Washington Today (6-27-23): Supreme Court rejects giving state lawmakers sole power over elections

U.S. Supreme Court decides that the North Carolina Supreme Court could strike down a congressional redistricting plan it deemed was too partisan under state law.
In the decision, the Supreme Court rejects the "independent state legislature" theory claiming state lawmakers have the sole power to make laws governing federal elections.

We will get reaction to the decision in the case Moore v. Harper and talk about the broader implications with Politico Senior Legal Affairs Reporter Josh Gerstein (5).

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says the overnight release of a 2021 audio recording in which he appears to admit he is unlawfully possessing a classified document, as a recent federal indictment accuses him off, is "just another hoax" and "election interference."

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says Donald Trump, when he was president, "showed moral weakness" in dealing with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Pentagon gives a readout of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin actions this past weekend, when the Wagner mercenary group started marching its forces towards Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin today is making speeches designed to show he his firmly in control, now that the Wagner threat has passed and its leader is in exile in Belarus.

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