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House leaders aim for vote on Trump-backed elections bill next month

House leaders aim for vote on Trump-backed elections bill next month

FIRST ON FOX: House GOP leaders plan to take up a bill enhancing protections against noncitizens voting sometime in July, Fox News Digital has learned. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is circulating a memo within his House GOP conference, obtained by Fox News Digital, arguing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act is necessary. After this Friday, Congress is on a week-long recess for Independence Day, returning July 8. He unveiled the bill, originally pushed by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, alongside former President Trump in a high-profile press conference at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year. The 22-page report argues there is “irrefutable evidence” that noncitizens have voted illegally in U.S. elections, placing blame with the 1993 National Voter Registration Act. BIDEN DEBATE PREP FOCUSED ON WAYS TO ‘TRIGGER’ TRUMP AS FORMER PRESIDENT RELIES ON CAMPAIGNING: REPORTS “The NVRA does not require states to ask for proof of citizenship when registering an individual to vote in federal elections. Rather, the NVRA relies on individuals to merely attest they are a citizen and eligible to vote. In 44 states, if an individual completes and signs the universal NVRA form (Form), then the state is required by federal law to register that person to vote,” the memo reads. Johnson’s document also argues that the Biden administration’s border policies have exacerbated the issue by making it possible for more people to illegally enter the U.S. “The Biden Administration’s efforts to dismantle border security, and related policies, have enabled millions of aliens to enter the country, violate our immigration laws, and exploit a system to obtain [a social security number],” it reads. It also points to reports that states like Massachussetts, Virginia and Ohio recently purged noncitizens from their voter rolls.  FAITH VOTERS WILL ‘DECIDE THIS ELECTION,’ ACCORDING TO PROMINENT GOP MEMBERS According to the memo, Virginia removed nearly 1,500 people from its voter rolls since May 2023 due to “non-citizen status.” Citing an Electoral Process Education Corp. report, the memo said 335 of those people have cast ballots in Virginia elections in the last four years.  “Earlier this year, in Massachusetts, Boston Election Department officials disclosed to the Public Interest Legal Foundation that the city had removed 70 non-citizens from the city’s election rolls,” the document says. Additionally, Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State recently ordered over 130 people to be removed from the state’s voter list, the memo says, adding, “Ohio law imposes a very high bar before a county board of elections can remove someone from the rolls due to noncitizenship.” Democratic critics of the SAVE Act have argued that it is unnecessary because it is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections.  The timing of the vote happening next month would be significant, coming less than six months before Trump’s White House rematch with President Biden. HOW TO WATCH THE CNN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE SIMULCAST ON THE FOX NEWS CHANNEL Even if passed, however, it is highly unlikely to be taken up by the Democrat-controlled Senate. Johnson said at Trump’s Palm Beach home in April, “I’m going to announce to you today here standing alongside President Trump that we will do everything within our to ensure that we do have free and fair elections in this country.  “It’s the basis of who we are as a nation, and we owe that to the American people. And so what we’re going to do is introduce legislation to require that every single person who registers to vote in a federal election must prove that they’re an American citizen,” the speaker said. “Our bill will establish new safeguards, will put us on par, by the way, with virtually every other democracy around the world that also prohibits noncitizen voting. And this is a critical thing for us to do at a very critical time. Our bill also will require states to remove noncitizens from their existing voter rolls.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Supreme Court rules to allow emergency exceptions to Idaho’s abortion ban

