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June 27, 2023

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Here’s a quick look at today’s top legal news.

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US Supreme Court rejects bid to give lawmakers unchecked power over elections

REUTERS/Jonathan Drake

The U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed a legal theory favored by many conservatives that could hand sweeping power to state legislatures to establish rules for presidential and congressional elections and draft electoral maps giving huge advantages to the party already in control.

The once-marginal legal theory, called the “independent state legislature” doctrine, would remove any role of state courts and state constitutions in regulating federal elections. The theory is based in part on the U.S. Constitution’s statement that the “times, places and manner” of federal elections “shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.”

The justices, in a 6-3 decision authored by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, ruled against Republican state legislators in a case arising from a legal fight over their map of North Carolina’s 14 U.S. House of Representatives districts. The state’s top court last year blocked the map as unlawfully biased against Democratic voters. Read more.

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Donald Trump’s many legal challenges

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Here’s the latest news in the array of criminal and civil claims former president Donald Trump is facing:

A New York appeals court rejected Trump’s bid to dismiss Attorney General Letitia James’ civil lawsuit accusing Trump and his family business of a ‘staggering’ fraud, but narrowed the case and dismissed all claims against Ivanka Trump.
In the documents case, a lawyer for Trump aide Walt Nauta told a federal judge that he could not yet enter a plea in the case that accuses him of helping the former president hide national security documents because he still does not have local counsel in Florida. U.S. Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres postponed Nauta’s arraignment for a second time, to July 6.
Trump’s lawyers will ask a federal judge to transfer to federal court from New York state court a criminal case accusing the former president of falsifying business records tied to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

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