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Read MoreConservative Supreme Court justices appear open to narrowing Voting Rights Act protections
Several of the Supreme Court's conservative justices on Tuesday seemed open to raising the legal bar for challenging electoral maps under the Voting Rights Act, which could have the effect of narrowing protections for voters of color. During oral argument, the court's conservatives wrestled with what legal test should apply to determine whether the mismatch between Alabama’s Black population and its disproportionately low representation in Congress amounts to illegal discrimination. Although the Republican-appointed justices' questions fell well short of telegraphing a c
Read MoreCook Political Report shifts Pennsylvania Senate race back to 'toss up'
The Cook Political Report on Tuesday moved Pennsylvania's Senate race back into its "toss up" category, less than two months after moving the contest into the "lean Democratic" column. The nonpartisan election forecaster cited recent polls showin
Read MoreGOP blasts media over Herschel Walker stories
Top Republicans and GOP groups are sticking by Herschel Walker's Senate campaign in Georgia after a report emerged a day earlier saying that the GOP nominee paid for a girlfriend’s abortion in 2009. The two leading Republican groups involved in Senate races, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Senate Leadership Fund, both announced on Tuesday that they are not backing off and will continue to press forward in Georgia to unseat Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.). They both argued that the latest revelation is nothing more than a distraction and laid blame at the feet of
Read MoreThe Hill's Morning Report — Will justices redefine EPA’s power over clean water?
The Supreme Court on Monday began its new term with arguments about wetlands and the regulatory reach of the Environmental Protection Agency as newcomer Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dove in with questions. The case stemmed from a 2007 property dispute in which Idaho landowners Michael and Chantell Sackett were told they needed a federal permit to build a home on land they owned because it supposedly contained regulated wetlands under the Clean Water Act. The Sacketts believe the government’s power over their plans to build is too
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