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Partisanship around the country's big anniversary has put Democrats in a bind: They want to criticize the president without appearing unpatriotic.
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The chief justice faced down the president, forged unlikely coalitions and achieved long-sought goals.
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The expansion of an investigation into Fulton County's election office reflects President Trump's desire to prove his baseless claims that the 2020 election in Georgia was rigged.
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President Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections. In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted, as long as they were postmarked by then. Although a "rare victory for voting rights," the conservative justices' assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud — a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for — is "very disturbing," says Ari Berman, the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. "My fear is that this is going to embolden Republicans to double down on their efforts to try to get rid of mail voting, including the SAVE America Act, Trump's sweeping voter suppression bill, which he seems desperate to go to any lengths to try to pass," says Berman, who also comments on the court's decision to strike down a federal law limiting campaign spending.
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The justices rejected some of President Trump's signature initiatives, but delivered lasting, long-sought conservative wins.
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