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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Honest Elections Project filed an amicus brief on behalf of the petitioner in Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Nago, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the case, with an attorney arguing that voter rolls being available for public view are vital to election integrity.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Twenty-two states have gone to court to block the Trump administration from accessing a database containing the personal information of roughly 17 million commercial drivers. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the federal government is entitled to that data and needs it to keep the highways safe.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Energy prices are higher on average in Blue states than they are in Red states because of energy policies that prioritize renewable sources such as wind and solar “over reliability and affordability,” two energy groups argue in a joint report and website.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) - As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear a potentially pivotal lawsuit over climate change by Colorado municipalities this October, Hawaii seems to have its feet planted on both sides of the debate.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Nearly two dozen state attorneys general banded together as early as April 2024 to plot litigation against President Donald Trump long before he was reelected, according to a confidential document obtained by The Center Square.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Voters in Hawaii will head to the polls on Saturday to elect partisan representatives in federal and state elections.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta is co-leading another lawsuit against the Trump administration over tariffs.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Prices at the pump have once again changed course and begun to rise after a month of steadily easing on consumers.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Policies made decades ago cause gas prices to be on average higher in Blue states than Red states, with a 55 cent gap per gallon, a new report from the Institute for Energy Research shows.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) - The Trump administration has failed to convince a Hawaii federal judge to revisit a ruling that prevents it from stopping a climate change lawsuit brought by the state attorney general.
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