Political scholars often describe the U.S. Supreme Court as one of the three “co-equal branches of government” in the United States’ system of checks and balances.

The North Carolina Appeals Court has cemented the state legislature’s “power grab” over elections, taking control from the State Board of Elections and handing it to Republican State Auditor Dave Boliek a local reporter said.

President Donald Trump has suffered a string of defeat in the last few weeks, but veteran, activist and “Independent Americans Podcast” host Paul Rieckhoff, told CNN Wednesday that he should get accustomed to that losing sensation.

As a devastating new Fox News poll reveals 63% of Americans believe the president is destroying the economy, veteran analyst Brit Hume warns that surging grocery and gas prices are completely sinking the GOP ahead of the midterms.

President Donald Trump’s dogged insistence to put his name on a memorial built to honor a different president appears more and more difficult to defend. One by one, even Trump’s own strategists and Republican allies are warning him to surrender what looks like a “juvenile” crusade.

George Will, in his Washington Post column, hopes that South Carolina will show “independence” from Trump in this race.

On Wednesday, a whistleblower from President Donald Trump’s first term revealed how FBI agents may be used as part of a “voter suppression” scheme to sway the fast-approaching midterms.

This week, a judge shut down Trump’s demand to add some kind of tribute to himself at the Kennedy Center, resulting in a presidential “tantrum” with its board, according to the one Democrat left on the board. The board then ordered that the theatre be shut down entirely.

“For many Republicans, their big problem is going to be reminding their own voters, Republican voters, what is it that you sent us to Washington to do? Because if those voters are looking at DC and they’re going, ‘oh, you renamed the Lake of America, uh, you renamed the Kennedy center.’ Like, that is not what voters are looking for. They’re looking for things that they can feel. And even if you can’t turn the titanic around in a couple of weeks and make people think the economy is wonderful, you have to at least be able to say, ‘here are the things concretely that we have done to try to make it better. Keep us here. We’ll keep trying to do more.’”

Columnist Jamelle Bouie warns that the total collapse of the traditional Republican establishment has opened the floodgates to far-right operatives.