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The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the Trump administration in a case involving a voter database, according to early reports. The decision allows the administration's push concerning voter roll records to proceed. Details of the ruling's scope and the justices' split, if any, are not yet available, and reactions from voting rights groups are still coming in.

A group associated with former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger has come out against deploying military personnel at polling sites, adding its voice to concerns about armed forces being involved in election administration. The position feeds a wider debate in the United States over the role of troops in domestic affairs and election security heading into upcoming votes.

Representative Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, has received what is described as a lukewarm endorsement from LUPE Votes, the political arm of the immigrant-rights organization La Unión del Pueblo Entero. The guarded backing of a sitting incumbent is drawing attention in the Rio Grande Valley, where Cuellar's moderate record on immigration has long put him at odds with advocacy groups ahead of the next election cycle.