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  • House Passes Defense Authorization

    The House Rules Committee on Monday advanced the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a must-pass defense bill, sending it to the floor for consideration. (Correspondent Bernie Bennett reports.)

    VERBATIM:

    The committee reported out a rule along party lines by a vote of 8-4 that would merge the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to the NDAA in a special process known as MIRVing.

    Several conservative hardliners previously said they would oppose a procedural rule that would tee up a debate and final vote on legislation until action is taken on the SAVE America Act – and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced the plan as a way to appease the holdouts.

    But the real test will be whether conservatives will support the procedural rule today. Florida Republican Anna Paulina Luna, a vocal advocate of the SAVE America Act, says the Senate could strip out the voting rights measure from the NDAA.

    Bernie Bennett, Washintgon.


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  • Supreme Court Rules on Birthright Citizenship

    The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

    TAG: That’s correspondent Bernie Bennett.

    VERBATIM: The justices in their decision in a New Hampshire case Tuesday relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, and more recent federal laws in ruling anyone born in the country is a citizen, with limited exceptions.

    The Republican president’s restrictions had been blocked by several lower courts and had not taken effect.

    Three conservative justices would have allowed the restrictions to take effect.


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  • Supreme Court Rules on Transgender Rights in Sports

    The Supreme Court upholds state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams. Bernie Bennett has more.

    VERBATIM:

    The court’s conservative majority has repeatedly ruled against transgender Americans in the past year.

    It rules Tuesday that state bans in Idaho and West Virginia don’t violate the Constitution or the federal law known as Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education.

    More than two dozen other Republican-led states have adopted bans on female transgender athletes.

    Left unresolved by the outcome are lawsuits challenging state laws and regulations in Connecticut, California and elsewhere that permit transgender athletes to compete consistent with their gender identity.

    Bernie Bennett, Washington.


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