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Donald Trump's immunity claim has been denied, court records show.

The New York Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied Trump's request Monday to reconsider his immunity claim in the civil lawsuit brought by former journalist E. Jean Carroll, court records show.

Rudy Giuliani, one of several people charged in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' Georgia election racketeering case, is demanding to question former co-defendants who took plea deals, reported The Messenger on Monday.

"In a four-page motion, Giuliani's attorneys argued they 'will be unable to properly investigate the facts of this case unless Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issues an order requiring the former co-defendants to be made available for interviews,'" reported Steve Reilly.

Former President Donald Trump was the subject of a brutal fact-check Monday after legal experts found his election flier claims that his court cases were keeping him from the campaign trail.

MSNBC legal expert Lisa Rubin took to the airwaves Monday to explain Trump doesn't have to appear in court this week for his cases after an email to supporters went viral.

Special counsel Jack Smith has a more compelling case than ever in the election conspiracy prosecution of former President Donald Trump, one-time federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said on MSNBC Monday.

This comes amid new bombshell reporting that Dan Scavino, a longtime Trump associate, told investigators the former president "was just not interested" in doing more to stop the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Former Harvard Law professor and celebrity defense attorney Alan Dershowitz has consistently denied allegations that he took part in sexual assaults at parties held by deceased sex-trafficking billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

And, according to The Daily Beast, recently released documents show that he defended himself partly by pointing out how many of his fellow academics at Harvard also fit the description a lawyer representing one of the victims says applies to him.

President Joe Biden seemed to rebuke Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Monday after she failed to cite slavery as the cause of the U.S. Civil War. He also slammed Donald Trump's claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

While speaking at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Biden addressed Haley's remarks without saying her name.

Although polls are currently showing that former President Donald Trump has a slight lead in the 2024 presidential race, The Bulwark's Jonathan Last argues that Trump's polls are hitting a "high-water mark" — and are unlikely to improve once the general election campaign begins properly.

Among other things, Last argues that Trump has essentially been gliding to the Republican Party presidential nomination and running against rivals who have been loathe to actually criticize him or his record.

Republican Conference chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press" if she'd commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election — to which she replied, “We will see if this is a legal and valid election."

“What we’re seeing so far is that Democrats are so desperate, they’re trying to remove President Trump from the ballot," she added, referring to state-level efforts to disqualify him under an insurrectionist clause in the Constitution.

This year's presidential election is shaping up to be a rematch of 2020's contest, and the weirdness of that election and its aftermath will almost certainly carry over into this one.

The pandemic upended everyday life four years ago, and Donald Trump disrupted the peaceful transition of power by refusing to accept his election loss to Joe Biden. He tried a variety of schemes to remain in power and incited his followers to attempt a violent insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 — and he's made it plain those efforts are unfinished, wrote Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton.

During an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) boasted to host Maria Bartiromo that his Republicans have damning evidence that will once and for all lead to the impeachment of President Joe Biden.

However, as MSNBC's Steve Benen pointed out, Jordan was trying to pull a fast one on Fox viewers by touting information that was debunked in the middle of last year.