American Pogrom (#WhatTheyVotedFor)

[Tiassa]

#WhatTheyVotedFor CBP marches past Trump tower in Chicago along the way to arresting people for not looking white enough.​

I think about the people who make excuses for American white supremacists, and perhaps I might ask if they're embarrassed, yet, by the pathetic excuses they made, and the failure of their bullshit prognostication about other issues driving Trump voters, but the appropriate question is to ask if they're happy, yet. After all, this is what they were standing up for:

Dozens of federal agents took individuals into custody during a winding patrol Sunday through downtown Chicago, and a top U.S. Border Patrol official told WBEZ the agents were arresting people based on "how they look."

The agents, clad in military-style fatigues, roamed past some of Chicago's most well-known landmarks on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. The highly visible show of force came just three days after Border Patrol boats carrying armed officers appeared on the Chicago River.

Gregory Bovino, commander at large of the border force, contrasted the people being arrested with a white WBEZ reporter, saying agents consider a person's appearance before taking them into custody.

"You know, there's many different factors that go into something like that," Bovino said. "It would be agent experience, intelligence that indicates there's illegal aliens in a particular place or location.

"Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?" he said to the reporter, a tall, middle-aged man of Anglo descent.

(WBEZ↱)​

There's a question: Are you proud of yourselves?

And no, nobody expects them to answer affirmatively, though it's helpful if they have at least that courage from time to time. Truth of the matter is, if they made a mistake and changed their mind since, they would have said so, by now. And it would be easy enough to see in their words and actions, especially if they never really were in the beginning, and just happened to fall down an unfortunate hole.

But the only reason anybody had to think this sort of thing wouldn't be happening is the amount conservatives have tried to convince people, over the course of years, decades, generations, that they are actually opposed to this sort of governmental behavior. And no, we don't know why the people telling us what you can and can't do according to their religion or investment needs were believable in the context of their steadfast opposition to authoritarianism. Oh, right. They were Christians. And white. Nothing to see, there, apparently, until they're marching down the street arresting you for not being white enough.

And you can't bawl about liberal hyperbole, this time: The white guy in charge of the operation just came right out and said it.

And you can't blame the penguin for this one. No liberal forced you to support white supremacism. If it really was so easy, that hatred was in you the whole time.
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Notes:

Mitchell, Chip, Ashlee Rezin, Kaitlin Washburn, Mary Norkol, and Jon Seidel. "Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on 'how they look'". WBEZ. 29 September 2025. WBEZ.org. 29 September 2025. https://www.wbez.org/immigration/20...ys-people-are-arrested-based-on-how-they-look

 

[Tiassa]

#pogrom | #WhatTheyVotedFor​

Andrew Weinstein↱ observes:

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.​

Collateral damage is supposed to be an unfortunate result, not part of the plan.

And collateralizing children in this way is the sort of thing we should never have to talk about: Law enforcement is supposed to be better than this, full stop.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1974856047933133195

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[Sarkus]

I just pray we don't go through the same in the UK. The Tory leader has "promised" to deport 750,000 undocumented migrants, and with them and Farage's Reform UK party currently vying for most right-wing, and everyone already thinking Labour are useless, it may not be too far away.

 

[TheVat]

Editorial note: One may choose to put scare quotes around the word "promised," but when referring to political leaders they can be considered redundant and may be left off with no attendant semiotic loss.

 

[exchemist]

I just pray we don't go through the same in the UK. The Tory leader has "promised" to deport 750,000 undocumented migrants, and with them and Farage's Reform UK party currently vying for most right-wing, and everyone already thinking Labour are useless, it may not be too far away.

Though when asked where they would be deported to, Badenough had no answer.

 

[Tiassa]

Provocative Provocateurs Provoke

Izzy Gardon↱ forwards news that, "CBS News reports ICE has been making bogus calls to 911 and filing false police reports in Chicago."

Per the attached CBS News report:

CBS NEWS: In your mind, bogus?

THOMAS MILLS: Yes, it's disturbing. It is― it's ridiculous.

