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Top eight CNS stories for today including Democrats boycotted the vote to advance President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick to the full Senate; President Donald Trump and Joe Biden are set to clash on stage for the last time; A panel of three federal judges ruled that Trump’s memo excluding undocumented immigrants from the 2020 census count is unlawful, and more.

/ October 22, 2020
Images of people who've been helped by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) occupy the seats of Democratic senators boycotting a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting on the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP)

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Top eight CNS stories for today including Democrats boycotted the vote to advance President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick to the full Senate; Trump and Joe Biden are set to clash on stage for the last time; A panel of three federal judges ruled that the exclusion of undocumented immigrants from the 2020 census count is unlawful, and more.

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National

1.) Saying they will not give the process “further legitimacy,” Senate Democrats boycotted the vote Thursday to advance President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick to the full Senate.

Images of people who've been helped by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) occupy the seats of Democratic senators boycotting a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting on the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP)

2.) With new debate rules and less than two weeks to go until Election Day, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are set to clash on stage for the last time Thursday night in Nashville, a city feeling the effects of the pandemic.

Mock debaters perform onstage as preparations take place for the second Presidential debate at Belmont University, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden are scheduled to debate Thursday, Oct. 22. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

3.) A panel of three federal judges ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump’s memo excluding undocumented immigrants from the 2020 census count is unlawful, finding the U.S. Constitution mandates the enumeration of all people in the nation, not solely citizens. 

In this June 25, 2020, file photo, two young children hold signs through the car window that make reference to the 2020 U.S. Census as they wait in the car with their family at an outreach event in Dallas. Thousands of census takers are about to begin the most labor-intensive part of America’s once-a-decade headcount (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

4.) Contesting the new threshold for establishing proof of housing discrimination, two nonprofits argued Thursday that the change set to take effect next week will “set the clock back a half century in the fight for fair housing.”

5.) Fighting a two-front war against the border wall, the National Butterfly Center in South Texas has brought legal challenges against both the Trump administration and a group raising money for a privately funded wall.  

The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas. (Photo via Mtwrighter/Wikipedia Commons)

Regional

6.) In a win for local law enforcement agencies, the Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the state’s largest police department to continue collecting license plate data picked up when cars drive by automated scanners.

7.) Three Ninth Circuit judges heard arguments Thursday over the constitutionality of an Oakland ordinance requiring landlords to pay relocation costs for tenants displaced by evictions when property owners move back in.

A man wears a mask to protect himself from the coronavirus while running in front of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, Sunday, April 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

International

8.) Ferrari got the green light from the European Union’s high court Thursday to continue using the name of its iconic car, the Testarossa, even though the model has been discontinued.  

A 1991 Ferrari Testarossa is seen at a 2018 classic car show. (Photo via Vauxford/Wikipedia Commons)
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