US Political Landscape: Key Developments Shaping 2024 Elections

The summary highlights critical US domestic news including the US Supreme Court's ruling on Trump's immunity, Biden's 2024 election doubts, and delays in Trump's hush money sentencing. The impact of the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, RFK Jr.'s controversies, and Giuliani's disbarment are also discussed.

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

Factbox-US Supreme Court's immunity ruling could exclude evidence against Trump

The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity tossed out one plank of the federal criminal case involving former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and could exclude other aspects of the case, too. Here is a look at how Monday's ruling could affect the evidence available to prosecutors.

Biden faces doubts from Democrats about his 2024 re-election

Some elected Democrats loyal to President Joe Biden raised fresh questions on Tuesday about his 2024 re-election bid, with one calling for him to step aside, a shift after many defended him in the wake of last week's shaky debate performance. Whether Biden continues his 2024 bid for president after his halting debate performance against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is largely his decision, Democrats and political strategists have said.

Trump hush money sentencing delayed to September, weeks before US election

Donald Trump's sentencing for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star was delayed on Tuesday until Sept. 18, less than seven weeks before the U.S. election. Justice Juan Merchan pushed back the sentencing date so he can weigh the former U.S. president's argument he should have been immune from prosecution under Monday's landmark Supreme Court ruling that presidents cannot be criminally prosecuted for official acts.

U.S. Civil Rights Act's victories at risk, say leaders on 60th anniversary

Courtland Cox was 22 years old when he stood alongside civil rights icons Bayard Rustin and John Lewis at the March on Washington in 1963, joined by thousands of other Black Americans, including students Cox organized, who arrived on charter buses from the South. The march is credited with shifting the tide for social rights in the United States, paving the way for the Civil Rights Act signed into law 60 years ago today.

Biden says he 'nearly fell asleep' during debate after world travel

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday acknowledged his performance during last Thursday's presidential debate wasn't his best, but blamed it on jet lag after two overseas trips earlier in June. Biden has faced mounting questions about his 2024 reelection bid after last week's shaky debate performance, with one House of Representatives fellow Democrat on Tuesday publicly calling on him to withdraw from the race.

Social conservatives push Trump to back federal role on abortion

A leading U.S. anti-abortion group on Tuesday warned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump not to water down language in the party platform on abortion restrictions, the most visible sign yet of a widening fissure between Trump and social conservatives on the issue. The reproach by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America president Marjorie Dannenfelser comes as party members head to Milwaukee to draft the platform, which serves as a statement of policy principles, ahead of what is intended to be a national show of unity at the party's convention this month.

RFK Jr. says he has 'skeletons in my closet' after sexual assault allegation

Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday he has "so many skeletons in my closet," when asked about an allegation in a Vanity Fair article that he sexually assaulted a former family babysitter. Kennedy also denied a picture of him posing with the barbecued carcass of a large animal - which Vanity Fair said appeared to be a dog - belonged to a canine. He said it was the carcass of a goat.

Exclusive-One in three Democrats think Biden should quit the race, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

One in three Democrats think U.S. President Joe Biden should end his reelection bid following last week's debate against Republican Donald Trump, but no prominent elected Democrat does any better than Biden in a hypothetical matchup against Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Tuesday. The two-day poll found that both Trump, 78, and Biden, 81, maintain the support of 40% of registered voters, suggesting that Biden has not lost ground since the debate. Election Day is Nov. 5.

Giuliani loses New York law license after backing Trump's false 2020 election claims

Rudy Giuliani lost his New York law license on Tuesday, after a state appeals court found he had lied in arguing that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from his client, former Republican U.S. President Donald Trump. The court found that Giuliani, 80, the former New York mayor who served as Trump's personal lawyer, "baselessly attacked and undermined the integrity of this country's electoral process" and "actively contributed to the national strife that has followed the 2020 presidential election, for which he is entirely unrepentant."

Trump-backed challenger beats US House Republican Bob Good in Virginia primary

Republican U.S. Representative Bob Good, the leader of a hardline House group, lost a Virginia primary for his seat to state Senator John McGuire, who was endorsed by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Good, chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, immediately demanded a recount.

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