
The Electoral Count Act and the next steps on voting rights
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This week, President Biden weighed in on whether the midterm elections this year could be conducted fairly if, as expected, Democrats failed to pass sweeping voting rights legislation.
"It all depends on whether or not we're able to make the case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election," Mr. Biden replied, in a news conference Wednesday.
Asked both to clarify his remarks and to opine on whether the midterms "would in any way be illegitimate," the president responded, "I think it easily could be — be illegitimate."

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport a group of migrants with criminal records held at a U.S. naval base in Djibouti, clarifying the scope of its earlier order that lifted restrictions on removals to countries that are not deportees' places of origin.