Deadly storms in Hawaii and Indiana and Todd Blanche open to legal fight over voter rolls: Weekend Rundown
One person was killed in a storm-related car crash as Hurricane Lala imposed fierce wind and pouring rain on Hawaii’s Big Island, Gov.Josh Green said.01:07Hurricane Lala hits Hawaii's Big Island with heavy rains00:0000:00Honolulu Fire Chief Sheldon Hao said first responders responded to reports Saturday of damaged roofs and downed trees.
More than 130,000 utility customers in the state were without electricity Sunday morning.Lala just avoided making landfall on the Big Island, which hasn’t had a direct hit from a hurricane in 155 years.Parts of the Big Island and Maui reported about a foot of rain, the National Hurricane Center said.Extreme weather was also affecting Indiana, where at least six people died in a powerful storm system, officials said.
Severe flooding inundated communities and strained emergency services across the state.‘Meet the Press’Add to GoogleAttorney General Todd Blanche says the DOJ may take states’ voter-roll fight to Supreme Court01:40Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday there’s a “possibility” the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to intervene in dozens of cases in which judges have ruled against the federal government’s efforts to gain broad access to state voter rolls ahead of November’s midterm elections.“Absolutely it’s a possibility,” Blanche told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” when he was asked whether he would appeal the 22 cases the Justice Department has lost so far to the Supreme Court.“Election integrity is something that President Trump ran on, and the American people elected him.It’s something that every American should care about,” Blanche said.
The cases stem from an executive order Trump signed directing states to turn over voter rolls, including voters’ names, dates of birth, residential addresses, state driver’s license information and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers.The federal government says it’s collecting the data so the Justice Departm...