内容摘要：But Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., said after an hourlong meeting with the speaker and staff that they were “still far from a deal.”

But Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., said after an hourlong meeting with the speaker and staff that they were “still far from a deal.”

The group sees the measure as attacking the courts’ independence.The group raised almost $11 million for its effort to defeat the anti-abortion ballot question in 2022, and nearly $1.5 million came from the Sixteen Thirty Fund, campaign finance reports show.

The new Kansas law passed the Republican-controlled Legislature with more than the two-thirds majority required to override a veto. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said the measure “goes too far,” but let it become law without her signature.Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican named as a defendant in the lawsuit along with state ethics commission members, noted the law’s bipartisan support.“Republicans and Democrats agree that foreign corporations and foreign citizens must not be allowed to influence the outcome when Kansas constitutional amendments are placed before voters,” Kobach said in a statement Monday. “It is a core principle of self-government.”

In allowing Ohio to enforce its law, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said concerns about foreign influence in elections “date back to the Founding,” citing first President George Washington’s Farewell Address.“And Ohioans and their representatives have a compelling interest in regulating such influence,” the appeals court majority said.

But the Kansas law’s restrictions fall on advocacy groups in prohibiting them from accepting federal funds. Also, groups must avoid donations even from U.S. citizens if they’ve received enough foreign funds — restricting their free speech rights under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as well, the lawsuit argues.

“There is no reason why a donor should have to provide detailed and confidential information about its own funding sources,” the lawsuit said.Trzaskowski, who ran and barely lost to Duda in 2020, was long considered this year’s front-runner. After Sunday’s vote he can’t be sure.

Nawrocki declared himself “full of energy and enthusiasm on the way to victory” in a statement to the media, adding that “probably all of Poland saw that Rafał Trzaskowski is a candidate who can’t cope.”Meanwhile, Trzaskowski vowed to fight until the end. “I will try to convince young people and all those who voted differently that it is worth voting for a normal Poland, not a radical Poland,” Trzaskowski told reporters in Karzysko-Kamienna.

The two men’s political fates rest to a large extent with voters who chose other candidates in the first round, and how they will vote can be difficult to predict. Experts say there isn’t an automatic transfer of votes from certain candidates to others; some who don’t get their chosen candidate might not vote at all.Still, Trzaskowski has a lot to worry about.