CBS NEWS: Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills says this is just one of several questionable 911 calls his police department has received from ICE at this facility, recently.​

People need to recognize, this is real. Think about every right-winger, conservative, libertarian, and conspiracist you've ever known who used the phrase "false flag". It's an overworn term, but consider that between liberals and rightists, nobody believed the alleged texts between Robinson and the catboy; the ramming episode in Chicago was not the first outright lie; the pretenses are simply to create an appearance of extraordinary need. As the Trump administration does that thing conservatives, libertarians, and rightists could all agree was the danger of liberalism, we are at least able to affirm that the danger itself wasn't the problem. For conservatives, the problem was never really the prospect of tyranny, but that the wrong people might achieve it before them.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975060748725629233

 

[Tiassa]

The Ingenuity of Evil (Not Really, But Still)

Read the following paragraphs carefully:

U.S. government lawyers say that detainees at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings, which is a direct contradiction to what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been saying since it opened in July.

Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice made that admission Thursday in a court filing arguing that the detainees at the facility in the Everglades wilderness don't have enough in common to be certified as a class in a lawsuit over whether they're getting proper access to attorneys.

A removal proceeding is a legal process initiated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to determine if someone should be deported from the United States.

The DOJ attorneys wrote that the detainees at the Everglades facility have too many different immigration statuses to be considered a class.

(Schneider↱)​

The complicated part of the explanation is that what DeSantis was saying was long suspected to be bogus, simply for suggesting far too orderly a process for the pace and period. But it was also part of the argument why the outlier facility, the product of fever dreams and machismo, was legal and appropriate.

And now, in order to ward off a class action lawsuit, the Department of Justice has blown that story all to hell.

The Associated Press article is actually kind of particular on this point, despite the uncertainty of the U.S. Attorneys' language:

"The proposed class includes all detainees at Alligator Alcatraz, a facility that houses detainees in all stages of immigration processing — presumably including those who have never been in removal proceedings, those who will be placed into removal proceedings, those who are already subject to final orders of removal, those subject to expedited removal, and those detained for the purpose of facilitation removal from the United States pursuant to a final order of removal," they wrote.​

"Presumably". As in, they couldn't be bothered to actually figure out the answer. Nonetheless:

Since the facility opened, DeSantis has been saying publicly that each detainee has gone through the process of determining that they can't legally be in the United States.

During a July 25 news conference outside the detention center, DeSantis said, "Everybody here is already on a final removal order."

"They have been ordered to be removed from the country," he added.

At a July 29 speech before a conference of the Florida Sheriffs Association, the Republican governor said, "The people that are going to the Alligator Alcatraz are illegally in the country. They've all already been given a final order of removal."

He added, "So, if you have an order to be removed, what is the possible objection to the federal government enforcing that removal order?"​

And, now we know the answer.
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Notes:

Schneider, Mike. "DOJ contradicts DeSantis: Some detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' likely never in removal proceedings". Associated Press. 6 October 2025. APNews.com. 6 October 2025. https://apnews.com/article/florida-...raz-desantis-613c86e73d064f7e732049411dc2c01c

 

[Tiassa]

#priorities | #WhatTheyVotedFor​

Per Wall Street Journal↱:

A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded. A Kansas task force focused on stemming the flow of fentanyl has been redirected. Highway checkpoints near the southwest border—some on roads long identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed.

The shift reflects a broader realignment in federal law enforcement. Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement under President Trump's second-term push to accelerate deportations, according to current and former officials.

The administration has set a goal of removing 3,000 migrants a day who are in the country illegally. To help meet that number, officials say, Homeland Security Investigations agents, Customs and Border Protection officers, Federal Bureau of Investigation officials and even the Postal Service have been pulled from their traditional duties to help track, detain and deport undocumented immigrants.

The change is reverberating across the federal law-enforcement system, especially in HSI, an agency in the Department of Homeland Security that has long had a focus on transnational gangs.

"It's not a very good time to be an HSI special agent," said Oscar Hagelsieb, a former top HSI official who retired after two decades in the field.​

Let's see, there was the child-trafficking make-believe that ended with a gunman raiding a pizza joint. And the underlying conspiracy theory that eventually had adherents living on the street, drinking urine, and waiting for JFK, his kid, and Elvis to come save the country. And the eighteen years, at least, screeching about the border and then doing everything they can think of to forestall a solution. Drugs, children, gangsters, secret voters to replace white people, trafficking, trafficking, trafficking!

