#national-guard-deployment

#national-guard-deployment

They want the Guard to come in. Or, they don't care who comes in. They just wanna be safe. And they really don't care. There was one woman, she was great today. She said. You know what? I don't care if it's the National Guard, the Army, the Marines, the Air Force, I don't care who comes in, as long as we're safe. And that's the way most of the public feels.

Illinois state Attorney General Kwame Raoul accused President Donald Trump of using US troops "to punish his political enemies."

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Calling the president's action a "breathtaking abuse of power," Newsom said in a statement that 300 California National Guard personnel were being deployed to Portland, Ore., a city the president has called "war-ravaged." "They are on their way there now," Newsom said of the National Guard. "This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power." Trump's move came a day after a federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked the federalization of Oregon's National Guard.

This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law, Judge Immergut wrote in a blistering ruling which rejected the Trump administration's claims of a War ravaged Portland. She added that that the Trump administration's arguments in the case risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power to the detriment of this nation. Further, the judge added, this country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs.

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Calling a move by President Donald Trump to deploy National Guard soldiers to the city of Portland, Oregon, completely "unlawful," state and city officials on Sunday filed a lawsuit to block the effort as they accused the Trump White House of overstepping its authority. The 41-page federal lawsuit challenging the "unlawful deployment" order was filed in the US District Court of Oregon and names Trump as well as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

When President Donald Trump describes his plans to deploy the National Guard to Memphis as a "replica" of what he's done with federal troops in Washington, D.C., he's attempting to make two points: first, that it's appropriate for him to deploy the military in American cities at all, and second, that doing so effectively reduces crime in cities that just happen to be run and disproportionately populated by his perceived political foes.

Donald Trump went out to dinner Tuesday night in Washington. It was the first time he had done so since his return to the White House last January and one of the rare occasions he has gone out since eight years ago, when he first became president of the United States and often went to Trump Tower, the hotel he owned in the city and sold in 2022.

Thousands of protesters marched across Washington, D.C., on Saturday in one of the largest demonstrations against President Donald Trump's federal takeover of policing in the nation's capital. Behind a bright red banner reading END THE D.C. OCCUPATION in English and Spanish, protesters marched over two miles from Meridian Hill Park to Freedom Plaza near the White House to rail against the fourth week of National Guard troops and federal agents patrolling D.C.'s streets.

They've gone out of their way to make violent crime much, much worse in Chicago, Walsh said of Johnson and other Democratic leaders. This is a deliberate effort that they've embarked on. Now it's true that in our federal system, states are not required to assist the federal government in carrying out certain policy objectives, but it's also true that states and local government cannot actively interfere with the federal government's decision to enforce the law. That is not states' rights. That is treason.

When did we become a country where it's okay for the U.S. president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, Pritzker said in a press conference. Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity that we treat this as normal?

TRUMP: Well, it was a radical left judge; but very importantly, what did you not tell me in that question or statement that you made pretty much of a statement, I think. GARRISON: Well, I was asking for your response. TRUMP: No, no, you didn't say what the judge said, though. The judge said, But you can leave the 300 people that you already have in place. They can continue to be in place. That's all we need.

The employee, Elizabeth Baxter, was a paralegal at the department's environmental defense section, according to a memo to her published by the New York Post, which first reported Friday's dismissal. Based on your inappropriate conduct towards National Guard service members, your employment with the Department of Justice is hereby terminated, and you are removed from federal service effective immediately, Bondi wrote in the memo.

When National Guard troops were deployed here earlier this month, President Donald Trump promised that they would fight crime and make the streets safe again. But in neighborhoods like Columbia Heights, the takeover has created a real sense of terror for immigrants, who say they feel like they are being racially targeted and living in a dystopian version of the city they love.

Amid the shock and awe of occupation by armed National Guard troops with the mission of policing a city experiencing a 30-year low in violent crime, it's been easy to overlook just how bloated and extravagant Donald Trump's siege of Washington, DC, is proving to be. With 2,100 National Guard personnel now roaming the streets looking to hound detained residents into inflated federal charges to make Trump's MAGA putsch a more effective exercise in propaganda of the deed,

Helloooooooo Trash Pandas! Welcome back to the Trash Report. I'm your girl Elinor Jones, fresh off a weeks-long mental health break "sabbatical." This summer has been fun, but it's been busy and I was fresh out of jokes to make and fucks to give, so I needed to rest. I've also been oddly tuned out of the news, because it's just so very bad... but if pigs can cool themselves down by rolling around in slop, then so can we.