Comment on Supreme Court election crucial to redistricting, leaders say

“Elon Musk must attend an emergency court hearing in Philadelphia on Thursday to address a bid by the city’s top prosecutor to stop the Tesla CEO and his political action committee from continuing to award $1 million prizes to registered voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania,” CNBC reports.

“In the days leading up to the election, mysterious monuments continue to pop up in cities across the US, poking fun at candidate Donald Trump and his supporters,” The Guardian reports.

“Vice President Kamala Harris’s strategists may have thought they were avoiding problems by keeping President Biden holed up in the White House. But now they may need to take away his Zoom password, too,” the New York Times reports. “In the final days of a coin-toss election, where any small shift theoretically could be decisive, Mr.

Donald Trump sat in a Trump-branded garbage truck in Green Bay, Wisconsin, from which he criticized Joe Biden over his “garbage” comments, CNN reports. Said Trump: “I have to begin by saying, 250 million Americans are not garbage.” Daily Express: Trump misses truck door handle twice and nearly falls over in worrying sign of decline.

“Speaker Mike Johnson’s suggestion that Republicans would implement ‘massive reform’ to the Affordable Care Act — known as Obamacare — is causing a bit of a headache for the Trump campaign,” ABC News reports. “Donald Trump’s campaign quickly tried to separate itself from the speaker’s comments. A spokeswoman told the New York Times that they were ‘not President Trump’s policy position.’”

On Wednesday, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s decision to remove nearly 2,000 registered voters from the state’s rolls, after two lower federal courts deemed the purge illegal. At least 1,600 voters will now have to fight to get reinstated—with less than a week to Election Day. “It was a lawless decision in which the Supreme Court did not explain its decision or rationale,” said Anna Dorman, counsel with voting rights advocacy group Protect Democracy. Two months ago, Youngkin filed an executive order to purge Virginia’s voter rolls, ostensibly in a quest to prevent “noncitizens” from casting ballots.