Having stunned the media with his Monday night announcement before members of Congress during a private reception that Trump only lost the popular vote due to vote fraud, the president refused to back down the next day, when on Tuesday the White House said Trump stands by his belief that millions of people voted illegally in the U.S. election.
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A new study conducted by Lee Epstein of Washington University and Eric Posner of Kirkland & Ellis analyzed nearly 100 years worth of Supreme Court decisions and found that President Obama had, by far, the worst "win rate" of any President in their data set, going back to FDR, and perhaps the worst since Zachary Taylor held the White House in 1850. With a win rate of just 50.5%, Obama fell well short of previous presidents in modern history that won nearly two-thirds of their cases.
On Wednesday at around 1pm CET, the Italian Constitutional Court will unveil its ruling on changes in Italy's electoral law, or Italicum, which was approved during Matteo Renzi’s tenure and changed the way the lower house is elected. The court began hearing challenges Tuesday to the law, the outcome of which could help determine when new elections are held. The 2015 law under review governs elections for the lower, 630-seat Chamber of Deputies. Among other things it assigns a bonus to the majority party if it reaches a 40 percent threshold.