Supreme Court rules to allow emergency exceptions to Idaho’s abortion ban

The Supreme Court Thursday ruled that doctors in Idaho must – at least for now – be allowed to provide emergency abortions despite the state’s near-total ban, in order to comport with the federal law that requires emergency rooms to give “stabilizing treatments” to patients in critical condition.  In an unsigned opinion, the Court held that writs of certiorari in two cases involving the law were “improvidently granted,” and vacated stays the Court granted earlier this year.  The consolidated cases, Moyle v. U.S. and Idaho v. U.S., had national attention following the high court’s 2022 ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.  In a concurring opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanagh, agreed with the highly unusual move by the Court. “because the shape of these cases has substantially shifted” since the Court granted certiorari.  But Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, called the Court’s decision “baffling.”  SCOTUS TO HEAR ARGUMENTS IN BIDEN’S LAWSUIT ‘SUBVERTING STATES’ RIGHTS’ ON ABORTION “Recognizing the flaws in the Government’s theory and Idaho’s ‘strong’ likelihood of success, this Court stayed the preliminary injunction pending appeal on January 5. And, wisely or not, the Court also took the unusual step of granting certiorari before Idaho’s appeal was heard by the Ninth Circuit. Now the Court dismisses the writ and, what is worse, vacates the stay,” Alito wrote.  “This about-face is baffling,” he continued. “Nothing legally relevant has occurred since January 5. And the underlying issue in this case—whether EMTALA requires hospitals to perform abortions in some circumstances—is a straightforward question of statutory interpretation. It is squarely presented by the decision below, and it has been exhaustively briefed and argued.” “Altogether, we have more than 1,300 pages of briefing to assist us, and we heard nearly two hours of argument,” he added. “Everything there is to say about the statutory interpretation question has probably been said many times over. That question is as ripe for decision as it ever will be. Apparently, the Court has simply lost the will to decide the easy but emotional and highly politicized question that the case presents. That is regrettable,” he said.  SUPREME COURT RULES IN ABORTION MEDICATION CASE, FINDS GROUP LACKED STANDING TO CHALLENGE FDA APPROVAL Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote separately, concurring with the Court’s decision to lift the stay, but dissenting with its decision to dismiss the cases as improvidently granted.  “This months-long catastrophe was completely unnecessary. More to the point, it directly violated federal law, which in our system of government is supreme,” Jackson wrote. KEY STUDY IN FDA ABORTION PILL CASE AT THE SUPREME COURT WAS RETRACTED IN ‘PARTISAN ASSAULT’ AUTHORS SAY Idaho’s newly enacted Defense of Life Act makes it a crime for any medical provider to perform an abortion with exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother.   The Justice Department argued that the state’s law does not go far enough to allow abortions in more medical emergency circumstances. The DOJ sued the state, saying that the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) requires health care providers to give “stabilizing treatment” – including abortions – for patients when needed to treat an emergency medical condition, even if doing so might conflict with a state’s abortion restrictions. The state had argued that “construing EMTALA as a federal abortion mandate raises grave questions under the major questions doctrine that affect both Congress and this Court.” Proponents of the state’s abortion restriction accused the Biden administration of “subverting states’ rights,” citing the Dobb’s decision which allowed states to regulate abortion access.

Ad Wars: Trump and Biden campaigns take to airwaves and online ahead of and during presidential debate

Ad Wars: Trump and Biden campaigns take to airwaves and online ahead of and during presidential debate

While President Biden and former President Trump meet on stage at the CNN Presidential Debate, their first face-to-face showdown in their 2024 election rematch, their campaigns will be engaged in combat online and on TV in the ad wars all day Thursday. The Biden campaign announced Thursday morning what they said would be a seven-figure “media blitz” launched ahead of the CNN Presidential Debate. They said it includes ads on the websites of Buzzfeed, USA Today, CNN, El Tiempo Latino, Telemundo, theGrio and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where they’ll spotlight what they argue are “the dangers of electing Trump to a second term.”  The campaign also took out full-page ads in the hard copy editions of USA Today.  THURSDAY’S DEBATE MAY CHANGE THE 2024 ELECTION NARRATIVE ‘IN A MASSIVE WAY’ “Today’s show of force in Atlanta and across the battlegrounds emphasizes the two contrasting visions the American people will see on the debate stage tonight: between President Biden fighting for the American people, and Donald Trump whose campaign is focused on benefiting one person only: himself,” Biden campaign senior spokesperson Kevin Munoz argued in a statement. WHICH DONALD TRUMP WILL SHOW UP AT THURSDAY’S FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE The Biden campaign, which has been dominating the TV ad wars since Trump went dark on air after clinching the Republican presidential nomination in mid-March, has been launching new ads each day this week in the lead up to the debate. The latest spot, shared first with Fox News, features Genesee County, Michigan Sheriff Chris Swanson discussing how he watched in horror as Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and attacked Capitol police officers on Jan. 6, 2021. AdImpact, a leading national ad tracking firm, reported that the Biden campaign reserved $2 million in ad reservations for Thursday alone. The Trump campaign announced on Thursday morning that they would launch two ads for debate day, their first two spots since the end of the GOP primaries over three months ago. WHICH DONALD TRUMP WILL SHOW UP AT THURSDAY’S FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE A commercial titled “Promises” slams what it charges is “Biden’s disastrous record that has destroyed the booming Trump economy, [importing] over 11 million unvetted illegals from all over the world into our country.” And an ad titled “Who is laughing Now” takes aim at the 81-year-old president’s physical abilities, as it argues that “Biden can’t ride a bicycle, climb a flight of stairs, or find his way off a stage.” The spot suggests that the president wouldn’t last another four years in the White House and that “waiting in the wings” is who they derogatorily call “Cackling Kamala Harris.” The Trump campaign wouldn’t say how much money they’re putting behind the one-day ad buy. But AdImpact said it was tracking only $100 thousand in reservations from the Trump team. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

