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The Senate failed to advance a sweeping voting rights bill Tuesday, stalling the Democratic legislation aimed at countering recent restrictive state measures pursued in Republican-led states.

Meanwhile: Eric Adams, the Brooklyn Borough president and former police captain, is in the lead Wednesday to be New York City's next mayor, but even though voting is done, the race is far from over.

Plus, the Supreme Court released more opinions today. More on that below.

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TheSupreme Court on Wednesday sided with a former cheerleaderwho excoriated her school in a profanity-laced post on social media, holding that the punishment of her off-campus speech violated the First Amendment.

But the 8-1 ruling left unresolved the broader question of when schools may regulate off-campus speech, and when such punishment isoff limits.

When Brandi Levy, who was 14 at the time, failed to make the varsity cheer team in 2017, she and one of her friends posted a vulgar message onSnapchat, exhortingher followers to "F schoolf softballf cheerf everything." The message made it back to her coaches, whocut her from the junior varsity squad.After appealing to school authorities, her parents sued the school district in federal court.

Several of thejustices said during oral arguments that they were wary of setting a hard-and-fast standard for when schools could regulate off-campus speech, and that hesitancy was reflected in the majority opinion.

"It might be tempting to dismiss (the student's)words as unworthy of the robust First Amendment protections discussed herein,"Associate Justice Stephen Breyerwrote for the majority. "But sometimes it is necessary to protect the superfluous in order to preserve the necessary."

That's not all from SCOTUS:The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to give police theautomatic power to enter homeswithout a warrant when they're in "hot pursuit" for a misdemeanor crime, ruling against an officer who charged a man with DUI after slipping underhis garage door.

President Joe Biden is launching a crime prevention strategy Wednesday in a push to takeon soaringgun violence as Republicans blame the rise in crime on calls from progressive activists to cut police funding.

In a White House speech Wednesday, Bidenwill announce a "zero tolerance policy"for rogue gun dealersand steps to stop theillegaltrafficking of firearms, according to senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Biden will also emphasize thatcities and states can use their portions of $350 billion in direct aid from Biden's COVID-19 rescue plan, approved by Congress in March, on public safety efforts including hiring more police officers.

Through the first 172 days of 2021, gun violence killed 9,420 Americans, an average of 55 people a day,according to data collected by the Gun Violence Archive, a research nonprofit. The figures include homicides and accidental gun deaths but not suicides.

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