This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, July 7th. I'm Rachel Del Judas.

And I'm Virginia Allen. On the 168th anniversary of Frederick Douglas's famous speech,

what to the slave is the 4th of July delivered in Rochester, New York,

a monument of Douglas was torn down from its base.

Reverend Dean Nelson, Chairman of the Frederick Douglas Foundation, joins the show to discuss

the significance of that speech and the defacement of the Douglas statue.

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Now, on to our top news.

The Electoral College was the center of attention at the Supreme Court in a Monday ruling.

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that states can't keep their representatives in the Electoral College from ignoring

voters wishes when they elect a president. In the majority opinion, Justice

Alana Kagan wrote that the Constitution's texts and the nation's history

will support allowing a state to enforce an electors pledge to support his party's nominee in the state voters choice for president.

The case originated out of Washington State, where three Democratic electors in Washington State voted for former Secretary of State Colin Powell instead of Hillary Clinton, hoping that Republican electors would follow suit.

The state fined them $1,000 each,

prompting a legal challenge from three officials

who argued that the state law restricting their electoral college vote

was unconstitutional, the Hill reported.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is being shut down.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge James Boseburg ordered that the pipeline be put on hold until the Army Corps of Engineers

can conduct an environmental review, a process that will likely take over a year to complete. The $3.8 billion pipeline project has been

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