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10:50 AM ET, November 8, 2025

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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.
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Cindy Hernandez / Chicago Sun Times:
Fourteen suburban moms arrested in sit-in protest outside Broadview ICE facility
Discussion: Block Club Chicago
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
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Democrats name their price on ending government shutdown
Discussion: IJR and Wall Street Journal
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Democrats consider prolonging the shutdown as Republicans prepare new bills without health care fix
Discussion: Politico and Roll Call
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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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.
Discussion: The Guardian and OPB
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Anna Griffin / New York Times:
Judge Blocks National Guard From Portland, Ore., Permanently  —  With her temporary block expiring, Judge Karin Immergut said the Trump administration had failed to prove that protesters against the federal immigration crackdown were hampering President Trump's policies.
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.
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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.
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
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Lawfare
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
Discussion: CBS News and America Magazine
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 …
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 …
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.
Charlotte Higgins / The Guardian:
Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’  —  Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center  —  The Washington National Opera (WNO) is considering moving out of the Kennedy Center …
Discussion: New York Times
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
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
The voices of SNAP  —  Recipients have become political pawns.  They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like. … Stephanie boarded a city bus Monday morning to make the 90 minute trek from one end of Mesa, Arizona to the other.
 
 
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
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Riya Misra / Politico:
‘We are at risk’: Governors, local officials call for shutdown end
NBC News:
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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
Discussion: NOTUS
Washington Post:
In MAGA stronghold, fury over SNAP but little blame for Trump in shutdown
 Earlier Items: 
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail
Discussion: Disaster Girl
Martina Di Licosa / Forbes:
Supermarket Billionaire Threatens To Cut Workforce, Move To Florida After Mamdani's Win
Wall Street Journal:
Flight Cancellations Could Rise to 20% if Government Shutdown Continues
Discussion: Reuters
M. Gessen / New York Times:
The Ruling About Passports Isn't About ID. It's About Social Control.
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.
Politico:
Trump directs DOJ to investigate meatpackers amid beef price pressure
Discussion: CNN
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
ICE Has Created a ‘Ghost Town’ in the Heart of Chicago
Anna Bower / Lawfare:
More Trouble for the Comey Indictment?