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Justice Sotomayor received concert tickets from Bad Bunny’s label

2026-06-29 5:19 PM ET / CNN

By John Fritze

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PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2026, 5:19 PM ET

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Bad Bunny.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor received more than $4,000 in concert tickets from a Puerto Rican record label that counts Bad Bunny among its clients, according to a financial disclosure report made public Monday.

Sotomayor, a member of the court’s liberal wing, disclosed receiving $4,333 in concert tickets from Rimas Entertainment “for a concert for me and guests while I was on a private trip to Puerto Rico in August 2025.” Bad Bunny was taking part in a weekslong series of performances in Puerto Rico at that time.

It was one of several notable revelations from the annual disclosure reports from the Supreme Court justices and other members of the judiciary that were made public Monday — hours after the high court handed down some of the most important decisions of its current term.

The justices reported more than $2 million in payments from publishers for books and trips across the country to promote those works.

But it also underscored the lack of detail that’s available in the reports: Nowhere does Sotomayor’s report explicitly mention which concert she attended. A court spokesperson did not respond to questions about Sotomayor’s report.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was nominated by President Joe Biden, reported $1.2 million in book “advance” revenue from Penguin Random House. Jackson continues to tour the country promoting her memoir, “Lovely One,” which she published in 2024. Jackson recently published a young adult version of her book.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was President Donald Trump’s last nominee to the high court, reported nearly $850,000 in revenue from Javelin Group, which last year published her first book, “Listening to the Law.”

Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, has also been appearing at events to promote a children’s book he wrote that is focused on the Declaration of Independence. Gorsuch reported $300,000 in royalty income last year from HarperCollins Publishers.

Supreme Court justices, who earn more than $300,000 a year, are barred from receiving more than about $30,000 in outside income annually. Book revenue is exempt from that policy, creating an incentive for the nine to write beyond their opinions.

Conservative Justice Samuel Alito asked for additional time to file his annual report, as has been his practice over the years.

The justices also listed several trips abroad and in the US.

Barrett, for instance, reported traveling to London last fall for a “legal theory workshop” that was paid for by the University of Notre Dame Law School. Gorsuch traveled to Prague in July for an “educational program” sponsored by George Mason University.

Director Carl Rinsch sentenced to 2.5 years in prison in $11 million fraud case over unfinished Netflix show

June 29, 2026 6:33 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Hollywood writer-director Carl Rinsch was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in prison after being convicted of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million for a never-finished sci-fi series. Supporters, including Keanu Reeves, had asked the court to show him leniency.

Rinsch, best known for the 2013 samurai fantasy film “47 Ronin,” was convicted in December of federal wire fraud and other charges. According to prosecutors and trial testimony, he told Netflix he needed $11 million to finish a show called “White Horse” but diverted the money into a personal account and ultimately spent whopping sums on luxury cars, watches, clothes and household goods, including $638,000 on two mattresses.

Rinsch, 48, and his lawyers told the court Monday that his behavior was fueled by mental health struggles and medication problems, which they said he is now addressing with a new care provider.

“This process has forced me to confront things about my health, my judgment and my life,” Rinsch said. He apologized for his behavior, acknowledged that “real harm was caused,” and explained: “I failed to recognize the danger of the state I was in.”

His psychological troubles weren’t described in court, and he and his lawyers declined to detail them afterward.

Prosecutors argued that Rinsch — who also owes about $11 million in restitution and will be subject to three years of supervised release after his prison sentence — should serve five years in prison.

“Mr. Rinsch had every possible advantage,” including family money, an elite education, famous friends and a high-flying career, prosecutor David Markewitz told the court. Rinsch’s motive, the prosecutor said, “was naked greed.”

Director Carl Erik Rinsch attends the New Directors’ Showcase In Los Angeles presented by Team One, Saatchi LA on September 23, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. John Sciulli

Rinsch, who also has used the name Carl Erik Rinsch professionally, hails from the Los Angeles area and began making short films as a teenager. He later directed commercials, then got attention for 47 Ronin, which stars Reeves. His character leads outcast samurai seeking to avenge their master’s killing.

Rinsch brought “exceptional joy and warmth to the people around him” and “creative inspiration to others through his creativity and vision,” Reeves told the court in a letter ahead of Rinsch’s sentencing.

