A federal judge late Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon at all, after a legal whirlwind that began hours earlier when the president mobilized California troops for Portland after the same judge blocked him from using Oregon’s National Guard the day before.
President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of Washington, D.C. is a bright red flag for American democracy and the rule of law. If the American people accept that Trump’s show of federal force is about crime—and that crime justifies the militarization of D.C. or any other city—our country could be well on its way to becoming a police state.
President Trump on Tuesday told a gathering of military leaders they should use American cities as “training grounds” and described a federal crackdown on crime in major cities as “a war from within.”
President Trump announced Wednesday that he will designate antifa as a terrorist organization, and is recommending investigations into people who allegedly fund it.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s use of National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles earlier this year violated a federal law that prohibits using the military as a domestic police force.
City and state leaders pilloried the Trump administration for planning to home in on Chicago — the third most populous city in the United States — as the next target for a military deployment in the name of addressing crime, immigration and homelessness, calling the idea unlawful and unnecessary.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Trump administration Monday for deploying hundreds of National Guard members to Los Angeles over the weekend.
President Donald Trump’s administration has authorized 2,000 additional National Guardsmen to deploy to Los Angeles as riots continue across the city, adding to the more than 2,000 already in the city.
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Wednesday that he plans to send up to 30,000 illegal immigrants to detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of his campaign to mass-deport migrants who have committed crimes.
