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Top CNS stories for today including the en banc D.C. Circuit rejecting claims from Florida voters who wanted to forgo campaign donations in the primary season to double up in the general election; coal miners and other industry supporters face off against environmentalists at a public hearing on the Trump administration’s plan repeal of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan; a hotly anticipated cellphone-data battle that went before the Supreme Court has experts predicting an endorsement this term of digital-privacy rights; a new study finds sea-level rise could threaten more than 13,000 archaeological sites, buildings, cultural landscapes and cemeteries along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts; the European Court of Justice rules an internet service can’t record TV broadcasts and store them on its cloud for subscribers to view without the permission of rights owners, and more.
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1.) In National news the en banc D.C. Circuit rejected claims Tuesday from Florida voters who wanted to forgo campaign donations in the primary season to double up in the general election. The ruling upheld contribution ceilings in federal election law.
2.) Senators sparred over the judicial nomination process during a hearing considering two circuit court judges on Wednesday, with Democrats objecting to the end of a century-old tradition that allows for input from home-state senators.
3.) Coal miners and other industry supporters faced off against environmentalists Tuesday at a public hearing on the Trump administration’s plan repeal of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.
4.) A hotly anticipated cellphone-data battle that went before the Supreme Court on Wednesday has experts predicting an endorsement this term of digital-privacy rights.
5.) The U.S. government lost its bid, at least temporarily, to abruptly eject several dozen Indonesian Christians who have been living in New Hampshire for years as part of a deportation-deferment program.
6.) In Regional news a family that lost nine members in the Texas church massacre has filed a claim against the United States, saying the Air Force could have prevented the shooter from buying the guns he used to kill 26 people and wound 20 more by entering him into an FBI database.
7.) Over three weeks after Virginians went to the polls, Democrats are challenging the results in two districts where the vote margin was 106 votes or less.