The “Matrix” star acknowledged that Rinsch “can self-sabotage by amplifying the scale, scope and landscape of what had been negotiated.” But he said he hoped the director’s sentence “might be tempered with measures of leniency and mercy as well as justice.”

Prosecutors said Netflix initially paid Rinsch about $44 million for “White Horse” in 2018 and 2019, then provided another $11 million in 2020 after he said he needed more money to wrap up production.

But instead of putting that money toward the show, Rinsch steered the cash to a personal account and made a series of failed investments, losing around half the $11 million in a couple of months, according to prosecutors and witnesses’ testimony.

They said he put the remaining funds into the cryptocurrency market, netting some profit, which Rinsch deposited into his own bank account.

Then came the lavish purchases, prosecutors said, with Rinsch buying five Rolls-Royces, a red Ferrari, $652,000 worth of watches and clothes, and the pricey mattresses, plus another $295,000 on luxury bedding and linens. In addition, he used some of the money to pay off about $1.8 million in credit card bills, prosecutors said.

“Instead of using the money to make the show, Rinsch made risky bets on highly speculative stock options and cryptocurrency, and spent millions of dollars on luxury goods for himself,” U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton said Monday in a statement. “Today’s sentence sends a deterrent message: fraud will not be tolerated.”

U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said Rinsch’s mental health difficulties “may explain some of the excesses” but don’t “detract from the court’s conclusion that he was determined to lie to get substantial monies from Netflix, lie to cover it up.”

As Rakoff announced the prison term, Rinsch wrote on a piece of paper on a table in front of him. One of his lawyers, Benjamin Zeman, patted the director’s back.

After court, Rinsch — who’s due to report to prison in September — hugged several people who had come to support him. He and his lawyers declined to comment as they left, except that attorney Daniel McGuinness said they looked forward to appealing the case.

Netflix declined to comment on his sentence.

习近平李强赵乐际等出席庆祝中共成立105周年音乐会

2026年6月30日 07:36 / 联合早报

中国共产党星期一（6月29日）举行庆祝成立105周年音乐会，习近平、李强、赵乐际、王沪宁、蔡奇、丁薛祥、李希、韩正等党和国家领导人，同约3000名观众一起观看演出。

据中国央视新闻报道，音乐会《人民至上》当晚在北京举行。在京中共中央政治局委员、中央书记处书记，中央军委副主席，全国人大常委会副委员长，国务委员，最高人民法院院长，最高人民检察院检察长，全国政协副主席观看音乐会。

观看音乐会的还有“中央党政军群各部门和北京市主要负责同志，各民主党派中央、全国工商联负责人和无党派人士代表，功勋荣誉表彰获得者代表，老党员、老干部代表，在华工作的外国专家代表，首都基层党员和各界群众代表，驻京部队官兵代表等”。

中国共产党也将在星期三（7月1日）早上举行庆祝成立105周年大会，习近平将向“七一勋章”获得者颁授勋章并发表讲话。

Trump says he will ‘continue the fight’ after Supreme Court declines to review Carroll abuse verdict

2026-06-29T16:27:08-04:00 / Fox News

Trump called the case ‘weaponization and lawfare’ and accused New York lawmakers of creating a law to target him

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President Donald Trump appeared surprised after the U.S. Supreme Court said it would not hear his appeal of a $5 million verdict that found he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll and later defamed her.

The high court declined to take up the case, leaving the $5 million judgment in place. In 2023, a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in 1996 inside a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, awarding her $5 million. In 2024, another jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in a separate defamation case over Trump’s denials and attacks after she accused him.

The justices did not provide an explanation for Monday’s decision.

“Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to ‘review’ a Fake Case brought against me by a woman I never met (Decades old celebrity photo line, standing with her husband, does not count!),” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I will continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength.”

TRUMP REQUESTS E JEAN CARROLL $83M JUDGMENT STAY FOR PENDING SUPREME COURT ACTION ON PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY

The Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal by President Donald Trump to consider the verdict in the E. Jean Carroll case.(Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Alex Kent/Getty Images)

“This Case is really against the United States of America, and all it stands for,” he added, “and should never be allowed to happen to another President, or Candidate to be!”

