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Charles Thrush / Block Club Chicago:
Feds Tell Faith Leaders ‘No More Prayer’ Outside Broadview Facility  —  BROADVIEW - Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be “no more prayer” in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.
Steve Vladeck / One First:
190. SNAP WTF?  —  Welcome back to “One First,” a (more-than) weekly newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike.  I'm grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you'll consider sharing some of what we're doing with your networks:
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CNN:
Trump asks Supreme Court to step into fight over food stamp benefits
Discussion: Mediaite
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block order on releasing SNAP benefits
Discussion: Associated Press
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
November 7, 2025  —  The repercussions from Tuesday's vote, in which Democratic candidates were victorious across the country, continue to echo.  —  Since Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump has tried to reinforce the idea that he is, in fact, in control of the country, no matter what voters say.
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NBC News:
Democrats make a new offer to end the shutdown, but Republicans aren't buying it
Discussion: Axios and Roll Call
Julianna Bragg / Axios:   Trump says GOP would never lose an election again if filibuster is eliminated
Theodoric Meyer / Washington Post:
Trump wants to abolish the filibuster. GOP senators aren't on board.
Discussion: New York Times
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Senate Democrats propose 1-year Obamacare subsidies punt in new shutdown offer
Discussion: CNBC, New York Times and NOTUS
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Democrats consider prolonging the shutdown as Republicans prepare new bills without health care fix
Discussion: Politico
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Democrats name their price on ending government shutdown
Discussion: IJR
Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy  —  The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big companies and the ultrarich.  —  With little public scrutiny …
NBC News:
Judge permanently bars Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Portland in response to immigration protests  —  Oregon officials have been embroiled in a legal battle with the administration since late September, when the Trump administration mobilized hundreds of troops.
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Anna Griffin / New York Times:   Judge Blocks National Guard From Portland, Ore., Permanently
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do  —  I have great news for President Trump!  —  He has expressed such outrage at attacks on Christians in Nigeria that he has threatened military intervention there, and the Pentagon has obligingly prepared plans for attack.
New York Times:
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison  —  They said they were shackled, beaten, shot with rubber bullets and tear gassed until they passed out.  —  They said they were punished in a dark room called the island, where they were trampled, kicked and forced to kneel for hours.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Mafia Presidency  —  Trump is saying, essentially, If you don't want to get hurt, you'll do what I say.  —  The Sunday before the New York City mayoral race, President Donald Trump told New Yorkers he might withhold federal funding if Zohran Mamdani won.
Barbara McQuade / MSNBC:
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro wasted our money pursuing sandwich thrower  —  To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.”  That allegation was laughable.  —  Among a U.S. attorney's most significant responsibilities …
NBC News:
Education Department's out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown are unconstitutional, judge rules  —  The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed after the Trump administration altered employees' email messages to add partisan language about the government shutdown without their consent.
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Juan Perez Jr / Politico:   Judge orders Education Department to halt ‘partisan’ employee email messages
Tina Sfondeles / Chicago Sun Times:
Indian IDOT employee stopped by ICE agents, questioned if he was ‘aware’ of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani  —  Gov. JB Pritzker is speaking out about the incident, which happened Friday morning, calling it another example of President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem …
New York Times:
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler  —  The child was later reunited with her grandmother, but the episode alarmed immigrant rights groups.  The father, a U.S. citizen, faces a gun possession charge.  —  At first, the encounter seemed typical of the kinds …
Telegraph:
Trump goes to war with ‘fake news’ BBC  —  White House attacks ‘Leftist propaganda machine’ over biased doctoring of president's speech  —  Donald Trump's White House has accused the BBC of “purposeful dishonesty” amid a row over bias at the broadcaster.  —  It launched its attack …
Discussion: The Guardian and GB News
Andrew Lapin / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech  —  A sudden change in leadership at Indiana University's Jewish studies program has erupted into a bitter internal feud, pitting a new interim director against faculty and students …
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Cornell to pay $60M to settle Trump administration probes … In April, Cornell said it received more than 75 stop work orders from the Department of Defense related to research on national defense, cybersecurity and health. … “The decades-long research partnership between Cornell …
Josh Moody / Inside Higher Ed:
Congress Accuses GMU President of Lying About DEI Efforts  —  The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee accused George Mason University's president of lying about DEI practices and likely violating civil rights laws.  He has denied the claims.  —  House Republicans have accused George Mason …
Discussion: Washington Post
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Todd Blanche on defending Trump policies: 'It's a war, man'  —  The Justice Department's No. 2 official, Todd Blanche, let loose Friday, railing against judges blocking administration policies and denying that prosecutions of President Donald Trump's enemies constitute weaponization of the justice system.
NBC News:
‘Mega detention centers’: ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants  —  The Trump administration is exploring a plan to buy warehouses designed for companies like Amazon, sources said, which would drastically increase the Trump administration's capacity for detaining immigrants.
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Jackie Llanos / NOTUS:   ICE Detention and Surveillance Translate Into Hundreds of Millions for Companies
Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 245. 11/7/25  —  ... Trump FINALLY got confronted today by the FACT that the Walmart Thanksgiving dinner he keeps citing to prove prices are down is only because his comparison from last year contained FEWER items, of less quantity, with more inexpensive brands.
 
 
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Washington Post:
U.S. steps up presence in Gaza to support fragile ceasefire
Discussion: LewRockwell and Quillette
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Did Trump's Supreme Court Tariffs Brief Include a Strategic Blunder?
Riya Misra / Politico:
‘We are at risk’: Governors, local officials call for shutdown end
NBC News:
National Mall trust avoids most lawmaker questions about White House ballroom project
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Iran plotted to assassinate Israel's ambassador to Mexico, U.S. officials say
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
This North Carolina Democrat can't win her district. So she's running as a Republican.
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Dems' resistance stymies DOJ in Stephen Miller doxxing case
Washington Post:
How a backlash to Trump fueled Democratic gains with Latino voters
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
In MAGA stronghold, fury over SNAP but little blame for Trump in shutdown
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail
Discussion: Disaster Girl
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
The voices of SNAP  —  Recipients have become political pawns.  They explained …
Martina Di Licosa / Forbes:
Supermarket Billionaire Threatens To Cut Workforce, Move To Florida After Mamdani's Win
Charlotte Higgins / The Guardian:
Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’
Discussion: New York Times
M. Gessen / New York Times:
The Ruling About Passports Isn't About ID. It's About Social Control.
New York Times:
The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
ICE Has Created a ‘Ghost Town’ in the Heart of Chicago
 

 
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Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
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