Trump return to White House would be perilous for democracy, conservative lawyers say – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. You can read the latest on the Wisconsin supreme court and Trump appealing Colorado's ruling here:

• Wisconsin supreme court appears poised to strike down legislative maps and end Republican dominance
• Trump appeals Colorado ruling that said he engaged in January 6 insurrection

Joe Biden says negotiators are very close" to securing the release of potentially dozens of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

The US president was speaking at the White House and said: We're now very close, very close - we can bring some of these hostages home very soon, but don't want to get into the details of things."

Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass his $106bn supplementary budget request that he said includes funding to step up" the fight against a flow of deadly fentanyl entering the US. The president, speaking at the White House before leaving for a Thanksgiving break in Massachusetts, said the fentanyl crisis was hurting families in every state and curbing it was something every American needs to get behind".

Wisconsin's supreme court justices have been grilling attorneys for both the respondents and plaintiffs in a much-watched gerrymandering case that could end in a complete redraw of the state's legislative districts. Lawyers for Democratic governor Tony Evers say the current maps favoring Republicans breach a law that says they must be contiguous"; a conservative justice says the plaintiffs want to upend 50 years of precedent.

A trio of prominent conservative lawyers said in a scathing New York Times oped that a second term in office for former president Donald Trump would imperil democracy. George Conway, J Michael Luttig and Barbara Comstock say Trump has surrounded himself with grifters, frauds and con men willing to subvert the Constitution" and that our country is in a constitutional emergency, if not a constitutional crisis".