Trump’s attorneys argued that the trial judge violated federal evidence rules by admitting the infamous Access Hollywood tape — in which Trump is heard bragging about grabbing women by their genitals — and by allowing the jury to hear from two other women who accused Trump of sexual assault, allegations he denies.

Carroll’s lawyers countered that the women’s testimony was relevant because the allegations were highly similar, and they noted that Judge Lewis Kaplan’s evidentiary decisions aligned with legal precedents across the country.

FEDERAL APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS $83.3M E. JEAN CARROLL JUDGMENT AGAINST TRUMP

Rain clouds roll over the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2026.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“Today’s Supreme Court decision affirms once and for all the jury’s unanimous verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll. His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed, and today’s ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions,” said Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s attorney.

In a separate statement, Trump’s legal team stated: “The American People stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes. President Trump will keep winning against Liberal Lawfare, as he continues to focus on his mission to Make America Great Again.”

Columnist E. Jean Carroll discusses her reaction to the verdict against Donald Trump during an interview on CBS Mornings.(Screenshot/CBS Mornings)

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In his Truth Social post, Trump also accused New York state lawmakers of explicitly targeting him.

“New York State created a Law, for an instant speck of time, going back many decades, in order to wrongfully ‘nab’ me,” he wrote. “It was tailor-made, and this Injustice cannot be allowed to stand!”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Louis Casiano is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to louis.casiano@fox.com.

After mysterious four-month absence, GOP congressman plans grand return

2026-06-29 6:39 PM ET / CNN

By Nina Giraldo, Sarah Ferris

Westfield, New Jersey—

One day before Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. planned to return to Washington, the long-missing congressman sat on the steps of his tidy Tudor-style home in North Jersey, sifting through mail beside his wife.

Kean, wearing a gray polo, offered a casual wave and headed inside when he noticed a reporter from CNN on his street. Then, he dispatched a spokesperson for his campaign to deliver a message that his own GOP colleagues have been eager to hear for months.

The 57-year-old congressman will be “fully transparent” about his nearly four-month absence when he returns to Washington on Tuesday, spokesperson Harrison Neely told CNN.

Upon his return, the two-term Republican is planning to deliver a floor speech that is expected to address his unexplained health condition, according to a person familiar with the plans. For months, Kean’s family and his aides have said little about his absence except that he is recovering from a medical condition and is “under a doctor’s care,” even as fellow Republicans have publicly urged him to divulge more information.

His absence has rattled House Republicans, who are worried it could complicate the GOP’s ability to hold onto a critical swing seat in an already difficult midterm cycle, multiple sources previously told CNN.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has spoken by phone with Kean and has said publicly that he’s urged Kean to explain his absence to his voters.

Party leaders and senior aides have repeatedly told CNN they do not have any idea where Kean is, a rarity for a House GOP leadership team tasked with keeping close contact with rank-and-file members as they navigate their historically narrow majority. He has missed hundreds of votes — many close — since early March.

His interaction with a CNN reporter on Monday appears to be only his second documented sighting in months, after he was first spotted at his Westfield home by The New York Times last week.

Rep. Tom Kean attends a hearing on Capitol Hill in December 2023.

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The office door of Rep. Tom Kean Jr. at the Cannon House Office Building on May 14, 2026.

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In the meantime, senior leadership staff have been left to speculate about his ailment and why he would choose not to disclose it for months. Lawmakers who believed they were close to him have been irked by unreturned messages. Democratic operatives have stepped up their attacks, newly confident they can flip his competitive battleground seat.

It’s not unusual for members of Congress to take medical leave, sometimes unable to vote for weeks at a time. But even GOP aides privately admit they are frustrated with how Kean’s aides have handled his absence, refusing to disclose his health condition and leaving his constituents in the dark.

The New Jersey congressman said in late April on social media that he’s dealing with a “personal medical issue,” without specifying what it is, and said he would be back “very soon.” Late last month, he told The New Jersey Globe that he’d be back in the “next couple of weeks.”

In early June, Kean ran unopposed in a primary, with some GOP operatives privately unsure whether he would be on the ticket in November. Kean’s office said in public statements that he planned to run for reelection.

