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President Donald Trump's second-in-command at the Justice Department, Todd Blanche, is facing a rising wave of anger from pro-Trump influencers, who believe he is to blame for the scuttling of a plot to spring a martyred election conspiracy theorist from prison, Will Sommer reported for The Bulwark on Monday evening.

Blanche, who got his start as a personal defense lawyer for Trump before being named Deputy Attorney General, hasn't often been on the radar of MAGA, as they have vented against Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel for the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files controversy.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, celebrated a court ruling on Monday that could pave the way for the Ten Commandments to be shown in public schools.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is known as the most conservative district in the country, ruled on Monday that it would reconsider a lower court's order prohibiting the Ten Commandments from being displayed. The previous opinion was issued in June by a unanimous three-judge panel that found a new state law requiring elementary and secondary public schools in Louisiana to display the commandments was "plainly unconstitutional."

A group of House Democrats is demanding that the departments of Homeland Security and Education provide answers for the deportation of K-12 students by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

According to an investigation published last week by The Guardian, since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, “nearly 2,350 kids under the age of 18, including 36 infants, have been booked into immigration detention centers around the country.”

The Trump White House chided a former daytime television star on Monday after she applied for foreign citizenship, according to reports.

Rosie O'Donnell, who has beefed with Trump for several years, recently applied to become a citizen of Ireland. She left the United States earlier this year after Trump was elected for his second term.

It isn't just liberals outraged over Paramount's decision to buy right-wing journalist Bari Weiss' Free Press for $150 million, Will Sommer wrote in his False Flag newsletter for The Bulwark — a lot of MAGA influencers also think the deal is ridiculous.

The deal, which comes as Weiss is set to be named editor-in-chief of CBS News under the Paramount umbrella, comes amid Weiss's long history of attempts to promote conservative representation in educated spaces, including her involvement in establishing a private liberal-arts school called the University of Austin that is still in the process of seeking accreditation.

President Donald Trump's stunning remark, leaving the door open to pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, led to a desperate plea to reverse course from right-wing ally Laura Loomer and MAGA fans.

During a news conference on Monday, CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins asked Trump whether he was considering pardoning Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking. Trump suggested he was unaware of critical facts in Maxwell's case, and told Collins he would have to "look at" her case to determine if a pardon was necessary.

A former White House cabinet secretary warned in a new essay Monday that President Donald Trump and a cadre of three officials are putting Americans in "imminent danger."

Robert Reich, who served as Labor Secretary during the Clinton administration, wrote in a new Substack essay that Trump appears to be creating conditions for either martial law or civil war. His comments come at a time when the president is deploying troops from red states into blue states.

A Republican state senator in Utah has threatened that a judge who tossed out the GOP-drawn gerrymandered congressional map could face impeachment if she rejects the still-gerrymandered map the legislature is advancing to replace it.

Additionally, he even suggested impeaching the Republican lieutenant governor of the state, Deidre Henderson, if she uses a congressional map other than the one the legislature selects to certify election results in a year.

Stephen Miller has received brutal assessments from his own family, with more posts surfacing this week from his 75-year-old uncle agreeing with a comment that Miller is a "depraved fiend."

The Daily Beast reported Monday on posts made by Dr. David Glosser, a retired neuropsychologist, in recent months critical of President Donald Trump and Miller, his White House deputy chief of staff for policy.

The Trump administration drafted a classified analysis that permitted itself to summarily order airstrikes on ships allegedly operated by a specific list of drug cartels, reported CNN on Monday.

"The opinion, which was produced by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel and has not been previously reported, argues that the president is allowed to authorize deadly force against a broad range of cartels because they pose an imminent threat to Americans," reported Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen. "The list of cartels goes beyond those the administration has publicly designated as terrorist organizations, the people familiar with the opinion said."

Jon Favreau, the former speechwriting director for President Barack Obama, issued a stark warning on Monday about what President Donald Trump revealed during his speech at the Navy's 250th anniversary on Sunday.

During the speech, Trump made several other curious statements about his physical health and a debunked claim that he warned the world about Osama Bin Laden in a 2000 book. Favreau described Trump's speech as "crazy pants."