Once elected, of course, they threaten war against another country, attempt state-on-state invasions by armed forces, and shut down the government, at least, in order to protect the clientele of one of a notorious sex trafficking operation involving the wealthy and politically powerful. Oh, right, and they dismantle the trafficking-enforcement operations while pulling border guards for snipe hunts "1,000 miles from the nearest border".

Prosecutions have slowed, including child-exploitation and trafficking; checkpoints are abandoned; ports of entry face staffing problems; senior officials are resigning in droves; the Trump administration is even sending counterintel and counterterrorism on migrant raids.

And if we intend to pretend that maybe they just couldn't foresee, well, sure, that's probably part of the point, but during the first Trump presidency, nineteen HSI field offices tried to warn off then-Secretary Nielsen; that is to say, they knew. The Cato Institute's director of immigration studies, David Bier, suggests, "They think they can take care of drug trafficking, sex trafficking and child trafficking just by deporting people," but this interpretation seems at least a little too kind: It's not so much that the administration is naïve, but that they really are that racist and stupid.
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Notes:

Bergengruen, Vera. "Trump's Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases". The Wall Street Journal. 6 October 2025. WSJ.com. 7 October 2025. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...-from-drug-money-and-sex-crime-cases-90b37cc9

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975294280949506435

 

[Tiassa]

Over and Over and Over Again

Okay, it's not really a difficult sentence, but still—

In the middle of arguments over Trump's National Guard deployment, prosecutors in the same courthouse have dismissed felony charges against another protester who had been accused of assaulting agents in Broadview​

—this morning's news from Jason Meisner↱ of Chicago Tribune might require a double-take.

Thus: While one judge was hearing arguments about National Guard deployment in Chicago, prosecutors in another case informed that judge they were dismissing charges against a disabled man charged assault of an officer under 18 USC § 1114 during the government's siege in Broadview.

Attorney Aaron Reichlein-Melnick↱ observes:

In case after case, we're seeing the admin splash lurid claims about violent protestors across social media and then, when they have to actually PROVE it to a jury, drop charges or fail to even sure an indictment.​

In this case, once again, it's a question of overcharging; max charges for max sentencing↗ was problematic in D.C., and so it would seem in the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1976364167318978994

 

[Tiassa]

[trending | unbelievable]

The order itself↱ feels almost plain, but the injunction handed down today by District Court Judge Sara Ellis is itself extraordinary, essentially eight pages in which constraint of the U.S. government ordered on every page. That is to say, there is nothing normal going on.

Chicago Tribune reporter Jason Meisner↱ covered the hearing itself, and provides a searing account including Judge Ellis quoting Carl Sandberg↱, "Those who sneered at this, my city, and I give them back the sneer".

And once again, a federal judge comes right out and says it↱: "I find the government's evidence to be simply not credible."

Ellis says Greg Bovino lied in his testimony. "In one of the videos Bovino obviously attacks and tackles the declarant Mr. Blackburn to the ground...But Bovino despite watching this video says that he never used force." {6↱}

Ellis says Bovino even "admitted that he lied" about being hit with a rock in Little Village. {7↱}

Ellis: "Mr. Hewson testified that in Broadview there were people with shields with nails in them, but again looking at this video at least some of these shields if not all were pieces of cardboard." {8↱}​

Coin toss: Heads, this is not fine; tails, this is #WhatTheyVotedFor. As it happens, it's not a coin toss; both are true. This is not normal. This is not the way the government is supposed to behave. This is not fine. To the other, yes, incompetent, dishonest brutality is indeed what they voted for.
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Notes:

@jmetr22b. "Judge Ellis is on the bench. I'll bring the highlights here". (thread) X. 6 November 2025. X.com. 6 November 2025. status/1986466655304548813

Ellis, Sara L. "Preliminary Injunction Order". Chicago Headline Club v. Noem et al.. U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division. 6 November 2025. Storage.CourtListener.com. 6 November 2025. https://storage.courtlistener.com/r...d.487571/gov.uscourts.ilnd.487571.250.0_1.pdf

https://twitter.com/x/status/1986468621879836926

 

[TheVat]

One of the Right Wing tactics these days is to simply make stuff up, with the expectation that even if they get called on it, the lies will manage to slide into some people's heads and not get reviewed or fact-checked. It's fiendishly clever: lies that don't have to hold up to scrutiny because they embed themselves right away and get past any critical thinking gate.

 

[Tiassa]

#NoMorePrayer | #WhatTheyVotedFor​

The Trump administration brought atheists some welcome relief, declaring public prayer illegal:

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.

