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Louisiana's MAGA Gov. Jeff Landry, a close ally of President Donald Trump's, just sent a chilling message with his latest "corrupt" order, according to one expert.

Marc Elias, a voting rights attorney, discussed Landry's recent State of Emergency declaration, signed last week, on a new episode of "Democracy Watch" with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on Sunday. Landry's order canceled the upcoming congressional election in his state as Louisiana lawmakers work to pass a new election map. The order followed the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which found that states can politically gerrymander their maps, even if it effectively creates a racial gerrymander that was once prohibited under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the U.S. will guide the ships of "neutral and innocent bystanders" out of the Strait of Hormuz as negotiations to end the war in Iran continue.

The announcement came at a time when negotiations between the U.S. and Iran are at a rocky point. Trump recently rejected two peace plans offered by the Iranians because they asked him to delay talks about the country's nuclear capabilities in exchange for reopening the Strait of Hormuz entirely.

A civil rights icon said on Sunday that the Supreme Court's recent "seismic shock" echoes back to a time when the U.S. government used its power to prevent Black people from being able to vote.

Press Robinson, 88, who was the first member of his family to vote and the first Black member of the Baton Rouge school board, told the Washington Post recently that the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais is likely to undo decades of progress made to guarantee communities of color the right to vote. He added that the efforts are unlikely to be contained in Louisiana, and that it shows discrimination is not yet gone from American life.

A foreign affairs expert shared a sobering warning about President Donald Trump during a new interview on MS NOW.

Tim Nichols, a staff writer at The Atlantic, told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House: Weekend" that Trump's personal "defect" appears to be getting worse, and there doesn't appear to be anyone around the president who can blunt the impact of that decline. That is happening at a time when the country is gearing up for one of the most consequential elections in recent history, and Trump has shown signs that he may be unwilling to accept the results if the election goes against him.

President Donald Trump sparked fresh health concerns over the weekend after he made an impromptu visit to his dentist in Florida.

According to reports, Trump was whisked away from his golf club outside of Jupiter, Florida, on Saturday for what the White House described as a "scheduled visit to his dentist." In all, the president was gone for about two hours, according to reports. However, political observers and analysts noted that no such appointment appeared on Trump's public schedule, and that the last time Trump had a dentist appointment was in January.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stunned political analysts and observers on Sunday with a strange argument in defense of President Donald Trump's election scheme.

Blanche discussed some of the major election changes the Trump administration is pushing for, including adding nationwide voter ID laws, during an interview on "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning. Blanche argued that having voter ID laws is a common-sense solution to cases of alleged voter fraud, but his reasoning left many with their jaws on the floor.

President Donald Trump’s SAVE Act, his voter ID bill that critics say could dramatically suppress voter turnout, could benefit Republicans electorally far more “than has previously been understood,” two academic researchers claimed Sunday after analyzing a comprehensive postelection survey.

“What we find, looking state by state, is that the bill may significantly advantage Republicans in a few key ones,” reads an op-ed written by researchers Ian Ayres, a professor at Yale Law School, and Jacob Slaughter, a pre-doctoral fellow at the Tobin Center for Economic Policy, published in The Washington Post on Sunday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's damning slip-up during his Congressional testimony last week revealed just how little President Donald Trump's war in Iran has accomplished, according to a former federal prosecutor.

Glenn Kirschner, a former Department of Justice prosecutor, argued during a new episode of his "Justice Matters" podcast that Hegseth accidentally admitted something important during an exchange with Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA). Hegseth seemed confused as to whether Iran's nuclear facilities had been "completely obliterated" during a strike on them last year, as he claimed during the hearing, or whether the country still had nuclear capabilities that warranted another strike.