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Trump preps for massive campaign rally Sunday at New York City’s Madison Square Garden

Trump preps for massive campaign rally Sunday at New York City’s Madison Square Garden

Former President Donald Trump will hold a massive campaign rally in New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday, – just nine days before voters cast their ballots.  The event, which was first-come, first-serve, sold out within hours of being announced.  The 19,500-seat venue is home of the New York Knicks and New York Rangers.  The Trump campaign says the program includes political icons, celebrities, musical artists, and friends and family of former President Trump who will all discuss how he is “the best choice to fix everything that Kamala Harris broke.” ELON MUSK, DANA WHITE TO APPEAR AT ‘HISTORIC’ TRUMP MSG RALLY “This epic event, in the heart of President Trump’s home city, will be a showcase of the historic political movement that President Trump has built in the final days of the campaign,” the campaign said in a press release.  Elon Musk and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White will attend the rally Sunday.  Musk has already hit the campaign trail for Trump, delivering a memorable speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, earlier this month, when the former president returned to the same site where an assassination attempt was made on his life on July 13.  White, who has been a close friend of Trump for years and played a role in him reestablishing the mixed martial arts company in the early 2000s, introduced the former president at this year’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, telling the crowd the stakes have never been higher. Other notable attendees this Sunday include former Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, political commentator Tucker Carlson and former Democrat presidential nominee turned Republican Tulsi Gabbard.  High-profile names from the political world include Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla. TRUMP TO HOLD RALLY AT NEW YORK’S MADISON SQUARE GARDEN AHEAD OF ELECTION DAY Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump as well as the former president’s sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. will also feature. From the music world, Death Row Records founder Michael Harris Jr. is set to appear, as will singer Lee Greenwood and opera singer Christopher Macchio. The Garden hosted the Republican National Convention (RNC) in 2004 and the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in 1924, 1976, 1980 and 1992.  Then-President Ronald Reagan, in his 1984 re-election landslide, was the last Republican to carry New York in a White House race. “We’re making a play for New Jersey. We’re making a play for Virginia,” Trump said at a rally earlier this month, before adding that he’s also aiming to compete in Minnesota and New Mexico. Earlier this year, during a campaign stop at an Upper Manhattan bodega, Trump said he would “straighten out New York.”  “We’re going to come in — number one, you have to stop crime, and we’re going to let the police do their job. They have to be given back their authority. They have to be able to do their job,” Trump said. “And we’re going to come into New York. We’re making a big play for New York, other cities, too. But this city, I love this city.”  This will be Trump’s second big rally in the state of New York.  Trump held a rally at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island, last month. More than 60,000 tickets were requested, far exceeding the venue’s 16,000-seat capacity. Thousands of supporters who were not admitted to the venue watched him speak on large screens outside.  TRUMP ADVISER UNPACKS WHY FORMER PRESIDENT IS HOLDING RALLY IN DEEP-BLUE STATE WEEKS FROM ELECTION Trump also held a rally in the Bronx over the summer at Crotona Park, which had a permit allowance of 3,500 people. The New York Post reported the Bronx rally drew up to 10,000 supporters.  Meanwhile, more than 20,000 people attended his second rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, over the weekend.  The campaign also said they saw more than 100,000 people at the former president’s rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, in May.  Trump previously said New York has “gotten so bad in the last three years, four years.”  “And we’re going to straighten New York out. So running for president, we’re putting a big hit in New York — we could win New York,” Trump said. While it is unlikely deep blue New York flips red in the White House race, another rally in the state may help Republicans down the ballot as they try to hold on to their House of Representatives majority in November’s elections. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

Experts predict Supreme Court likely to stay out of 2024 presidential election

Experts predict Supreme Court likely to stay out of 2024 presidential election

Election lawyers and experts say it is unlikely the U.S. Supreme Court will take up an election-related case after Nov. 5, let alone cast the deciding vote. “It’s got to be super, super close,” Jason Torchinsky, partner at Holtzman Vogel, told Fox News Digital. “If you look at the history of post-election litigation, the only places where it has been successfully outcome-determinative really are in places where the vote is just super close.” “If there’s a real issue, the Court will take it. If it’s something that the Court doesn’t think merits a higher-level view, then they’ll summarily affirm,” Torchinsky said.  Congress amended the Electoral Count Reform Act in 2022 (ECRA) which expedites potential litigation and specifying that the vice president’s role during the joint session is “ministerial in nature.”  ‘IDEOLOGICAL BALANCE’: SUPREME COURT’S CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY TO STAY NO MATTER WHO WINS ELECTION, EXPERTS SAY The statute says “any action brought by an aggrieved candidate for President or Vice President” will be heard by a district court with a three-judge panel. It is then “the duty of the court to advance on the docket and to expedite to the greatest possible extent the disposition of the action.”  HARRIS ENTERTAINS SUPREME COURT-PACKING QUESTION DURING TOWN HALL, SUPPORTS ‘SOME KIND OF REFORM’ Parties are then allowed to directly request review of the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on an expedited basis.  “It does kind of create a new route into the federal court for a specific limited set of issues being raised under the Electoral Count Act,” said Greg Teufle, founder of OGC Law. “There are very limited issues that can be raised under that Act, though. So it’s not a broad expansion or increase in the likelihood of litigation, either in federal courts or litigation that reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, under the Electoral Reform Act.” Teufle noted that for an election case to be taken up by the Court, “there would have to be significant and provable fraud allegations or other serious violations of the law in the manner that elections are conducted or votes are processed.” Republicans and Democrats alike have initiated a flurry of election-related lawsuits ahead of Nov. 5, including a recent Georgia case finding that county election officials must certify results by the legal deadline despite suspecting fraud or mistakes.  Joseph Burns, partner at Holtzman Vogel, did note that Republicans may prove successful in election litigation based on the makeup of the Court.  “In terms of the makeup of the court, there’s no question you’ve got six appointees of Republican judges at this point,” Burns said. “And these are generally people who, I think, are going to interpret what needs to be interpreted, whether it’s a state statute or a federal statute. Their general philosophy is to adhere as closely as possible to the words of the statute.” “You have a more conservative-minded Supreme Court in that respect,” Burns continued. “And you certainly have Republicans generally making those types of arguments about courts interpreting statutes or state constitutions, for instance, in a stricter manner. So I think in that respect, given the arguments that each side generally makes, Republicans would be in better shape.” ANONYMOUS GOP SENATOR CONCERNED ABOUT GRASSLEY, 91, RECLAIMING KEY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIR: REPORT John Hardin Young, counsel at Sandler Reiff, however, told Fox News Digital he believes it is highly unlikely that the Supreme Court could decide the 2024 election, especially noting the conservative majority.  “I think that there’s now a sensitivity among the nine justices not to get involved unless it were absolutely necessary,” Young said. “There is, I think, somewhat of a bias in the majority on the Supreme Court to get involved if they believe that process is being corrupted or people who aren’t following the rules because the majority is, I think, very sensitive to democracy depending on people following the rules.” “There are just so many unknowns that we have to see how things play out,” said Jeff Weiss, professor at New York Law School.  Although the ECRA attempted to clarify and revise the casting and counting of electoral votes, Teufle said the law as a whole could become the target of litigation after Nov. 5.  “The entirety of the act may come under challenge if it’s utilized in a way that impacts the outcome of the election in a way that people view as improper, unfair or unlawful,” Teufle said. “Either side disappointed with how the electoral count goes could raise constitutional questions about the laws used and the process used to count the votes.”