A federal representative delivered the news to a huddle of faith leaders and activists standing outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Friday, speaking after faith leaders were denied entry to the building for the third time Friday.

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills, whose department helped facilitate the phone call, said that he was "trying to figure out" in discussions with Mayor Katrina Thompson and an attorney if a federal agency could legally ban religious gatherings on land owned by the village. Religious groups previously have been allowed to practice outside the facility, he said.

"I'm just a messenger," an anonymous voice stuttered over the phone to a huddle of faith leaders and activists standing outside the Broadview immigration processing facility on Friday.

During the call, which took place with a Block Club reporter present, the anonymous representative told a group of faith leaders and activists that "There is no more prayer in front of building or inside the building because this is the state and it's not [of a] religious background."

(Thrush↱)​

To the other, Trump also tried to reclaim some political appeal among New Yorkers by pardoning Darryl Strawberry of an old tax offense, and any anti-prayer activist already knows there isn't a chance in hell this stands up under the Constitution.

And, of course, we ought certainly congratulate our Christian conservative neighbors: ¡Congratulations, you must be so proud! This is, after all, #WhatTheyVotedFor.

But, yeah, that they needed an anonymous staffer to deliver the message by phone tells us how ICE and DHS really feel about what they're doing.
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Notes:

Thrush, Charles. "Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility". Block Club Chicago. 7 November 2025. BlockClubChicago.org. 8 November 2025. https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/1...rs-no-more-prayer-outside-broadview-facility/

Note: Reporting organization Block Club Chicago is a listed plaintiff in ongoing litigation against the U.S. government in related matter, Chicago Headline Club et al. v. Noem et al.; see #10↑ above.​

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[Sarkus]

Hmmm - had it been an entirely Christian - or even just a Catholic - gathering, would the same have been done? But "inter-faith" is likely on Turnip's (or more likely Miller's) radar as being somehow an indication of wokeness, socialism, communism, anti-americanism. Take yer pick.

 

[Tiassa]

Hmmm - had it been an entirely Christian - or even just a Catholic - gathering, would the same have been done? But "inter-faith" is likely on Turnip's (or more likely Miller's) radar as being somehow an indication of wokeness, socialism, communism, anti-americanism. Take yer pick.

It's bad public relations, at least: In the U.S., incarcerated persons are routinely granted access to religious personnel. ICE doesn't want that, since they're on a pogrom; they won't even let members of Congress have their constitutional regulatory access.

ICE refused clergy access for All Saints' Day, which is probably constitutionally problematic, i.e., it would be an interesting exception.

But imagine a president invoking wartime authority to forbid you from praying. Even during the Second, we didn't come anywhere near that, even during air-raid blackouts. For my grandparents, it was an exercise in caution. For my British neighbors, some of whose parents had to survive actual air raids, it seems an absurd example. Seriously, if a bunch of Christians wanted to sneak out in order to gather in the street and pray for peace during an air raid, their neighbors are only going to risk so much to drag them back to shelter, and, yeah, I can easily imagine wanting to arrest and prosecute them, afterward.¹

In the question of what goes on in Chicago, the district court has already refused the government emergency security authority. And that's important because, while the government might own the ICE facility, it does not own the street; the Village of Broadview owns the street. The federal government does not presently have authority to usurp Broadview, and the district court is not inclined to change that.

†​

Consider two powerful influences from the past: The grumpy old men complaining about "moral relativism" were pretty much always conservative; the actual Know-Nothings were traditionalist and conservative.

Basically, what we're getting from the GOP is an internet argument with no historical anchors. Say what the will about secular humanism, or whatever, but the moral relativism of grumpy old complaint finally found its fulfillment in its progeny.

Earlier this year, I had a discussion with someone about the idea of post quality in online discussion, and analogously, we might consider the stuffy, bureaucratic ossification of everything wrong with sprawling bureaucracies within the American government during my lifetime, but at least those cold bastards could explain it contiguously. Contiguity has always been fundamental to the legitimacy of American governance.

But, like so much internet discussion, this administration and the GOP at large seem unable to sustain their argument according to what is established, and insofar as they intend to establish anew, I find myself wondering at their post quality.