His Democratic opponent, Rebecca Bennett, has said​ little about Kean’s absence. But the House Democratic campaign chief, Suzan Delbene, has insisted he must be transparent.

“Clearly, I wish him the best, but it is his job also to be transparent with his community and there has been no clarity about why he has been gone so long,” Delbene recently told a group of local reporters, according to The New Jersey Globe.

Some Russian soldiers last just minutes on front lines against Ukraine’s drones, military bloggers say

June 29, 2026 / 6:09 PM EDT / CBS News

Kyiv — Once Russian soldiers reach certain parts of the front lines of the war in Ukraine, they can expect to live an average of just 20 to 35 minutes, according to a grim estimate by Russian military bloggers, cited by Oxford historian Peter Frankopan in a Foreign Policy report. CBS News has not independently verified the claim. But similar accounts are becoming increasingly common on Russian military channels, suggesting that more Russians are becoming aware of the war and its toll on their side — a toll Kremlin officials have long sought to shield from view.

The war has inflicted staggering losses on Russia’s young men. The director of the British intelligence agency GCHQ said last month that Russian war deaths have now likely reached nearly 500,000. Ukraine’s defense ministry says it has taken over 1.4 million wounded or killed Russian troops off the battlefield.

As drones have saturated the front lines — creating what is known as the “kill zone” — Russia is losing men at faster rates. Unable to rely on heavy artillery, now easily picked off by cheap first-person-view drones, Russia’s military has turned to infiltration tactics: using small groups of soldiers on foot or motorcycles to probe weaknesses in Ukraine’s lines.

This has resulted in bloodier fighting. Drones now account for more than 80% of Russian losses, according to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. And estimates suggest that there are now more Russians killed in the war than there are wounded, a first in modern warfare.

Ukraine faces its own manpower problems and must resort to similar infiltration tactics to push back Russian lines.

“Manpower’s been a problem since the end of the summer of 2023 offensive,” Rob Lee, a Ukraine-based military analyst, told CBS News. “We’ve had some cases where infantry have spent more than a year in position with no rotation.”

But Ukraine’s military has managed to more effectively reduce its soldiers’ exposure to danger by using drones to replace some troops in combat, medical evacuation and logistics roles.

“We say there is no need to send a human being where the robot can do the job,” Oleksandr Kamyshin, the official in charge of Ukraine’s defense industry, told CBS News in an interview this spring. By some estimates, Russia is now losing eight men killed or seriously wounded for every one lost by Ukraine.

Russia’s relentless waves of men have yielded some success on the battlefield. While Ukraine’s top general said that his military had retaken over 230 square miles of territory this year, Russia is still gaining ground in crucial areas in and around Ukraine’s coveted Donetsk region. Ukrainian commanders said last week that Russian soldiers are attempting to infiltrate the outskirts of Kostyantynivka, an industrial city in Donetsk.

But more Russians are beginning to feel the war’s toll firsthand.

In a Russian nationwide public opinion survey released Monday by the Institute for Conflict Studies and Analysis of Russia, a Ukrainian think tank, 31% of respondents said one or more of their family members have been mobilized, a 14% increase from 2022.

Oleksandr Shulga, the head of the think tank, cautioned that the findings should not be overstated: “Even after four years, the majority of Russians do not perceive this war as existential.”

Still, he said, “Most Russians know someone killed in action since the beginning of the war: only 29% said that no one among their relatives or acquaintances has died in the fighting.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/russia-war-rages-on-as-ukraine-generals-claim-advances-against-putins-troops/

温网首日：辛纳脚伤后逆转胜 乔天王苦战击败吴易昺

2026年6月30日 07:38 / 联合早报

辛纳历经五盘大战力克塞尔维亚选手凯茨曼诺维奇。 （法新社）

（伦敦法新电伦）在星期一（6月29日）展开的温布登网球锦标赛首日争夺中，卫冕冠军辛纳（Sinner）历经五盘大战力克塞尔维亚选手凯茨曼诺维奇（Kecmanovic），而后者的同胞乔科维奇（Djokovic）也费尽九牛二虎之力才击败了中国好手吴易昺。

