The Supreme Court rejected a last-minute plea from Donald Trump’s Justice Department on Monday, one day before the election, without a single noted dissent.
For years, career Justice Department lawyers kept prosecutors on the sidelines until the votes were certified. The department sued California and Alaska in the last three weeks of this campaign, and Trump said he personally ordered the Alaska lawsuit. Every court to rule on either case has said no.
Judge David Carter turned down the California request after more than 3.7 million people there had already voted. “Never before in American history,” he wrote, had the federal government, on the eve of an election, “sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch.”
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Federal judge orders notice within an hour of any approval for Trump’s arch, as the administration eyes a Nov. 5 construction start.
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Greenland’s parliament ratifies a deal allowing two new US bases and Trump’s Golden Dome, keeping the island Danish after his January takeover threats.
Source: Deutsche Welle
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Trump says the US will end $4 billion a year in Israel military aid, calling it “a bad talking point” for critics like Michigan’s El-Sayed.
Source: The Guardian
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Iran’s parliament speaker says midterm voters “said NO TO WAR,” warning a US government that “betrays their public will” faces “a Nightmare.”
Source: ABC News
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Over 230,000 Mississippi voters are inactive, facing affidavit ballots, after Secretary of State Watson adopted unverified Experian credit data to clean rolls.
Source: Mississippi Today
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Rubio’s State Department negotiates a pact laying groundwork for long-term US troops in Venezuela, as Trump boasts of “our conquest of Venezuela.”
Source: The New York Times [gift link]
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Justice Department sends target letters to 20 Democrats, including lawyer Marc Elias, whom Trump says should “go to jail,” over the second Dan Sullivan on Alaska’s ballot.
Source: The Hill
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ICE agent surrenders on Houston assault charge, accused of running down a fleeing man from behind, as video disputes ICE’s claim he ran in front.
Source: Houston Public Media
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Democrats win both chambers of Congress, taking Senate seats in Texas, Kansas, and South Carolina for the first time in decades.
Source: The Associated Press
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Iowa’s Woodward-Granger school district makes breakfast free for every student through the 2026-27 school year, with no sign-up required.
Source: KCRG Cedar Rapids IA
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Federal judge bars deporting 150-plus Afghans to Afghanistan or Pakistan through Saturday, holding ICE to its word it has no flights this week.
Source: The Independent
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