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L.A. Ruling Complicates Trump’s Threats to Send Troops to More Cities – The New York Times
news analysis L.A. Ruling Complicates Trump’s Threats to Send Troops to More Cities As Democratic cities brace for possible military deployments, Democratic governors see in a lower-court ruling the potential for legal protections. Listen to this article · 7:42 min Learn more Members of the California National Guard outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building…
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Data shows crime is down in US cities but Trump suggests more Guard deployments – AP News
U.S. News Trump suggests more US cities need National Guard but crime stats tell a different story 1 of 4 | President Donald Trump has threatened to dispatch the National Guard to Chicago and other big cities. But data shows most U.S. violent crime has been in a steady decline in recent years (AP video: Mike…
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Letters from an American – August 25, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, August 25, 2025, By Heather Cox Richardson This morning, President Donald J. Trump talked to reporters as he signed several executive orders in the Oval Office. Trump sat behind the Resolute Desk as he has been doing lately, seeming to put its bulk between him and the reporters. Also as he…
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Trump Is Taking Over D.C. Police Because He’s a Racist Thug | The New Republic
Melissa Gira Grant/ August 12, 2025 Trump Is Taking Over D.C. Police Because He’s a Racist Thug Trump doesn’t care about “crime.” He cares about the right white people being in charge. Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu/Getty Images Flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi, Donald Trump delivers a speech during a…
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Opinion | How the Military Became Another Instrument of Trump’s Power – The New York Times
Opinion Guest Essay How the Military Became Another Instrument of Trump’s Power Aug. 13, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET, Listen to this article · 7:30 min Learn more By Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson Mr. Simon held senior positions in the State Department and at the National Security Council. Mr. Stevenson served on the National Security Council…
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Don’t federalize and militarize DC’s local police – GovTrack.us
News From Us The White House Don’t federalize and militarize DC’s local police Aug. 11, 2025 · by Joshua Tauberer When I walk my toddler home from daycare every evening, it is safe. That’s here in Washington, D.C., where I have lived since I moved to work on government accountability 15 years ago. For perhaps…
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Civil Discourse – When The President Becomes The Police – Joyce Vance
By Joyce Vance, Aug 11, 2025 The Posse Comitatus Act reserves the police power to the states, prohibiting the federal government from using the military for domestic law enforcement absent truly compelling circumstances. This principle can be extended to the National Guard when a president federalizes a state’s troops. That’s the very issue that Judge…
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Letters from an American – August 11, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson Aug 11, 2025 President Donald J. Trump’s big announcement today at his press conference—to which he showed up late—was that he is assuming control over the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department and deploying more than 100 agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and about 40 from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
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On Politics: Mayor Trump – The New York Times
Continue/Read Original Article Here: On Politics: Mayor Trump
