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Federal judge rules Trump illegally deployed national guard troops to Los Angeles

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 June

Temporary restraining order issued by judge said president overstepped authority and to hand over control to state governor

A federal judge ruled on Thursday that Donald Trump illegally deployed the California national guard to suppress protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles and ordered the force to be returned to the control of the state governor, Gavin Newsom.

The order by the US district judge Charles Breyer will not take effect until noon on Friday, but it marked a stinging defeat for the Trump administration that is sure to touch off a pitched legal battle destined for the US supreme court.

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Republicans to Press Hochul, Walz and Pritzker on Immigration in Hearing

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 12 June

Amid unrest in California, Republicans plan to press the governors of other blue states on their immigration policies, including on limiting cooperation with federal enforcement efforts.

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Families arrested in LA Ice raids held in basements with little food or water, lawyers say

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 June

Agents confiscated belongings and rushed deportees to California’s high desert or Texas, saying local facilities had not prepared for influx

LA protests – live updates

As federal agents rushed to arrest immigrants across Los Angeles, they confined detainees – including families with small children – in a stuffy office basement for days without sufficient food and water, according to immigration lawyers.

One family with three children were held inside a Los Angeles -area administrative building for 48 hours after being arrested on Thursday immediately after an immigration court hearing, according to lawyers from the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef), which is providing non-profit legal services in the region.

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As Immigration Protests Grip California, Democrats Enter Risky Political Terrain

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 11 June

Scenes of unrest in Southern California, stoked by President Trump as he tries to deport more immigrants, have left Democratic leaders worried the confrontation elevates a losing issue for the party.

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Trump Wants to Be a Strongman, but He’s Actually a Weak Man

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 11 June

He is still dangerous, though.

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Wildfire Near San Bernardino Mountains Prompts Evacuation Orders

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 11 June

The fire, which was burning near the town of Apple Valley, had exploded to over 4,200 acres since starting on Tuesday afternoon.

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The 2028 Subtext of Newsom’s Speech

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 11 June

The California governor used a nationally televised address to criticize President Trump and to seize a political moment.

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As military is deployed to LA, rightwing media decry protesters as ‘invaders’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 June

From Newsmax to Charlie Kirk, outlets and podcasts are calling for ‘hard actions’, arrests and the Insurrection Act

There were unsavory scenes in Los Angeles over the weekend, as police used tear gas and “less-lethal munitions” on thousands of people gathered to protest the arrest of undocumented people immigrants.

The events playing out on rightwing TV channels and in the conservative podcasting realm were almost as miserable, as excitable media figures decried protesters as “invaders”, called for both the mass arrest of elected officials and the invocation of a two-century old laws and used the chaos to push racist conspiracy theories.

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Protesters have a right to wear masks – despite Trump’s double standard | Jan-Werner Müller

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 June

Standing by one’s identity makes sense in certain contexts. But there is a host of valid reasons for lawful demonstrators to remain anonymous

Do protesters have a right to hide their faces? Donald Trump , who likes to show and see his own face as often as possible, clearly does not think so. One demand to universities has been that they outlaw masking at demonstrations; in response to protests in California , the US president demanded on social media that anyone wearing a mask be arrested immediately.

Never mind the apparent double standard, as Ice agents refuse to take off face coverings and hide their name tags, defying any accountability; there is a widespread sense that standing by one’s identity is a crucial part of standing up to unjust power. In fact, that intuition is at the core of civil disobedience. But it is not plausible in our present moment; what’s more, there is a long countervailing tradition of validating citizens’ right to anonymity. As recently as the mid-1990s, it was affirmed by none other than the supreme court.