辛纳在星期一的比赛中险些成为公开赛年代以来，第三位在温网首轮出局的男单卫冕冠军。在大比分1比2落后的绝境下，这位意大利世界第一名将最终以4比6、6比3、6比7（6）、6比2、6比3逆转过关。这也是他最近六次五盘大战中首次取得胜利。

辛纳在这场耗时3小时28分钟的硬仗中一度摔倒中伤及右脚，鲜血甚至染红了他的球鞋。但在稍作调整后，他依旧一瘸一拐地坚持完成了比赛。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcClS72tQs0

由于两届温网冠军阿尔卡拉斯（Alcaraz）因腕伤缺阵，辛纳被视为成为公开赛年代第10位成功卫冕温网男单冠军的头号热门。目前这位24岁的名将正向着个人第五座大满贯奖杯发起冲击。

在星期三的次轮对决前，辛纳强调这次的脚伤并不会对他的后续比赛造成影响。他说：“我很好，这只是看起来比实际情况严重得多。老实说，我很惊讶裁判居然让我继续打比赛，因为我的全白战袍都快变成红色的了！其实只是指甲盖受了点伤。”

在阿尔卡拉斯缺席的情况下，七届温网冠军乔科维奇被视为辛纳卫冕路上的最大劲敌。这位39岁的塞尔维亚天王目前正冲击男女网坛历史纪录的第25座大满贯单打冠军奖杯。如果他能在7月12日成功捧杯，他将成为公开赛年代以来年纪最大的大满贯男单冠军得主。

乔科维奇在赢得比赛后和中国对手吴易昺握手。（路透社）

不过要想达成这一历史性伟业，乔科维奇需要拿出比首轮更好的状态。在贝克汉姆（Beckham）、饶舌歌手“Bad Bunny”等名流的现场观战下，乔科维奇苦战超过三小时，才以6比4、5比7、6比4、6比4艰难击败世界排名第102位的吴易昺。

将在第二轮对阵希腊选手西西帕斯（Tsitsipas）的乔科维奇赛后说：“今天对我来说是一次巨大的挑战。赢球很开心，但感觉身体不是最优秀的状态。老实说，这完全不像是第一轮的比赛强度。”

阿丽娜轻松夺开门红

女单赛场方面，世界第一阿丽娜·萨巴伦卡（Aryna Sabalenka）仅耗时65分钟，便以6比2、6比3横扫塞尔维亚资格赛选手特奥多拉·科斯托维奇（Teodora Kostovic）。尽管作为四届大满贯得主，但这位28岁的白俄罗斯名将此前从未打进过温网决赛。她将在次轮迎战美国选手麦卡特尼·凯斯勒（McCartney Kessler）。

世界第一阿丽娜轻取对手晋级。（路透社）

萨巴伦卡兴奋地表示：“能回到这片美丽的球场打球，感觉真的非常非常特别。”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J3LKDEcEW8

日本名将大坂直美在首轮以一身和服惊艳亮相并进行热身。（法新社）

日本名将大坂直美则在首轮以一身和服惊艳亮相。在直落两盘击败法国选手埃尔莎·雅克莫（Elsa Jacquemot）前，她身着一套灵感源自日本传统和服、绣有仙鹤与樱花的精致战袍入场，再次引发话题。

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The Supreme Court handed Trump an election case defeat. Is a bigger win for him coming?

2026-06-29T21:04:34.479Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/politics/mail-in-ballots-trump-supreme-court-election

The Supreme Court’s ruling letting more than a dozen states keep their post-election grace periods for mail ballots is a defeat for President Donald Trump and Republicans ahead of the midterms, but the GOP can still capture significant victories in major election-related cases coming further down the pipeline.

On Monday, two Republican-appointees joined the three liberal justices in rejecting GOP claims that federal law did not allow states to count postmarked mail ballots that arrive at election offices after Election Day. The ruling upheld Mississippi’s five-day mail ballot grace period — after the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals had struck it down. It comes after Trump last year tried to unilaterally punish states for counting mail ballots arrived after Election Day.

But in an under-the-radar maneuver, the Supreme Court took up a separate case that could help Trump and Republicans tighten voter rules in the name of preventing noncitizen voting. Next term, the justices will consider reviving parts of an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship for voting. The case — RNC v. Mi Familia Vota — could also give states the green light to conduct mass voter purges of suspected noncitizens in the days and the weeks before an election.

