stupidity': Fury as Trump brags Russia would free WSJ reporter if he's elected

Donald Trump prompted furious backlash by claiming that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich would "be released almost immediately" by Russia if he won the November election.

The journalist was arrested in March 2023 on spying charges and has spent more than a year in a Moscow prison without a trial date scheduled, and the former president suggested that Russian president Vladimir Putin would release Gershkovich as a personal favor to him if he wins re-election.

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Multiple indicted Trump fake electors 'excited' to offer their services again 2024

Despite the prospect of facing time in prison as part of a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election by committing fraud, multiple so-called "fake electors" in three states are offering to duplicate their efforts in the 2024 election if called upon.

According to a report from The Washington Post, at least six of Donald Trump's supporters — several of whom are under indictment in their respective states — are seeking the position of an elector again, in some cases because they still think the charges against them are "bogus."

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'This is what's destroying this country': Anti-Trump Republican wrecks Nikki Haley on CNN

A former Nikki Haley admirer expressed disgust for her endorsement of Donald Trump after calling him out as unfit for office.

The former South Carolina governor described Trump as "unstable" and "unhinged" on the campaign trail during her Republican presidential primary campaign, but she announced Wednesday she would be voting for him because she preferred his policies on immigration and foreign policy, and Republican strategist Sarah Longwell told CNN she was embarrassed for her.

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NBC News reporter puts final nail in coffin of Trump 'assassination' conspiracy theory

NBC News' Ken Dilanian on Thursday slammed the door shut on a MAGA conspiracy theory about President Joe Biden ordering the FBI to "assassinate" him.

The conspiracy theory in question came from documents related to the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago for top-secret government documents, as it gave the authorization for agents to use deadly force during the search if they were faced with a life-threatening danger.

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