The U.S. House of Representatives advanced bills to extend a surveillance authority, a budget plan for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, and a farm bill. The procedural vote to advance the legislation passed 216–210. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act at the center of the debate allows intelligence agencies to conduct warrantless surveillance on foreign targets located abroad.
The Supreme Court ruled to limit how race can be used in redistricting in a 6–3 decision in the Louisiana case. The case focused on whether a lower court order to create a second black-majority congressional district in Louisiana was constitutional. The court says race cannot be used as the primary factor in drawing electoral district boundaries….