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The senior aide to former president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to keep him out of prison while he appeals his conviction for refusing to testify before Congress about his involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

The Republican senator, whose State of the Union response drew savage criticism, is not the first novice lawmaker from the South to see her introductory event veer off the rails.

An organization founded to support Republican moderates is taking aim at the Virginia lawmaker and backing a different hard-right candidate who aligns with its new focus: purging Congress of G.O.P. rebels.

The justices sided with the government in a case focused on who is eligible for shorter prison sentences under the bipartisan First Step Act passed in 2018.

An L.G.B.T.Q. student group had asked the justices to intercede, saying the performance was protected by the First Amendment.

The children of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who championed liberal causes and women’s rights, said the choice of recipients this year was an “affront” to the memory of their mother.