Democrats scrape by in New Jersey governor’s race after disaster in Virginia – as it happened
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- Georgia's Fulton County election director to step down after intense year
- Democrats' Virginia defeat raises stark questions for Biden's tenure
- Senate Republicans again block key voting rights bill
- House Democrats put paid family leave back into Build Back Better bill
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It's been an incredibly lively morning in US politics and the blog is bursting at the seams with news, so do stay with us. My colleague Lauren Aratani will take you through the next couple of hours and later the east coast team will hand over to our co-workers in California to report all the latest.
Here's where things stand so far:
Lower courts rejected the argument by the plaintiffs that the law violates the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The lawsuit seeks an unrestricted right to carry concealed handguns in public.
The Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority is considered sympathetic to an expansive view of Second Amendment rights.
New York's law requires applicants to state a specific reason for needing a gun for self-defense.