Summary
That’s all the live coverage for today, thanks for following along. Some highlights and links from the day:
House lawmakers voted to reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa), including a key measure that allows for warrantless surveillance of Americans.
The reauthorization of Fisa was considered a win for the embattled House speaker, Mike Johnson.
New research showed that rates of people seeking permanent contraception – such as tubal ligation or vasectomies – jumped after the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade.
Donald Trump and Mike Johnson held a joint press conference promoting legislation to “require proof of citizenship to vote” despite federal law already prohibiting non-citizen voting and a lack of evidence of migrants casting ballots.
Trump said he would “absolutely” testify at his upcoming New York criminal trial.
Trump took credit for eroding abortion rights, saying, “We broke Roe v Wade … and we gave it back to the states.”
Kamala Harris condemned Arizona’s abortion ban at a rally in Tucson, saying Trump “wants to take America back to the 1800s” and blaming the former president for state bans across the US.
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Kamala Harris on Arizona's abortion ban: 'Donald Trump did this'
Speaking about abortion rights at a campaign rally in Tucson, vice-president Kamala Harris said “momentum is on our side”, citing voters’ support for reproductive rights in ballot measures across the US:
From Kansas to California to Kentucky, in Michigan, Montana, Vermont, and Ohio, the people of America have voted for freedom and not just by a little, but often by overwhelming margins, proving also that this is not just a partisan issue, proving that the voice of the people has been heard.
Harris was speaking days after Arizona’s supreme court ruled that a near-total abortion ban law dating back to 1864 could go into effect. Of that law, she said:
Women here live under one of the most extreme abortion bans in our nation. No exception for rape or incest, prison time for doctors and nurses and abortion made illegal before most women even know they’re pregnant. The overturning of Roe was without any question a seismic event, and this ban here in Arizona is one of the biggest aftershocks yet … this law was passed in the 1800s before Arizona was even a state, before women could even vote. What has happened here in Arizona is a new inflection point … overturning Roe was just the opening act of a larger strategy to take women’s rights and freedoms … we all must understand who is to blame. Former president Donald Trump did this.”
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