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What is the latest update on the FBI's raid related to the 2020 election?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump is talking about the FBI's raid this week on a local election office outside Atlanta, Georgia. FBI agents took away hundreds of boxes with ballots from the 2020 presidential election. Georgia officials are suing to get them back. They're afraid someone will tamper with the ballots.
Trump spoke in an interview last night with NBC News.
There should be nothing wrong with the fact that they went in, got ballots from a while ago, and they're going to look at them. And now they're going to find out the true winner of that state. And you know what? If there was cheating, which there was, but if there was cheating, it should be fine because we can't let it happen again.
Trump did not win the 2020 presidential election, although he falsely claims he did. He also claims he won the state of Georgia then. He lost that state too. No widespread cheating has ever been substantiated. Trump is also demanding that elections be taken over by the federal government. He can't do that either.
The Constitution states in Article I, voting is a right reserved to states, although Congress can't pass laws about voting. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block a new congressional map in California. This favors Democrats. It had been challenged by California Republicans and the Trump administration. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.
In a one-sentence unsigned order, the high court, without explanation, left in place the state's mid-decade redistricting. which could yield five additional congressional seats for California in this fall's election. In December, the court took a similar step, effectively upholding a new mid-decade Texas map that could yield five additional seats for Republicans.
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 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. There were no noted dissents. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
A federal judge in Florida has sentenced the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump on a golf course in 2024. NPR's Greg Allen reports Ryan Ruth will spend the rest of his life in prison.
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