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Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship to vote supported by 24 state AGs in emergency stay with SCOTUS

Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship to vote supported by 24 state AGs in emergency stay with SCOTUS

Nearly half the state attorneys general in the U.S. have filed amicus briefs with the Supreme Court to back an emergency stay that will allow the State of Arizona to require U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections. The Republican Party of Arizona said on Thursday that it had filed the emergency application pending appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit “in support of HB 2492, our law requiring proof of citizenship to vote in presidential elections.” The Arizona law requires proof of citizenship for ballots even if they are filed by mail. “The Constitution gives states the power to set voter qualifications, and AZ is leading the charge to ensure ONLY CITIZENS vote in our elections,” the Arizona GOP tweeted. “This case has the potential to prevent non-citizen voting once and for all, which should have been the case all along.” ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ON VOTER ROLLS SPURS WATCHDOG GROUP TO SUE MARICOPA COUNTY The brief was backed by attorneys general from 24 other states, including Texas, Florida, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and Virginia, along with the two states that filed the brief — Kansas and West Virginia. The Dhillon Law Group filed the brief, stating the Constitution does not support the district court’s ruling, and that it’s legal for a state to require proof of citizenship to vote in elections. FOX NEWS POLL: NEW MATCHUP, SAME RESULT — TRUMP BESTS HARRIS BY ONE POINT “The Court should therefore immediately stay the District Court’s injunction to the extent it interferes with Arizona’s constitutional power to choose how it appoints its presidential electors,” Harmeet Dhillon, lead attorney for the law group wrote. The non-partisan group Honest Elections Project said that states “are well within their rights to require people to show proof of citizenship in order to vote by mail.” The group stated on its website that “We believe the Supreme Court should allow Arizona’s law to go into effect and allow states to secure their own elections.” An emergency application for stay by the Republican National Committee argues that voter integrity is a “problem” that’s gone unchecked, particularly with so many “illegal aliens” in the country.  “There is every reason to believe this problem of non-citizen voting has gotten worse, as the number of aliens in the United States has undeniably grown. One study suggests there were over 11 million illegal aliens in the country in 2019.” “Each of those aliens represents another possible opening for voter fraud, for each represents a probability — no matter how small — that they will vote illegally. Add to that the other possible sources of noncitizen voting — such as aliens here legally but who cannot vote or who have overstayed their visas — and the magnitude of the problem becomes clear.”

Critics blast Harris’ grasp of inflation, attack on business ahead of policy speech: ‘Lunatic behavior’

Critics blast Harris’ grasp of inflation, attack on business ahead of policy speech: ‘Lunatic behavior’

Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to roll out her economic plan Friday during a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina. Early indications are it will have a progressive populist thrust, including attacks on corporate “price gouging,” which conservative critics say is a smokescreen to deflect from the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of inflation. Michael Tyler, the Harris-Walz campaign communications director, said on CNN’s “Newsroom” Wednesday that Americans “can expect her to talk about the ways in which she wants to move this economy forward and lower costs for middle-class families,” noting Harris “understands that for too many families, prices remain too high.” Additionally, this week, the campaign insisted tackling inflation will be a “day one” priority. However, conservatives are criticizing Harris for her “day one” claim about going after inflation, insisting she has had four years to do something about it. HARRIS DOES ABOUT-FACE ON SEVERAL FAR-LEFT POLICIES, DISTANCES HERSELF FROM BIDEN “Day one in office was 3½ years ago. What have you been doing in the meantime to tackle inflation?” E.J. Antoni said. “You’ve been creating it.”  Similar remarks were echoed by former President Trump Wednesday during his own stop in North Carolina.  “I gave Harris and Biden an economic miracle, and they quickly turned it into an economic nightmare,” the former president said.    In advance of Harris’ first formal policy speech of her presidential campaign Friday, her team announced Harris plans to call for first-of-its-kind federal controls on food and grocery “price gouging” by corporations. The proposal would give authority to the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to impose harsh penalties on companies for setting excessively high prices. “There’s a big difference between fair pricing in competitive markets and excessive prices unrelated to the costs of doing business,” the Harris campaign said shortly after announcing the policy proposal. Republican economists have criticized the move, calling it “Marxist” and “lunatic behavior.”  They also challenged the merits of Harris’ claim that food and grocery providers are artificially inflating prices.  “Actual consumer prices have been going up less than producer prices, which means that businesses, if anything, are price gouging themselves,” said Richard Stern, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget.  “If the prices are going up more than the cost of doing business, then [the consumer price index] would be going up faster than [the producer price index], and it’s not.”  Antoni, also of the Heritage Foundation, noted that, in the past, when politicians have tried to impose price and wage controls, it has “always ended with the same disastrous effect, which is shortages.” “We had gas lines in the 1970s, and now she’s talking not about regulating the price of fuel, but regulating the price of food. So, instead of gas lines, we’re going to have bread lines. This is absolutely insane, but I guess we shouldn’t be surprised because, let’s face it, [Harris] is a Marxist, and her policies are going to introduce the exact same effects here that Marxist policies have had elsewhere.” “Price control of groceries is a Soviet Union approach to inflation,” said Paul Teller, executive director at Advancing American Freedom, a nonprofit founded by former Vice President Mike Pence. “Price controls are wrong and never work, not on groceries and not on drug prices. They are anti-innovation and anti-free market.” BIDEN INSTRUCTS MEDIA TO ‘START WRITING’ THAT HIS INFLATION POLICIES ARE ‘WORKING’ Meanwhile, other critics of Harris’ “price-gouging” proposal have questioned why she has not rolled out this proposed measure sooner. Democrats have control of the White House and, theoretically, the Senate, where Harris is the tie-breaking vote for legislation split along party lines. Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for comment on the new “price-gouging” proposal, which is expected to be formally introduced Friday when Harris visits North Carolina, and was directed to a thread on social media that included news articles and research insisting a lack of competition and other factors in the grocery sector are giving corporations an unfair advantage over consumers.    Another economic policy the Harris campaign has adopted in recent weeks is former President Trump’s no-tax-on-tips policy, which, Tyler said, was just one part of Harris’ plan, because the vice president “also understands what Donald Trump doesn’t understand, that that’s not enough.” CLOSE CONTEST BETWEEN TRUMP AND HARRIS IN THIS BATTLEGROUND STATE TURNED RED: POLL  “That’s why we have to increase the federal minimum wage,” Tyler said, highlighting Harris’ second known economic proposal so far.  During her failed 2019 presidential campaign, Harris’ economic policies included a $3 trillion tax plan aimed at increasing taxes on the wealthy. Just like her current campaign, she wanted to raise the federal minimum wage, direct billions of dollars in tax credits to low-income renters, create a Bernie Sanders-style Medicare for all health care system and lower cash bail for criminals. Everyday Americans are feeling the effects of inflation when they reach into their wallets. The Labor Department on Wednesday said the consumer price index (CPI), a broad measure of how much everyday goods like gasoline, groceries and rent cost, rose 0.2% in July from the previous month, in line with expectations. GOOGLE EXECS PRESSED TO TESTIFY AFTER ADMITTING TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT SEARCH OMISSIONS WERE BY DESIGN Prices climbed 2.9% from the same time last year. It marked the lowest level of inflation since March 2021. Housing costs were once again the main driver of inflation last month. Rent costs rose 0.3% for the month and are up 5.1% from the same time last year. Rising rents are concerning because higher housing costs most directly and acutely affect household budgets. The cost of food climbed 0.2% last month and is up 2.2% from the same time last year. The food-away-from-home index rose by 0.2%, while the cost of groceries inched 0.1% higher. FIVE CONTROVERSIES SURROUNDING VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE TIM WALZ, FROM DUI TO COVID FRAUD Despite these increases, Harris-Walz spokesperson Joseph Costello wrote in a campaign email Wednesday, “Inflation is at

Minnesota business owners sound alarm on Harris’ ‘nightmare’ VP pick : ‘Really bad for the US’

Minnesota business owners sound alarm on Harris’ ‘nightmare’ VP pick : ‘Really bad for the US’

MOUNTAIN LAKE, Minn., – Rural Minnesotans say Gov. Tim Walz is “against small businesses,” warning what a vice presidency under his leadership would look like after their experience in the state. Several Minnesota business owners in Mountain Lake, Minn., who all recalled it being a “nightmare” working under Walz’s leadership, spoke with Fox News Digital about their experience. “Our business has totally been affected by Walz. Since Walz has been in, it’s kind of been a nightmare,” Cheryl, who runs a local business, told Fox News Digital. “It just appears that he’s really against small businesses.” Cheryl referenced the earned sick and safe time law passed by Walz in 2023 that allows employees to earn a maximum of 48 hours each year of paid time off for a variety of reasons, saying it has “made it really challenging to have a business here” and is “also very costly.” WALZ IS ‘TERRIBLE IN A CRISIS,’ SAYS FORMER REPUBLICAN MINNESOTA SENATE LEADER Betty, who owns a local restaurant, mirrored the frustration about the newly enacted paid time off law. “I appreciate my employees and I love my employees. And so I don’t want to take it away from them. But what I’m saying is it’s my right, it’s my small business, and I should be able to come up with my plan and reward them instead for when they’re showing up for work and when they’re working,” she told Fox. “And so I just feel like he’s created a policy for my business when it’s not workable for me.” TIM WALZ HAS TIES TO MUSLIM CLERIC WITH ANTISEMITIC VIEWS, GAVE STATE FUNDING TO HIS GROUP: REPORT Tim, an organic farmer who said he previously voted for Walz, will no longer be backing him, citing the governor’s change of tune on policy over the years. “I wouldn’t mind sitting down and having a beer with Tim Walz, but I wouldn’t ever vote for him today,” he told Fox. “I just think he’s changed a lot. And I don’t like the direction that it’s going on a lot of policies. I’m not saying he’s a bad person. He’s probably a good person. But it doesn’t mean I agree with his policies.” A residential building contractor, Joe, recalled watching those around him being negatively impacted by the state’s COVID-era policies.  “The biggest thing was the shutdowns. The construction trade was seen as an essential business, so I guess I wasn’t shut down, but because it really affected my work, because people I know weren’t able to afford to hire me to do stuff.” Asked about what they think a Harris-Walz presidency would look like given their experience running a business under the Democratic governor’s leadership, the residents all suggested that it would “be really bad for the U.S.” “How can we have somebody who is going to lie about literally anything, whether it’s his military service or how he handles the riots, closing down small businesses and allowing big box stores to stay open,” Joe said. “How can you have that in the White House?” “His policies are going to be the same. So if you take those policies and apply them,” Cheryl told Fox. “As a nation it would not be good. You just can’t look at where we stand as a state, and it’s like wow, how can you bring something down that fast.”

