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In refusing to intervene in the California redistricting, the justices, without explanation and without any noted dissents, left in place the state's mid-decade redistricting, which could result in five additional House seats in Congress for Democrats.
California's push for a new map began last summer in response to a similar and overtly partisan mid-decade redistricting plan by Republicans in Texas.
And now the Supreme Court, as it had done before in the Texas case, has left in place the new redistricting in California.
The end result is that the two states may well cancel out each other's partisan gains.
Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
While the Trump administration supported the Texas redistricting, it opposed California's, describing it as tainted by an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
But California countered that its redistricting, unlike the redistricting in Texas, was approved by California voters by a nearly two-thirds margin.
And the Supreme Court seemed to conclude that what's good for the Texas goose is good for the California gander.
Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
Today's case involves Trump's attempt to fire economist Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor appointed by President Biden.
He's accused her of mortgage fraud, a charge she vehemently denies.
While that is the case officially before the court...
Ten days ago, the Trump administration clearly laid the groundwork for firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell, whom Trump himself appointed.
In subpoenas served on the Fed, the administration threatened Powell with a criminal indictment for allegedly lying to Congress.
about cost overruns on two Federal Reserve Board buildings.
That, in turn, prompted Powell to post on social media video in which he said that the threat was aimed at serving the president's political interests.
Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
President Trump, like other presidents before him, has tried to get the Fed to lower interest rates more quickly.