That case won’t likely be settled by the midterms, but stands to be resolved ahead of 2028. It fits into a Trump agenda of pushing for more aggressive action to clamp down on noncitizen voting — which studies have shown to be very rare — even if the tactics risk disenfranchising eligible voters as well.

The mail ballot case decided Monday “favored states’ rights in a way that benefited voters,” said Richard Hasen, an election law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

“Mi Familia favors states’ rights against the interests of voters,” Hasen told CNN.

Both cases come down to interpreting laws passed by Congress, noted Justin Levitt, a Loyola Law School professor who served as a White House adviser on voting during the Biden administration. On Monday, the court said that Congress did not intend to restrict ballot-receipt deadlines for mail ballots when it standardized the federal Election Day in November.

The Arizona case is more complicated, Levitt said, because that law in question — the National Voter Registration Act — is less clear than the federal statutes at the center of the ballot deadline case.

“I don’t think (Monday’s ruling) is a harbinger of what the court is going to do on the NVRA,” he said.

Trump and Republicans’ loss on mail ballot deadlines came after they secured a much bigger win earlier this spring, when the Supreme Court gutted what remained of the Voting Rights Act and made it much harder for minority voters to challenge redistricting plans on the basis of the VRA’s ban on racial discrimination in voting.

The 6-3 decision by the conservative majority — led by an opinion from Justice Samuel Alito — gives states much more freedom to gerrymander their maps to the detriment of voters of color.

The conservative majority said it was bringing courts’ understanding of the Voting Rights Act in line with the Constitution.

The ruling was quickly used by Republicans to eliminate Democratic-held congressional seats authorized under the Voting Rights Act in states across the South. More maps will be redrawn ahead of the 2028 election in a way that shrinks minority representation — not just at the federal level, but also in state and local elected bodies.

The decision was the third major decision to winnow down the VRA in favor of states’ ability to regulate elections as they see fit. The conservative majority had also, in recent years, shut the door for federal courts to police states for partisan gerrymanders and made it harder to bring constitutional challenges to racial gerrymanders.

“There are all these cases where the court seems to want to be out of the business of dealing with election issues,” said Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Monday’s opinion for the cross-ideological majority in mail ballot deadline case — an opinion written by conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett — stressed that it was a “narrow” case that didn’t deal with any constitutional issues.

“The election-day statutes say nothing about ballot receipt and we cannot add to the words Congress chose,” Barrett wrote, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberals. Nothing would stop Congress in the future from overriding those state grace periods.

Four conservatives dissented in an opinion written by Alito that claimed the majority’s ruling, by sanctioning post-election mail ballot deadlines, was increasing the risk of election fraud. Barrett’s opinion countered that it was up to legislatures to make those kinds of policy choices, and Congress’ Election Day statute had not imposed a restriction on mail ballot grace periods.

“Federalism is not a partisan issue,” Muller said. “If you are letting the states do different things, sometimes they’re going to benefit Republicans and sometimes they’re going to benefit Democrats.”

Republicans benefited from another move by the justices Monday, when the Supreme Court refused to take up a ruling that OKed a Texas law that bars — with criminal penalties — compensation for individuals or groups that help voters fill out their mail ballots.

However, the GOP got a punt from the high court in another case, coming out of Pennsylvania. Republicans are appealing a decision that struck down the state’s requirement that voters write the date on their mail ballot envelopes. The justices on Monday asked for more briefing on whether they should take up the case, which would could make it easier for states to defend voter restrictions that are challenged in court as unconstitutional.

Tuesday, the court’s final day for releasing opinions, the justices are set to decide a case brought by Republicans seeking to weaken campaign finance limits.

Since returning to the White House, Trump has been fixated on exerting more federal control over election administration

Trump responded to Monday’s ruling by demanding that Congress pass his prized piece of elections legislation, the SAVE America Act, which has stalled in the Senate. He wants to use that bill to severely restrict mail voting. But the version of the legislation that has passed in the House is focused on voter ID and citizenship verification of voters.

If it was passed, which appears to be a long shot, it would override parts of the National Voter Registration Act.

