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CNN's Fareed Zakaria buried U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito for displaying a MAGA symbol outside his home in the days between the Jan. 6 insurrection and president Joe Biden's inauguration.

The conservative justice claims his wife flew an upside-down American flag, which some of the U.S. Capitol riots carried during the violent insurrection, in response to a neighbor's sign she found personally insulting, and Zakaria dismissed his explanation as absurd and insufficient.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) chaotic insult-lobbing in the House of Representatives Thursday night led to additional insult-lobbing by a Democratic colleague on Friday morning.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) joined the fray during a CNN interview in which he bashed Greene for her behavior in the House and her headline-making campaign tactics outside of it.

The threat to democracy will continue even if former President Donald Trump loses the election, wrote Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times on Friday — because he is already preparing to attack the democratic process all over again.

"For Trump, a man who seems to live in the eternal present, 'stop the steal' never actually ended," wrote Bouie. "He maintains, as he did on Nov. 3, 2020, that he won the presidential election that put Joe Biden in the White House. Last month, he told an audience in Wisconsin, 'We won this state by a lot.'" (He lost it by 20,682 votes.)

Donald Trump's allies poured more than $90 million into an advertising campaign that flooded the airwaves with TV ads described as "deeply offensive" and often misleading, according to a new analysis.

The dark money group Citizens for Sanity, which formed in mid-2022 and has ties to Trump's inner circle, ran ads during the World Series and other broadcasts in battleground states with hateful messages about LGBTQ people and featuring disturbing images of violent crime involving Black people, according to new tax records obtained by Documented and the Guardian.

Former President Donald Trump is trying to figure out how to motivate his supporters to the polls this fall, wrote Chauncey DeVega for Salon on Friday — and to do that he is trying to horrify them.

"The consultants and strategists who are using fear and horror to mobilize and engage Donald Trump’s followers (and to demobilize and exhaust those Americans who oppose the corrupt ex-president and the fascist MAGA movement) appear to possess an expert understanding of human psychology," wrote DeVega.

Republican operative Scott Jennings on Friday went on CNN to accuse Democrats of taking Black voters for granted, but former Democratic South Carolina State Rep. Bakari Sellers was quick to slap him down.

During a discussion on President Joe Biden's newly planned outreach to Black voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election, Jennings claimed that Black voters were flocking to former President Donald Trump despite his long history of racist rhetoric.

Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) rapid-pace transformation from a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump into a disciple desperately seeking running-mate status mirrors the Republican Party’s descent into the year’s biggest political joke, a new Washington Post editorial argues.

Columnist Matt Bai on Friday delivered a walloping take-down of the junior Republican senator from Ohio who appeared in a bright red tie this week at Trump’s criminal hush money trial.

Republican lawmakers traveling to former President Donald Trump's trial in Manhattan were slammed as "synchronized sycophants" by Dana Milbank in a blistering editorial for The Washington Post released on Friday.

Several days of the trial have now seen these Trump allies, all the way up to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), delivering manifestos against the prosecution and against court officers and their families. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) even proudly admitted they were there to attack people Trump was barred from going after under his gag order.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called for a major change to force U.S. Supreme Court justices to follow their own rules in response to Justice Samuel Alito displaying a MAGA symbol outside his home while the court was considering 2020 election cases.

The conservative justice blames his wife for flying the upside-down American flag outside their Virginia home, which he said was in response to a neighbor's "personally insulting" sign, but the Connecticut Democrat told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the court needed an inspector general to force the justices to play by the rules.

Reuters has released a lengthy report documenting a plan being hatched by President Donald Trump's allies to transform the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation into an "attack dog for conservative causes."

The plan would essentially gut the wall of separation that has existed between the DOJ and the White House that was erected in the wake of former President Richard Nixon weaponizing law enforcement agencies against his political opponents.

U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito is blaming his wife for an upside-down American flag displayed outside his home after the 2020 election, and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson called the scandal another example of why he's one of the worst in history.

The inverted flag is considered a signal of distress, and some of Donald Trump's supporters adopted the symbol to protest Joe Biden's election win -- and even carried them during the U.S. Capitol riot -- and Robinson agreed with MSNBC's Joe Scarborough that his explanation was bogus.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito as "disgusting" for displaying an upside-down American flag outside his home in the days between the Jan. 6 insurrection and president Joe Biden's inauguration.

The New York Times published photos of the inverted flag taken Jan. 17, 2021, and Alito told the newspaper that his wife placed it briefly outside their Alexandria, Virginia, home in response to a neighbor's sign that used "objectionable and personally insulting language," and the "Morning Joe" host called his explanation laughable.