Daily Docket — Wednesday, April 17

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Here are some updates from the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Today was another opinion day for the Supreme Court, but it did not issue a decision on South Carolina's congressional map. The Court has not yet scheduled its next opinion day.

  
  

• The state Republican parties in Nebraska and New Mexico, along with a number of county GOP parties in Arizona, Georgia, Nebraska and Oregon, urged the Supreme Court to take up Kari Lake’s lawsuit trying to ban voting machines in Arizona.
  
  

  • The Arizona, Delaware and Georgia Republican parties previously filed amicus briefs also asking the nation’s highest court to take up the case.
    
    

• For the first time in history, the Supreme Court will decide if a president has immunity from criminal acts taken while in office. We explain what Trump is claiming in his upcoming oral argument and possible implications of the ruling. Read it here.

Here are some other updates from today.

• The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the controversial “county line” ballot design for New Jersey’s Democratic primary elections. Voters in the state, for the first time in decades, will cast ballots with a conventional design utilized in all other states.
  
  

• Commissioners in New Hampshire's Strafford County filed a lawsuit challenging the new single-member districts for their elections. The lawsuit alleges changing the election method mid-decade violates state law and the state constitution.