Article 6G6BE Election day 2023 live: polls close in Ohio and Virginia where abortion rights are at stake; Mississippi partially extends voting

Election day 2023 live: polls close in Ohio and Virginia where abortion rights are at stake; Mississippi partially extends voting

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Chris Stein (now) and Joanna Walters (earlier)
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Polls close in Ohio, where voters are deciding whether to protect access to abortion; Virginia polls close as governor hopes Republicans take state legislature

US supreme court justices on today appeared inclined to uphold the legality of a federal law that makes it a crime for people under domestic violence restraining orders to have guns in the latest major case to test the willingness of its conservative majority to further expand gun rights, Reuters reports.

The justices heard arguments in an appeal by Joe Biden's administration of a lower court's ruling striking down the law - intended to protect victims of domestic abuse - as a violation of the US constitution's second amendment right to keep and bear arms".

I mean, not taking your recycling to the curb on Thursdays, if it's a serious problem it's irresponsible," Roberts said.

What seems irresponsible to some people might seem like, well, it's not a big deal to others."

And the reason that we use the term not responsible' is because it is the standard this court has articulated" in its three major gun rights rulings in the past 15 years, Prelogar said.

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