Justice Elena Kagan emphasized the importance of precedence Friday, and emphasized the need for the Supreme Court to remain humble.
Driving the news: "It's a kind of hubris to say, we're just throwing that all out because we think we know better, and so that's important," Kagan said at the University of Pennsylvania in a livestreamed interview with school president Liz Magill.
It's still early, but voter turnout for the 2022 midterms appears to be on pace to shatter previous records.
The big picture: The 2018 midterm election broke records for early voting and voter turnout. All eyes are on 2022 to see if such a feat can happen again.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Saturday said passing abandoned portions of the Build Back Better Act, as well as legislation to combat rising food and energy costs, would be a “top priority” if Democrats hold onto the House.
Why it matters: While House Republicans have heralded the “Commitment to America” as their roadmap for the majority, Democrats have been more muddled about their prospective legislative checklist.
Migrant border crossings in the 2022 fiscal year topped 2.76 million, breaking the previous record, according to data from Customs and Border Protection.
Why it matters: The sharp increase in border crossings comes as the Biden administration has faced challenges in trying to formalize its own border policy.
President Biden intends to run for president in 2024 and has the first lady's support, he told MSNBC in a new interview Friday.
What he said: “I have not made that formal decision, but it’s my intention. My intention to run again. And we have time to make that decision,” the president told MSNBC.
Why it matters: Bannon made the predictions hours after he was sentenced to four months in prison for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee.
A Texas state trooper who was among the first to respond to the Uvalde shooting earlier this year has been fired, the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed to Axios.
Why it matters: The trooper, Sgt. Juan Maldonado, is the third officer with ties to the botched response by police to the Uvalde school shooting who has been fired.
Political candidates are increasingly deciding not to participate in debates — and their rivals are trying to make them pay a price.
Why it matters: Debates — once conceived as a frank exchange about serious issues, then as a chance to score a few rhetorical points in front of a big audience — have become a casualty of politicians' increasing ability to bypass traditional media.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed a lawsuit against Google in a U.S. district court in California for allegedly putting its campaign emails in the spam folders of its millions of users.
Why it matters: Google last month launched a pilot program to keep campaign emails out of spam. But the RNC has been criticizing the program, arguing it doesn't help enough with political email filtering.
