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  The Supreme Court lets California use its new, Democratic-friendly congressional map

  The Supreme Court has cleared the way for California to use its new congressional map for this year's midterm election. Voters approved it as a Democratic counterresponse to Texas' new GOP-friendly map.

  • Nina Totenberg
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  As some states try to show ICE the door, others put out the welcome mat

  After ICE federal agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota, the divide between states on either side of the immigration enforcement debate is growing wider.

  • Mawa Iqbal

• This year's midterm elections could see unprecedented involvement from the federal government

  Top state-level election officials react to the Jan. 28 raid on the Fulton County, Ga, elections office. The FBI executed a search warrant seeking ballots from the 2020 election.

  • Scott Simon
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  The FBI conducts a search at the Fulton County election office in Georgia

  The FBI would not clarify whether the action is tied to the 2020 election, but last month the Department of Justice announced it's suing Fulton County for records related to the election.

  • NPR Washington Desk
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  Trump to hold de facto midterm kickoff in Iowa focused on the economy, energy prices

  President Trump's rally in Iowa on Tuesday brings his message to a state disproportionately affected by his economic policies and whose voters could help determine control of Congress.

  • Stephen Fowler

• Rahm Emanuel steers a course between 'monopolists' and 'Marxists'

  NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with longtime Democrat Rahm Emanuel about politics in the Trump era.

  • Steve Inskeep
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  A federal judge dismisses the DOJ's effort to get voter data from California

  The Trump administration has been dealt its first legal setback in its unprecedented effort to consolidate voter data traditionally held by states.

  • Miles Parks
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  Candidates have legal standing to challenge election laws, the Supreme Court rules

  In a case related to Illinois state law about the return of mail ballots, the U.S. Supreme Court says political candidates have the legal standing to challenge election policies.

  • Ashley Lopez
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  Gerrymander Washington state? Democrats want to talk about it

  As red and now blue states around the country try to redraw their congressional maps, the conversation in Washington state to this point has been: There’s "literally no way." But Joe Fitzgibbon, the Democrats’ majority leader in the state House of Representatives, wants to start a conversation.

  • Scott Greenstone
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  A Supreme Court ruling could bring historic drop in Black representation in Congress

  If the Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, it could usher in the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.

  • Hansi Lo Wang

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