Traci Mumford

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Now, back to Washington for a few quick updates.

At the Supreme Court yesterday, the justices handed conservatives a major win in a case about so-called conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors.

In an eight-to-one decision, the court threw out a Colorado law that banned mental health professionals from using talk therapy to try and change kids' sexual orientation or gender identity.

The justices said the law was a, quote, egregious assault on free speech and the First Amendment.

The court's decision has implications for more than 20 other states that have similar laws barring conversion therapy, which critics and major medical organizations say is ineffective and potentially dangerous for young people.

Also.

President Trump is stepping up his efforts to take more federal control over elections, signing an executive order yesterday that would create a national list of eligible voters and restrict mail-in ballots.

It's part of his ongoing effort to promote his false claims of widespread voter fraud.

And it could violate the Constitution.

The president has no explicit authority to manage elections.

a power the Constitution gives to states and Congress.

Trump's previous executive orders around elections, including one requiring proof of citizenship to vote, have largely been blocked by the courts.

And last update.

President Trump is vowing to fight an order from a federal judge that's temporarily blocked construction of his ballroom.

In the decision, which was handed down yesterday, the judge wrote that work on the massive White House expansion has to stop, quote, unless and until Congress blesses this project.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation

which has been leading the court battle against the ballroom, has raised concerns about the breakneck speed at which it's moved forward and how it's being paid for.

Hearings about it have been going on for months, and the judge appeared to lose patience with the government's lawyer, asking him at one point to, quote, be serious and back off claims that the $400 million undertaking is comparable to minor renovations that previous presidents have done, like adding a tennis court.

The Hollywood tabloid TMZ, which is known for sending paparazzi and tipsters after celebrities, is turning its sights on Congress.