The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, a church-state case testing religious groups’ ability to participate in Colorado’s state-funded universal preschool program.

Two Catholic parishes and two Catholic families are suing the state over whether religious preschools should be exempt from nondiscrimination rules banning them from bias in admissions based on religious affiliation, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, gender identity or a range of other factors.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the war with Iran played a role in the Democratic sweep in the midterm elections.

“Iran was a piece of it,” Trump said in a telephone interview with The Wall Street Journal, pointing to the rise in oil prices as a key issue. Trump added, “I did the right thing. I would have done it again.”

Fueled by voter frustration over the economy, high gas prices, ongoing military operations against Iran and the Trump administration’s corruption and overreach, Democrats won a landslide in Tuesday’s midterm elections, winning back both the House and Senate, and electing lawmakers from some of the reddest states and districts on the political map.

The Democratic rout was thorough. Democrats are expected to win at least eight Senate seats, and over 250 House seats — beyond party leaders’ wildest expectations. They won a Senate seat in Kansas for the first time since before FDR’s New Deal. They ended the GOP’s decades-long winning streak in Texas, electing Sen.-elect James Talarico (D-TX) and ousting longtime GOP Gov. Greg Abbott. Democrats won in ruby-red South Carolina, with Democrat Annie Andrews defeating Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC), the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). And after several election cycles in which she won tough races against the odds, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) finally fell to Democrat Troy Jackson.

Abdul El-Sayed will become the next senator from Michigan, winning in spite of a campaign that divided the Democratic Party and leaned heavily into left-wing positions. El-Sayed will become one of the most outspokenly anti-Israel members of the Senate in recent memory, bringing to Washington rhetoric and affiliations that have deeply alarmed members of the Jewish community in Michigan and nationwide.

On the campaign trail, El-Sayed made comments that Jewish community members saw as excusing or justifying a Hezbollah-inspired terrorist attack on a synagogue and preschool and repeatedly refused to recognize Israel’s right to exist.

Anti-Defamation League chapters across the country issued rare statements condemning newly elected Democratic House members, raising concerns about their approaches to antisemitism.

The representatives-elect condemned by local ADL branches include New York’s Claire Valdez, Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier; New Jersey’s Adam Hamawy; Illinois’ Daniel Biss; Pennsylvania’s Chris Rabb; and Colorado’s Melat Kiros. The statements directly calling out new lawmakers mark an unusually confrontational and political posture for the anti-hate group.

Two centrist, pro-Israel Democrats representing swing House seats on Long Island rode to easy victories on Tuesday, as a suburban Republican in upstate New York with close ties to the Jewish community lost his seat.

Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Laura Gillen (D-NY) coasted to victory in suburban Nassau County, where a fifth of households have at least one Jewish member. The pair spent much of the cycle distancing themselves from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani while stressing their support for the Jewish state and for measures to enhance safety for Jewish institutions. 

Coming off the socialist wave in the Democratic primaries in June, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s candidates for Congress and the state Legislature coasted to victory on election night.

Former City Comptroller Brad Lander, state Assemblymember Claire Valdez and grad student Darializa Avila Chevalier easily carried their heavily Democratic seats after Mamdani supported them for the party’s nomination four months ago. Lander, who will represent a largely upper-middle-class district spanning Brooklyn and Manhattan with a large Jewish population, defeated Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) earlier this year after relentlessly hammering the incumbent for his support for U.S. military aid to Israel and relationship with AIPAC.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul — along with fellow Democrats Attorney General Letitia James and State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli — easily repelled her Republican challenger, a dominant performance that raises questions about her future relationship with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Hochul, a moderate Democrat who has shown strong support for Israel, easily overwhelmed her Republican opponent, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, with the Associated Press calling the race moments after polls closed at 9 p.m. Blakeman, who is Jewish, sought to win moderate Democratic and independent votes by harping on the sitting governor’s close relationship with the democratic socialist Mamdani.