Biden welcomes Bernie Sanders rallies boosting workers in swing state as Trump courts working class

Biden welcomes Bernie Sanders rallies boosting workers in swing state as Trump courts working class

President Biden’s campaign is welcoming a series of events being held by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in key swing state Wisconsin to rally workers ahead of the 2024 election, in which former President Trump is making his own appeal to the group.  Sanders is holding a total of six “Building Working Class Power” events throughout Wisconsin from Wednesday to Saturday, in places such as Mount Pleasant, Sheboygan, Kaukauna, Stevens Point, Eau Claire and La Crosse.  “We’re excited to have Senator Bernie Sanders in Wisconsin to campaign for the one candidate in this race who is fighting for the working people: Joe Biden,” said Biden campaign Wisconsin press secretary Timothy White in a statement to Fox News Digital.  “While President Biden is holding Big Pharma accountable, bringing down prescription drug costs, and building an economy that works for everyone – Trump is only focused on giving tax handouts to his billionaire friends and big corporations.” GOP SENATORS INVOKE STATUTE TO FORCE HHS ANSWERS ON COVID ORIGINS: ‘FULL-FLEDGED COVER-UP’ According to a press release, the independent senator’s rallies are aimed at “Building Working Class Power.” The Biden campaign noted that the rallies are not affiliated with the president’s re-election bid.  “Bernie Sanders might be an independent, but everyone recognizes that this election is about more than party affiliation,” Democratic strategist Max Burns said. “It’s going to be on all of us to ensure Donald Trump never sets foot in the White House again, and Bernie’s big rallies are a great sign of unity between progressives and centrists.” TRUMP LEADS BIDEN IN STATE THAT LAST VOTED FOR A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN 2004 “Bernie has always had a huge following in Wisconsin, and it’s good to see him locking arms with Biden to ensure those voters come out for democracy in November,” he added.  Sanders notably defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary in Wisconsin, besting her by double digits. However, Clinton went on to become the nominee before facing off against Trump.  “This is an all-hands-on-deck moment and Senator Sanders is a strong voice for working people,” explained senior adviser to former President Obama, Eric Schultz. “Nobody has more at stake in November than hardworking Americans and Senator Sanders is uniquely positioned to make the case that we need leadership in Washington that has the backs of working people.” WHICH DONALD TRUMP WILL SHOW UP AT THURSDAY NIGHT’S CNN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE? Democratic strategist Brad Bannon similarly noted Sanders’ commitment to preventing Trump from being president again and having the opportunity to push back with issues the senator has prioritized, saying, “Whatever hope there is for Medicare for all” and action on climate change issues “will disappear completely if he becomes president.”  However, he suggested there may be more that is motivating Sanders’ workers tour, which has also taken him to Ohio and New York this summer.  According to Bannon, the Vermont lawmaker, who is running for re-election this year, could also be campaigning for Labor secretary in Biden’s second term. “He may still want that Labor job,” he said.  Biden had revealed in 2021 that he was considering Sanders for the role in his administration, but due to the tight majority in the Senate and the potential for Vermont to vote Republican, he did not give it to him.  “Bernie and I agreed — matter of fact, Bernie said this — ‘we can’t put control of the Senate at risk on the outcome of a special election in Vermont,’” Biden said when announcing Boston Mayor Marty Walsh was chosen for the position, the Daily Beast reported at the time. A White House spokesperson disputed that the administration was actively considering Cabinet candidates for a potential second term. The senator did not provide comment when asked by Fox News Digital whether he would accept the role. NEW YORK TIMES CHANGES HEADLINE ABOUT BOWMAN’S DEFEAT, INITIALLY BLAMED ‘FLOOD OF PRO-ISRAEL MONEY’ Sanders’ swing through worker-heavy Wisconsin comes as Trump is competing with Biden for the critical voter group, opting to meet with the Teamsters union and speaking to a group of United Auto Workers members during their strike. Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital in a statement, “Bernie Sanders is a proud socialist whose entire political career has been based on taking money away from hardworking people and giving it back to the corrupt government.” “If Biden and Bernie are allowed another four years, they will sign the largest tax increase in American history which will rob the average working family in Wisconsin of nearly $40,000 per year, on top of their record-high inflation. President Trump will bring down inflation, make gas cheap again, and pass more tax cuts to put more money back into the pockets of workers and families,” she said.  Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.