Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* In a rather dramatic surprise, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning struck down Republican-drawn congressional districts in Alabama, in a case in which Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, both conservatives, joined the court’s three liberals in the majority. It’s a ruling that’s likely to affect district maps in other southern states.
* Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a longshot Republican presidential candidate, argued last night that his party “should clarify that there is no pledge to support a nominee if they are found guilty of espionage or a serious felony.” I find it extraordinary that a major American political party would have to consider such a clarification — and almost certainly won’t.
* As her second term in Michigan gets underway, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is reportedly creating a new political action committee. The Democrat’s operation will be called the “Fight Like Hell PAC.”
* Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is wasting little time in using his Republican presidential campaign to go after Donald Trump and the former president’s re-election effort. “The grift from this family is breathtaking,” Christie said on Tuesday night at a town-hall-style event in New Hampshire. “It’s breathtaking. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Kushner walk out of the White House and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis? That’s your money he stole. … That makes us a banana republic.”









