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8:50 AM ET, October 6, 2025

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Politico:
Judge blocks Trump's National Guard deployment in Portland for second time … A federal judge has, for the second time in two days, blocked President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops into Oregon, ruling that the administration appeared to defy her Saturday order that Trump lacked …
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Axios:
California, Oregon suing Trump in bid to stop troop deployment to Portland  —  California and Oregon are suing the Trump administration in an effort to stop him sending 200 National Guard troops from the Golden State to Portland, per an amended lawsuit filed Sunday.
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Politico:
Newsom joins Oregon's suit after Trump sends California National Guard to Oregon … California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Sunday night that Oregon and California officials are joining forces to fight Trump's latest move.  —  “This is a very staggering end-run around the court's order,” Bonta said of Trump's action.
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon  —  A federal judge Sunday night issued a new broader order barring any National Guard members from being relocated from any state for federal service in the state of Oregon.
Discussion: CNN and Mediaite
New York Times:
Judge Again Blocks Guard Deployment as Trump Expands His Targets  —  A federal judge in Oregon accused the administration of circumventing her order, even as the president turned to Texas for troops aimed at Chicago and other cities.  —  A federal judge on Sunday night blocked …
Politico:   Shock and ORE  —  With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine and Ali Bianco  —  Good Monday morning.
Governor of California:
Governor Newsom to sue, urges Americans to speak out on Trump's “breathtaking abuse of power” with cross-state Guard deployment
Provided / Post and Courier:
SLED investigating fire at SC circuit judge's Edisto home, 3 injured  —  EDISTO ISLAND — The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating a fire that started the morning of Oct. 4 at Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein's Edisto Beach home off Planters Retreat in the Jeremy Cay Community.
Discussion: FITSNews
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Lauren Acton-Taylor / Daily Mail:
Top judge's $1.5M beachfront home is burned to the ground as her ex-senator husband is rushed to hospital  —  A South Carolina judge's beautiful beachfront home was burned to the ground on Saturday morning, sending three of her family members to hospital.  —  Police have launched an investigation …
Miranda Jeyaretnam / Time:
House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze  —  The home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein was set on fire after she had reportedly received death threats.  —  State law enforcement is investigating the house fire on Edisto Beach which began …
Melissa Koenig / Daily Mail:
South Carolina judge's $1.5M beachfront home burned to the ground in possible arson attack just weeks after brutal decision against Trump administration
Discussion: The Independent
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Shutdown threatens to drag on for days as positions harden … Democrats are insisting they will not vote to reopen the government without some kind of an agreement around soon-to-expire health insurance subsidies impacting more than 20 million Americans, and party leaders have been emboldened …
Discussion: NewsNation and CBS News
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Politico:
Democrats rush to find a counterpunch to Trump's midterms crime messaging
Discussion: The Liberal Patriot
New York Times:
Supreme Court Returns to Face Trump Tests of Presidential Power  —  As the justices return to the bench Monday, the court will confront a series of cases central to the president's agenda.  —  When the nine justices of the Supreme Court return to their raised mahogany bench each year …
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Emily Bazelon / New York Times:   We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency
Paul Krugman:
State Terror, American Style  —  Over the weekend I talked to a couple of people, people who generally try to keep abreast of the news, about the Chicago apartment raid last Tuesday — and discovered that they hadn't heard about it.  And that's extremely worrying.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens
Discussion: The.Ink and Chicago Sun Times
Max Tani / Semafor:
Washington Post economics columnist moves to The Bulwark  —  The News  —  A high-profile columnist who left The Washington Post amid the paper's ongoing editorial upheaval is joining a growing anti-Trump digital news startup.  —  Former Washington Post opinion columnist Catherine Rampell …
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Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
Will the Democrats Become the Party of Free Trade?  —  Another partisan reversal on trade presents itself.  —  The hard-working staff here at Drezner's World has made no secret of i ts distaste for protectionism — and using the guise of national security to promote protectionism.
Discussion: Politico
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘Very difficult situation’: Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms  —  Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.
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Eileen Guo / MIT Technology Review:
Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline … People over Papers, a crowd-sourcing project that maps sightings of immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built.  It's just the latest ICE-tracking initiative …
Craig DeLuz / The Hill:
Trump's DC takeover is working — in fact, it has already worked  —  President Trump's action this summer asserting federal control of the District of Columbia police force was a bold and necessary step toward confronting the rampant crime that has plagued our nation's capital for years.
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Rep. Wesley Hunt is running for US Senate in Texas, defying GOP leaders to take on Cornyn and Paxton  —  Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, defying Senate GOP leadership and adding a new element to an already contentious primary campaign.
Discussion: NBC News, Washington Post and The Hill
 
 
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