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| Good afternoon, OnPolitics readers! |
| The Supreme Court on Tuesday shot down a state prohibition on using public money to attend schools that offer religious instruction, the latest case in which the high court has permitted taxpayer funds to be used for religious purposes. |
| At issue was an unusual program in Maine that provides subsidies for education in rural districts that don't have their own high school. The state allows parents in that situation to use the money that would have been spent locally to send their children to other public or private schools – but not to programs that offer religious instruction. |
| Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for a 6-3 majority of conservative justices, holding the state's prohibition violates the First Amendment. |
| "The state pays tuition for certain students at private schools – so long as the schools are not religious," Roberts wrote. "That is discrimination against religion." |
| It's Amy with today's top stories out of Washington. |
What you may have missed from today's Jan. 6 hearing |
| The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots used its fourth public hearing on Tuesday to examine how former President Donald Trump leaned on state officials to try to illegally overturn the 2020 election. |
| At the center of the plot were efforts by Trump allies to press for alternative slates of electors, who would eventually flip the Electoral College results against then-candidate Joe Biden. In order for that strategy to work, the panel's leaders said, the former president needed state officials across the country in key battlegrounds to comply. |
| Trump tried to do this through a massive pressure campaign that he administered either directly or through surrogates or supporters, who lawmakers said often used threats of violence against civic leaders. |
| Plot with fake electors: Multiple witnesses in taped testimony talked about a scheme across the country to decertify Biden's electors and then install alternate electors who would back Trump. |
| Text messages obtained by the committee, for instance, showed a staffer for U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., wanted to hand-deliver fake elector votes from Michigan and Wisconsin to former Vice President Mike Pence. |
| Trump pressures Raffensperger to find votes: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who recently won his GOP primary battle, testified on Tuesday that Trump came up short because roughly 28,000 voters skipped the presidential contest. |
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Real quick: stories you'll want to read |
| • | What does Ginni Thomas have to do with Jan. 6? Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, may soon offer testimony to the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. | | • | First Native American woman to be U.S. treasurer: President Joe Biden will nominate Lifetime Chief Marilynn Malerba as U.S. treasurer, making her the first Native American to hold the position, the White House announced. | | • | How much would a gas tax holiday actually help? Facing pressure to do something legislatively to curb skyrocketing gas prices, President Joe Biden said Monday he will make a decision on pursuing a federal gas tax holiday by the end of the week. While it might provide some short-term relief, the policy has plenty of critics. | | • | Cornyn faces GOP ire at home: Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell tapped U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, to help lead a bipartisan effort to craft gun legislation. But on Friday, at the Texas Republican Party convention in Houston, he was showered with boos as he defended the deal he is working to reach in Washington. | |
Tonight: DC, Virginia primary elections and Alabama, Georgia special runoffs |
| The District of Columbia and Virginia will hold primary elections Tuesday, featuring an incumbent mayor seeking a third term and competitive Republican primaries in districts that could determine if the GOP regains control of Congress. |
| In Alabama and Georgia, voters will return to the polls a month after their May primaries in a number of runoff elections. In Georgia, Trump's influence will be tested in two House runoffs, where his chosen candidates trailed in the initial primary results. |
| Republicans will determine which candidate will likely succeed longtime retiring Sen. Richard Shelby in the Alabama Senate runoff. |
| Former Business Council of Alabama President Katie Britt and Rep. Mo Brooks emerged from the Republican primary May 24, but neither with enough votes to win outright. Brooks, who spoke ahead of Trump at a rally Jan. 6 in Washington before Trump supporters angry over the election loss attacked the Capitol, has billed himself as "MAGA Mo." |
| Trump backtracked on his endorsement in March, citing Brooks encouraging a crowd to put the 2020 election behind them as one of the reasons he no longer supported the congressman. But Brooks has continued to run as the Trump candidate in the race. |
| "Where pride is the most needed" Though LGBTQ pride events have long been mainstay celebrations in big cities, their presence in rural and small-town America has grown in recent years, experts said, claiming recognition in some of the more conservative areas of the country. - Amy |
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