‘Rent is too damn high’: Rosen panned for Biden-aligned votes, high housing costs

‘Rent is too damn high’: Rosen panned for Biden-aligned votes, high housing costs

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., is being targeted for her support of large spending bills signed into law by President Biden that have been followed by rising prices and so-called “nightmare inflation.” “The American Dream once lived in Nevada,” according to a new ad from Win it Back PAC, which is aligned with top conservative group Club for Growth. “But thanks to Jacky Rosen, we’re waking up to a nightmare where homes are for high rollers and the rent is too damn high because Rosen’s big spending drove housing costs through the roof.” The new TV ad is a part of the PAC’s $4 million purchase in the battleground state, running through the November election. DHS, FBI PROBED FOR INFO ON ALLEGED IRANIAN AGENT’S ASSASSINATION PLOT POSSIBLY TARGETING TRUMP It specifically pointed to Rosen’s vote in favor of Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP), which was billed as an investment in the economy to help ease the financial burden of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Following the ARP’s enactment, prices and inflation both continued to rise, which Win it Back cited. It further highlighted the continually rising prices of rent and homes in Nevada, years after ARP was signed.  “As you lie awake worried about the bills, illegals rest easy with your tax dollars under the mattress,” the video continues. “Break our laws. Live our dream. That’s Rosen’s record.” ‘PREGNANT PERSONS’: OHIO SEN SHERROD BROWN SCRUBBED ‘WOMEN’ FROM BILL ON PREGNANCY Multiple outlets have fact-checked whether illegal immigrants were likely to receive COVID-19 stimulus checks, and they determined that those who have overstayed visas were capable of receiving money and probably did.  Rosen campaign spokesperson Johanna Warshaw told Fox News Digital in a statement, “Jacky Rosen is working to address the housing crisis and lower costs so that hardworking Nevadans can afford to pay rent or buy a home and build a good life.” “She’s taking on price gouging in the housing market by out-of-state corporate investors, calling for lower interest rates to bring down mortgage and rent costs, and working directly with Nevada communities to free up public lands so that we can build more housing that regular people can afford,” she added. ‘PATH TO JUSTICE’: DURBIN URGES AUSTIN TO RETHINK REVOKING 9/11 MASTERMINDS’ PLEA DEALS The Democrat senator is competing for re-election in November, facing off against the Republican Senate candidate and retired Army Capt. Sam Brown, who has been endorsed by former President Trump.  The race is understood to be one of the most competitive in the country. However, Rosen received some welcome news on Thursday when the top nonpartisan political handicapper, Cook Political Report, shifted the race’s rating from a “Toss Up” to “Lean Democratic.” In a June Fox News Poll, Nevadans reported feeling badly about their financial situations, with nearly half saying so at 49%. Just 13% felt like they were getting ahead. Fewer than 4 in 10 said they were holding steady financially. KAMALA HARRIS LED DEMS IN 2018 CALL TO REJECT MORE FUNDING FOR BORDER PATROL, ICE Registered voters nationally reinforced that the economy would be the top electoral issue in November in a new Fox News Poll released on Wednesday. Thirty-eight percent said the economy is the most important issue as it pertains to their vote in the upcoming presidential election. Just 28% of respondents rated economic conditions positively, which is an improvement from 19% in August 2022. The figure is only one point off of the number at the start of Biden’s term, when 29% believed the economy was doing well.  Nationally, 43% rated their financial situation as being positive. This marked the highest percent to say so in more than two years. However, it’s still 10 points down from 53% who said their financial situation was good during Biden’s first year.  A majority, 73%, still maintain that the national economy is doing poorly, as well as their personal financial situation, with 57% reporting as much. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.