{"id":173878,"date":"2025-12-01T17:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/live-updates-indiana-lawmakers-expected-to-take-up-redistricting-alina-habba-disqualified-as-acting-u-s-attorney-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T17:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:19:11","slug":"live-updates-indiana-lawmakers-expected-to-take-up-redistricting-alina-habba-disqualified-as-acting-u-s-attorney-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/live-updates-indiana-lawmakers-expected-to-take-up-redistricting-alina-habba-disqualified-as-acting-u-s-attorney-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Indiana lawmakers expected to take up redistricting; Alina Habba disqualified as acting U.S. attorney – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump has pushed Indiana lawmakers to approve the maps, which would benefit Republicans.
Austin McCubbin, a senior adviser to Rep. Nancy Mace\u2019s campaign for governor in South Carolina, resigned on Monday, accusing the Republican congresswoman in a post on X of deciding \u201cto turn her back on MAGA.\u201d
McCubbin last year served as South Carolina state director for President Donald Trump\u2019s 2024 campaign. Mace’s campaign had touted his hiring<\/a> as a move that “underscores Mace’s commitment to the America First agenda.”
The contested GOP primary for governor had already turned into a fight to win Trump\u2019s endorsement<\/a> \u2014 with Mace playing a big role in that battle.
In his post<\/a>, McCubbin said Mace had \u201cfully embraced\u201d a super PAC that has supported Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Thomas Massie. Trump has been deeply critical of Paul and Massie, Kentucky Republicans who have broken with him on multiple policy fronts.
\u201cMy name has been used publicly, while going back on her word to pay me, to trade on my Team Trump status and to work on her behalf with the White House, and I am 100% breaking with her campaign out of loyalty to the President,\u201d McCubbin wrote. \u201cThe 2026 gubernatorial race has always been first and foremost a run for the President\u2019s endorsement. South Carolina is Trump Country.\u201d
McCubbin said he first noticed the Paul-affiliated PAC, Protect Freedom PAC, began spending on Mace\u2019s behalf last month, though he did not make much of it at the time.
\u201cWhen I talked to Nancy last Wednesday, it became clear she has fully embraced the Rand Paul PAC,\u201d he added.
\u201cNancy Mace is wittingly or unwittingly a proxy for Rand Paul\u2019s 2028 presidential campaign,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat\u2019s the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back.\u201d
McCubbin added that after warning Mace of the political risks she would face, the congresswoman \u201caccused me of mansplaining, a woke term used by people who hate men, who ironically are her best demographic.\u201d
\u201cAnyone who knows me knows that I have nothing personally against Rand or Nancy,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThis is about loyalty.\u201d
\u201cMy advice to the President, my friends in the White House, and South Carolina Trump voters: scratch her name from the list,\u201d McCubbin wrote.
Trump said yesterday that he would release the results of his MRI test that he received in October<\/a>.
\u201cIf you want to have it released, I\u2019ll release it,\u201d the president said during an exchange with reporters as he traveled back to Washington from Florida.
He said the results of the MRI were \u201cperfect.\u201d
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals today\u00a0upheld a lower court ruling\u00a0<\/a>disqualifying Alina Habba from her position as acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.
The decision stems from a motion from Julien Giraud Jr., a New Jersey man who faced drug trafficking and firearm charges that predated Habba\u2019s appointment.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
In an overnight Truth Social post, Trump pointed to a law that makes it illegal for someone “with intent to interfere with, impair, or influence the loyalty, morale, or discipline of the military or naval forces of the United States” by urging someone to be insubordinate.
The penalty for violating the law is a fine and\/or a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
“This is right on point,” Trump said in his post<\/a>. “DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE!!!”
The post appeared to be a reference to Trump’s criticism of Democratic lawmakers who <\/a>released<\/a> <\/a>a video urging <\/a>troops <\/a>to refuse illegal orders. The president’s backlash culminated in him accusing them of “seditious behavior” that he said was “punishable by death.” He later walked back <\/a>the comments, saying he was “not threatening death.”
The House and the Senate will be back in session this afternoon after the Thanksgiving holiday. The first votes today are not expected until this evening.
Tomorrow, lawmakers will also be watching the results of a special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, which is open after GOP Rep. Mark Green resigned from Congress this summer. Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn and Republican former state official Matt Van Epps will face off.
Trump again urged Tennessee voters to support the Republican candidate in tomorrow’s special election<\/a> to fill an open congressional seat that was vacated when GOP Rep. Mark Green resigned this year.<\/a>
“GET OUT AND VOTE FOR MATT VAN EPPS, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement \u2014 HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!” he said in a post on Truth Social. <\/a>
Trump pushed for people to support Republican Matt Van Epps, a former state official, over Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn.
The race has attracted outsized attention, <\/a>despite Trump having carried the district by more than 20 points. Democrats have expressed optimism about their prospects, as off-year elections tend to generate less turnout overall and favor candidates who have more energized voters.
Trump is expected to sign congressional bills at 4 p.m., though the White House did not release details about which bills he is signing.
The Oval Office event is the only event on his public schedule today.
Indiana state lawmakers will consider redistricting when they reconvene today, even though the GOP state Senate leader previously said there are not enough votes to redraw the map. <\/a>
Trump has publicly pressured the state’s Republican lawmakers to take up new maps to bolster the GOP’s prospects to keep the House after next year’s midterm elections.
It’s unclear if lawmakers have changed their minds after the pressure campaign. The Indiana push is the latest in a series of redistricting efforts across the country.
Both the House and the Senate have started inquiries into a reported second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September that killed the survivors of an initial strike.
The Defense Department conducted a second strike on a boat the Trump administration says was carrying drugs from Venezuela after the first strike on the boat failed to kill all of its occupants, one U.S. official and a source familiar with the Pentagon\u2019s actions that day told NBC News.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., said that Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are \u201cnot serious people\u201d in response to their comments about a video Kelly and several fellow Democrats made earlier this month urging military and intelligence personnel to \u201crefuse illegal orders.\u201d
\u201cThis president thinks he can bully and intimidate people, and he is not going to, he\u2019s not going to stop me from speaking out and holding him accountable for the things that he does that are wrong and unlawful,\u201d Kelly told NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Trump<\/a>\u00a0says there\u2019s a \u201cgood chance\u201d for a deal, but his bid for peace now heads to\u00a0the Kremlin<\/a>\u00a0and faces more work with Kyiv after what the United States described as \u201cvery productive\u201d talks.
Special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected in the Russian capital to discuss changes that Kyiv and its allies have secured to the U.S. peace plan. Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled last week that\u00a0he was ready to have a \u201cserious\u201d conversation<\/a>, but has shown little sign of stepping away from his hard-line demands that formed the basis of the\u00a0original 28-point proposal backed by Trump<\/a>.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
NBC News<\/p>\n

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