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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump can't use National Guard, military in California to enforce laws, Judge Breyer rules … A federal judge on Tuesday barred President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard and other military troops in California to execute law-enforcement actions there, including making arrests, searching locations, and crowd control.
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Devan Cole / CNN:
Judge says Trump administration's use of US military in Los Angeles violated federal law  —  A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated federal law by using the US military to help carry out law enforcement activities in and around Los Angeles this summer.
Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
Federal Judge Rules Trump Willfully Broke the Law With His LA Troop Deployment
Politico:
Judge rules Trump can't act as national police chief
ABC News:
Appeals court allows Trump to gut $16B in climate grants
Reuters:
US judge blocks Trump administration's use of troops in California
Jordan Fischer / WUSA:
Grand jury refuses charges against woman accused of threatening President Trump, attorney says  —  Nathalie Rose Jones, 49, of New York, was arrested in August for allegedly making repeated threats toward President Donald Trump online. … WASHINGTON — A grand jury has refused charges …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
D.C. grand jury declines to indict another defendant amid Trump's crime crackdown  —  Grand juries have declined to indict at least six separate times in recent weeks as part of President Donald Trump's federal policing in Washington.  —  WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury in Washington declined …
Farrah Tomazin / The Daily Beast:   Major New Blow to Pirro Over Woman in Alleged Trump Murder Threat
Michael Scherer / The Atlantic:
The Anti-Trump Strategy That's Actually Working  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  Days after Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to put an end to the Justice Department's revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, captains of the legal resistance gathered by Zoom.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
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Politico:
The latest on Epstein, Trump's crime bill and shutdown talks
Politico:
House members ready action on Epstein files
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Is Backing Trump's Power Grab  —  This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”  You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYT Audio app, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Associated Press:
Trump says he will order federal intervention in Chicago and Baltimore despite local opposition  —  President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to Chicago and Baltimore, despite local officials in both places opposing such moves.
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
‘Do Something Radical!’ Joe Scarborough Calls on JB Pritzker to ‘Partner Up’ With Trump After Deadly Weekend in Chicago
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Threat to Occupy Cities Gets Scarier in Vile Fox Hit  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 2 episode of the  —  Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.
Discussion: ABC News
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Republicans fret about inflation's impact on 2026 midterms
Discussion: Raw Story, NewsMax.com and The Hill
Hilary Burns / The Boston Globe:
A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler's perspective.  —  The cornerstone of the Trump administration's justification for cracking down on Harvard University is that the Ivy League school has allegedly allowed antisemitism to fester on campus.
Discussion: The Forward and New Republic
Graham Linehan / The Glinner Update:
I just got arrested again  —  I arrived back in London to discover the UK is still a police state run by trans activists  —  Something odd happened before I even boarded the flight in Arizona.  When I handed over my passport at the gate, the official told me I didn't have a seat and had to be re-ticketed.
Associated Press:
Trump announces that Space Command is moving from Colorado to Alabama  —  President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado.  The long-expected decision from Trump caps …
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Trump announces Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama
Bloomberg:
Trump Says Military Hit Boat Carrying Drugs from Venezuela  —  President Donald Trump said the US military targeted a boat carrying drugs from Venezuela, touting the administration's success after deploying naval vessels to the Caribbean as part of a push to stop narco-trafficking.
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Aaron Glantz / The Guardian:
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice  —  Legal experts say charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II mark an escalation in the Trump administration's crackdown on first amendment rights  —  The arrest of a US army veteran …
Washington Post:
Bowser welcomes federal law enforcement presence indefinitely  —  Bowser issued an executive order Tuesday requiring local coordination with federal law enforcement “to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District.”  The order gives no expiration date.
Discussion: The Daily Signal and WTTG-TV
Konstantin Toropin / Associated Press:
Pentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.
CNN:
Exclusive: Justice Amy Coney Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade and reveals Supreme Court dynamics in new book  —  Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a new memoir defends her vote reversing a half century of national abortion rights, declaring that Roe v. Wade usurped the will of the American people and “came at a cost.”
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Death of Trump  —  What would happen to MAGA?  And America?  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Koba  —  Last week Sarah, Sonny, and I sat down for a book movie club discussion about The Death of Stalin.  (You can watch it here.)  By total coincidence, the show dropped after a 36-hour period …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
MAGA Thug Kristi Noem's Hateful Attack on CBS Unmasks a Big Trump Scam  —  If you need more evidence that there's zero percentage in trying to appease or bargain with authoritarians, check out what happened this weekend when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attacked CBS News …
James Fontanella-Khan / Financial Times:
US sliding towards 1930s-style autocracy, warns Ray Dalio  —  Billionaire hedge fund boss says other investors are too scared of Trump to speak out  —  Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump's America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics …
Joe Perticone / The Bulwark:
Mike Lee, Slop Addict  —  Based Labor Day Weekend  —  Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) spent the Labor Day holiday weekend doing what he knows best: posting.  An analysis of Lee's activity over the three-day break shows that he posted his own content, reposted other accounts, or in some cases reposted himself more than 70 times.
The Guardian:
Trump team's contentious climate report ‘makes a mockery of science’, experts say  —  Over 85 top climate specialists lambasted administration's review, calling it a ‘shoddy mess’ that downplays risks  —  A group of the US's leading climate scientists have compiled a withering review …
Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Donald Trump To Make Televised Announcement at White House: What to Know  —  President Donald Trump is scheduled to make an unspecified announcement on Tuesday afternoon following days of rumors about his health.  —  The president will make “an announcement” from the Oval Office at 2 p.m. ET …
 
 
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Luke Barr / ABC News:
Secret Service faces shortage of counter snipers, IG reports
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Delete, Delete, Delete: How FCC Republicans are killing rules faster than ever
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Johnson says shutdown ball is in Democrats ‘corner’
Discussion: The Guardian and Raw Story
Robert F. Kennedy Jr / Wall Street Journal:
We're Restoring Public Trust in the CDC
Discussion: The Hill, Washington Examiner and MSNBC
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