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MAGA radio host Megyn Kelly triggered a meltdown among MAGA fans on Monday after her appearance on "Piers Morgan Uncensored."

During the interview, Kelly claimed that Ben Shapiro was trying to evict her from the conservative movement because she had criticized him. The feud stems from a radio show Kelly did when she refused to criticize Candace Owens for her comments about Erika Kirk and the death of her husband, the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

President Donald Trump's voters stunned a political analyst on Monday after they accused the president of staging another "false flag" attack.

Nine voters who voted for Trump at least twice told The Bulwark that they believe Trump may have staged the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Some noted that the circumstances of the shooting seem implausible, given the level of security that follows the president.

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow kicked off Monday night with an in-depth analysis of how President Donald Trump's Justice Department, now under the control of Todd Blanche, is finding itself in trouble with judges for lying in court in pursuit of political gains.

"There is a lot that the U.S. government and this presidential administration is failing at right now — in the courts, in public opinion, in politics, in the technocratic and practical functions of government," said Maddow. "Even some of their schemes and scams are falling apart every day, every news cycle. The list just piles up of things at which they are failing."

The "cynical" Supreme Court just handed down the "saddest legacy" ever written, according to one lawyer.

Dave Aronberg, the former state attorney in Florida, said on a recent episode of the "Legal AF" podcast that the Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais showed the court is no longer willing to be a "guardrail for democracy." The ruling invalidated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibited states from racially gerrymandering their election maps.

The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for Louisiana to redraw its congressional map and dismantle a majority-Black district — and in doing so exposed a rare and bitter public feud between conservative Justice Samuel Alito and liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The court's brief order, issued 6-3 along ideological lines, resolved a technical procedural question about when last week's blockbuster ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act takes effect in Louisiana. Raw, personal language in the justices' writings drew the most attention, according to CNN.

Democrats are hoping to unseat a pair of Georgia Supreme Court justices this month, in what would be the first time in more than 100 years that a sitting state justice has lost election — but according to Bolts Magazine, a ruling from the court itself created a massive flaw in the system that potentially lets the justices cancel their own election after losing, and one of them is not responding to questions about whether they will take advantage of it.

"Two liberal lawyers, former Democratic state Senator Jen Jordan and personal injury attorney Miracle Rankin, are seeking to oust Justices Sarah Warren and Charlie Bethel, respectively, and all but Warren agreed to interviews with Bolts," said the report. "The elections are officially nonpartisan, but the challengers are running with Democratic Party backing, while Governor Brian Kemp and other Republicans have rallied around the incumbents."

Former Dallas Field Office FBI Special Agent Matthew DeSarno endorsed Democratic state Rep. James Talarico for Senate in Texas in an op-ed for the conservative-leaning Dallas Morning News published on Monday, during which he also took swipes at MAGA Attorney General Ken Paxton and Republican incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.

Cornyn is currently in a fight for his political life as he navigates a fiery primary runoff with Paxton, who has gained a commanding lead in polls, as President Donald Trump, who has worked with both of them, chooses not to get involved. Meanwhile, Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian and former teacher, has managed to build a passionate following and a competitive position in the most recent polls, hoping to break a three-decade losing streak for the Democratic Party in Texas.

A red state Republican leader on Monday publicly defied President Donald Trump's calls to gerrymander his state's election map.

Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina told reporters that he is not prepared to call the state legislature into a special session to redraw the state's congressional election map, the Post and Courier reported. Several states, from Florida to Alabama and Louisiana, have begun efforts to redraw their maps following the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which held that states may gerrymander their maps for partisan purposes even if the resulting maps have racially discriminatory effects.

The federal government quietly paid out more than $338,000 to settle sexual harassment allegations against House members and their offices since 2004 — nearly double what lawmakers were told during the last period of intense scrutiny in 2017, according to a new report based on data released Monday by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC).

Mace, a member of the House Oversight Committee, released a list of nine payments made before Congress banned taxpayer-funded harassment settlements in 2018. The offices implicated include former Reps. Eric Massa (D-NY), John Conyers (D-MI), Blake Farenthold (R-TX) and Patrick Meehan (R-PA) — all previously linked to misconduct — as well as two new revelations involving the late Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and former Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-LA).

A Secret Service agent was arrested on allegations of engaging in obscene behavior in the hallway of a DoubleTree hotel in South Florida, according to Sheldon Fox of 7News.

The agent, identified as Officer John A. Spillman, was arrested for allegedly performing a sex act on himself in a hotel hallway, "following a woman and forcing her to retreat to her room for safety," according to Fox. "The Secret Service tells #7News Spillman was in Miami-Dade 'as part of the security screening detail at Trump Doral for the president's visit.' He was not part of President Trump’s 'details other [than] for perimeter security. He was off duty when arrested.'"

President Donald Trump's niece sounded off against her uncle's war in Iran in a new Substack essay on Monday.

Mary Trump, a psychologist and author, argued that Americans are just starting to pay the "cost of chaos" of her uncle's war. She noted that the economic fallout from the war is "staggering," as the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas predicts a 2.9% drop in global GDP because of the war.

Some Republicans fear President Donald Trump is "wasting time" touting his signature policy bill from last year, Politico reported on Monday — and they want him to course correct as his polls appear to have the whole party headed for a wipeout.

This comes as Trump tries again to sell his "Big Beautiful Bill" that cut taxes while eliminating over $1 trillion from Medicaid and food assistance over the next decade; a sell that becomes harder as voters are naturally less inclined to trust him.

A gunman exchanged fire with Secret Service agents near the Washington Monument on Monday, hitting a teenage bystander in the crossfire, according to officials.

The suspect, who has not been publicly identified, was shot and taken into custody after he opened fire on agents who had approached him on the National Mall, Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn told reporters, according to The New York Times. A teenage bystander was also taken to a hospital.