In the meantime, the Supreme Court’s ultimate ruling on the Arizona law could determine that ability of states to implement their own statutes that would achieve the same goals on voter proof of citizenship.

“Trump may not get his SAVE Act, but we could get mini-SAVE Acts in lots of Republican states by 2028,” Hasen said.

The most consequential question the court will be considering is whether a provision of the NVRA that bars “systematic” voter removal programs within 90 days of an election applies to purges aimed at suspected non-citizens.

Other states, in addition to Arizona, have tried to conduct such mass purges in the days and weeks before an election. Lower courts have blocked those purges because of the NVRA’s so-called quiet period, but the Supreme Court has previously signaled a different view, having issued an emergency order just days before the 2024 election to let Virginia restart a mass purge aimed at noncitizens.

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President Donald Trump on Monday blasted a Supreme Court opinion upholding a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots received up to five days after Election Day to be counted.

The ruling in Watson v. RNC pitted Trump against some of the justices he appointed and dealt a blow to his push for stricter election rules by upholding Mississippi’s practice of counting late-arriving mail-in ballots. The decision also prompted a rebuke from one of the Republican senators Trump singled out in a scathing response, after the senator noted he already supports legislation requiring ballots to be received by Election Day.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump nominee, rebuked Republicans’ arguments in the case, writing that as long as Election Day is the statutorily required date on which a vote is submitted and that “election-day statutes do not set a deadline for ballot receipt.”

Trump fired back hours later on Truth Social, calling the case a “tremendous loss” for voters’ rights and saying the ruling means Congress must moot it immediately by passing the SAVE America Act.

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President Donald Trump addresses reporters at the White House.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The bill, led by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, in the House and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., in the Senate, would require nationwide voter ID and essentially ban no-excuse mail-in balloting.

“It is more important than ever to pass the SAVE America Act,” he said.

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“There is no excuse for a politician, or otherwise, to be against the above three requirements,” he said, citing voter-ID, proof-of-citizenship, and only distributing mail-in ballots to military members, the sick and disabled and those voters traveling away from their home precinct on Election Day.

“There is only one reason to oppose — cheating,” he said, adding that the House approved the SAVE Act in three different iterations.

“In a time when there is a powerful Communist movement taking place in our country, one more dangerous than World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or Sept. 11, all Dumocrats (sic) and our five Republican Senate Hold Outs, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, Bill Cassidy, and Mitch McConnell must vote to save our country.”

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People with signs supporting the SAVE act at Upper Senate Park.(Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached out to Senate leaders John Thune, R-S.D., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., as well as each of the senators Trump mentioned.

Cassidy incredulously replied that the president may need to fact-check his missive, as the Louisiana Republican is a co-sponsor of the SAVE Act.

“I don’t know which staffer misled you, but thank you for your attention to this matter,” Cassidy said, mimicking Trump’s signature statement-closer.

Trump and Cassidy have sparred in other respects, but the two appear in agreement on the bill’s contents. However, Cassidy added that it is “irresponsible” to postpone a now-paused Housing bill signing until the SAVE Act is passed because people deserve “relief… for the high cost of housing.”

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Thune’s office declined further comment, while McConnell’s acknowledged receipt and said the former majority leader would share any comment if he has one in the interim.

While Trump grouped all Democrats in opposition, one maverick member of the minority has signaled he would support a pared-down version that would require voter ID.

“If the GOP wants real reform over a show vote––put out a clean, standalone bill and I’m AYE,” Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman said in a recent statement.

“Keep it basic: PHOTO ID to vote. Stop turning this into a Christmas list and attacking vote-by-mail.”

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If the Senate were to approve the House-passed version of the SAVE Act, it could upend or at least moot parts of the Supreme Court’s Watson decision.

Calls for the SAVE America Act’s passage mounted in the weeks before the decision as critics pointed to California’s ballot tabulation process after actor Spencer Pratt was overtaken by socialist Councilwoman Nithya Raman, D-Los Feliz, and eliminated from the runoff. Critics also cited the slow pace at which Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton were declared general election candidates for governor after a crowded primary.

Born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, worked in both the New York and Washington bureaus for Fox News since 2013.

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