Supreme Court rejects 'independent state legislature' theory |
Three of the Supreme Court's conservative justices and all three liberal justices joined in a 6-3 decision rejecting North Carolina lawmakers' claims that the state Supreme Court couldn't block the legislature's congressional district maps. The case involved the "independent state legislature" theory, which argues the Constitution doesn't allow state courts to restrict legislatures' power to regulate federal elections. The ruling means state courts can continue hearing partisan gerrymander cases, along with challenges to states' federal election policies. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion, "The Elections Clause does not insulate state legislatures from the ordinary exercise of state judicial review." In another decision Tuesday, four conservative and three liberal justices also joined together to vacate the stalking conviction of a Colorado man who sent more than 1,000 online messages to musician Coles Whalen. Two conservative justices dissented. The case included the question of when states can prosecute "true threats" not protected by the First Amendment. Justice Elana Kagan wrote for the majority, "The State must show that the defendant consciously disregarded a substantial risk that his communications would be viewed as threatening violence." Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Neil Gorsuch "agreed with tossing the man's conviction but they split with the majority in its ruling about true threats more broadly," The Hill's Zach Schonfeld wrote. More coverage of these decisions from The Hill: Stay tuned for more big rulings this week ahead of the court's summer recess. |
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- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, arrived in Belarus following his reported exile from Russia.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman said a tape that appears to feature former President Trump discussing documents in his possession "is game over" for Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, while Trump said the tape exonerates him.
Fox News was the most-watched cable news network in the second quarter with an average 1.1 million daily viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research data.
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Investigators in Jan. 6 case to interview Raffensperger
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Investigators with Special Counsel Jack Smith's office will interview Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) as part of their probe into the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack and efforts to interfere with the transfer of power around the 2020 election. Refresher: Former President Trump tried to convince Raffensperger on a Jan. 2, 2021 phone call that there was evidence of election fraud in Georgia's 2020 presidential election. Trump said on the call, "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state." Trump has defended the call. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) is leading a separate investigation into election interference attempts in Georgia, for which Raffensperger appeared before a grand jury last year. Smith is also leading the investigation into the documents found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, the case in which Trump was indicted earlier this month. Trump pleaded not guilty. |
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Trump, DeSantis criticize records at dueling NH events
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Former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized one another's records at events in New Hampshire Tuesday. At a luncheon with the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women, Trump went after DeSantis on foreign policy, trade and his "votes as a congressman for non-binding budget resolutions to raise the retirement age to 70 for seniors to collect Social Security benefits," The Hill's Brett Samuels wrote.
At his town hall in Hollis, DeSantis framed himself as the candidate who would get things done, saying he was "actually going to build the wall" and that a lot of politicians "make grandiose promises and then fail to deliver the actual results."
A new Saint Anselm College Survey Center poll of the Republican primary shows Trump with 47 percent support and DeSantis with 19 percent among New Hampshire voters. None of the other candidates included received more than 6 percent. The margin of error was 4.4 percentage points. |
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NewsNation hosts RFK Jr. town hall Wednesday
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NewsNation hosts a live town hall with Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET. It's Kennedy's first town hall with a national news network. Find out how to watch here. NewsNation is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which also owns The Hill. |
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AAA expects record Fourth of July travel
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AAA anticipates record travel this Fourth of July holiday weekend, with 50.7 million Americans expected to travel at least 50 miles from home. |
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| Lots of Americans hide their credit card debt
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The Hill's Daniel de Visé looks at trends in credit card debt in the U.S., including people's feelings about their card debt and whether they disclose it to others. |
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"An emboldened West confronts a weakened Russia" — William Courtney, an adjunct senior fellow at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and a former U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan and Georgia. (Read here) "A Russia-Ukraine endgame inches closer" — Robert A. Manning, a distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center who previously served as senior counselor to the undersecretary of State for global affairs, as a member of the U.S. secretary of state's policy planning staff and on the National Intelligence Council Strategic Futures Group. (Read here) |
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497 days until the presidential election. |
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President Biden will deliver remarks on "Bidenomics" in Chicago. |
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