A California couple in an escalating fight with their surrogate over a newborn with a life-threatening heart defect have testified in a Texas court. They said Tuesday that the child’s condition has worsened and they are anguished by attempts to deny them parental rights because they previously wanted an abortion. Nausheen Gilkar called surrogate McKenna West “unstable” and lamented that “she’s trying to take him from us.” West is attempting to take conservatorship of the child. She says the couple pressured her to end the pregnancy after learning of the diagnosis. The hearing offered the fullest public airing to date of a deepening and high-profile dispute over surrogacy and abortion.

The Supreme Court's decision clearing one obstacle to the enactment of President Donald Trump's order on mail voting may not mean the order ultimately takes effect for November's elections. But it is increasing the risk of chaos for the midterms. That's because the decision will kick off a compressed legal fight over the constitutionality of the order. It would require states to follow uniform standards in formatting mail ballots and share information about who sends them with the federal government or those ballots wouldn't get delivered. Election officials say there's no way to implement that before November if courts don't stop it.

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Justice Department attorneys argued that if President Donald Trump's name does not appear somewhere on the Kennedy Center, then the money from…