And so the governance by trolling will continue as long as the proverbial everybody else pretends contiguity. You know, kind of like a real internet discussion, when argument from ignorance trumps all else.
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Notes:

¹ If they happen to be Christians, then they already have their reward; Mt. 6.5-6↱. The First Amendment, of course, has something to say, but, given the obligation of certain public agency to actually attempt the rescue, the Terminiello dissent that the Constitution is not a suicide pact comes sharply into focus.​

 

[TheVat]

the proverbial everybody else pretends contiguity.

Contiguity: the state of bordering or being in direct contact with something.

 

[Tiassa]

Contiguity: the state of bordering or being in direct contact with something.

In this case, narrative contiguity. Historical contiguity. e.g., Contiguity has always been fundamental to the legitimacy of American governance.

One of the most apparent examples is judicial precedent.

Another is to simply pay attention to the stories people tell, i.e., what we're getting from the GOP is an internet argument with no historical anchors.

(Geographic contiguity is not quite so vital to the legitimacy of the United States, just ask Alaska and Hawaii; historical contiguity of geography, however, is a very important question, just ask the usurped Native American tribes.)

 

[TheVat]

Thanks, that was clarifying. Judicial contiguity is a good example. A narrative threaded around a Constitution. Break that contiguity and we're a banana republic. At that point, the stories are just cranked out at the ministry of truth, and fearless leader is always the protagonist.

 

[Tiassa]

An Actual Judge Said

Kyle Cheney↱ reports a tragedy:

A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from.​

To be clear: An actual judge said this.

This is a Thing That Should Not Be:

On July 18, 2025, with a pending court order requiring facilitation of his return to the United States, Cristian was transported, entirely against his will, to the very country from which he had sought asylum in the United States, Venezuela. The United States represented that the Maduro regime would permit travel to the United States for an individual whose return was "called for in legal proceedings or required by a court" and the individual was "willing to travel to the United States for that purpose" … As Cristian attempted to glean information, through his attorneys, about the possible terms of his return to the United States, Class Counsel lost touch with Cristian. His current whereabouts are unknown.

While Defendants argue that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b)(5) permits relief from judgment where prospective application of judgment "is no longer equitable" … the equities do not weigh in Defendants' favor here. As this court has already found, Cristian should never have been removed from this country without the bargained-for protections afforded him under the Settlement Agreement. It is possible, at this point, that Cristian has decided to forego a return to the United States and has voluntarily absented himself from contact with his counsel. It is equally possible that Cristian has been the victim of the anticipated violence that caused him to seek asylum in the United States in the first instance.⁹
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⁹ Whether the United States directly negotiated the prisoner swap resulting Cristian's transport to Venezuela in exchange for the release of American prisoners or simply "served as intermediary in light of the acrimonious relationship between El Salvador and the Maduro regime" … it is clear that it knowingly played a role in Cristian's landing in the country from which he had sought asylum.

(J.O.P. v. DHS↱; boldface accent added)​

Cristian was a displaced child refugee ca. 2019, among a class who won a Settlement Agreement in November, 2024.

This wasn't a mistake. This was cruelty. This was vengeance. This is what they voted for.
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Notes:

Gallagher, Stephanie A. "Memorandum Opinion". J.O.P., et al. v. DHS, et al. U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. 20 November 2025. storage.CourtListener.com. 21 November 2025. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483.449.0.pdf

 

[Tiassa]

in re U.S. v. Abrego Garcia

Adam Klasfeld↱ describes a "Kilmar Abrego Garcia case mystery":

Kilmar Abrego Garcia case mystery:

After issuing a sealed order last week, a federal judge cancelled a hearing this week on Abrego's vindictive prosecution motion.

Trump's DOJ moved to partially reconsider the ruling, and the judge scheduled a sealed, ex-parte hearing tomorrow.​

In subsequent↱ posts↱, the legal affairs reporter goes on to explain:

It's unclear what Trump's DOJ disliked about Judge Crenshaw's sealed ruling from last week or which part of it prosecutors are challenging.

But whatever led to the cancellation of this week's open court proceedings appears to have been unfavorable to the government.

Note:

Earlier this year, Judge Crenshaw granted an evidentiary hearing on Abrego's vindictive prosecution motion, giving prosecutors the burden to overcome the presumption of vindictiveness.

Abrego's lawyers argued:

* Feds weren't providing evidence, and
* As a result, haven't met their burden.

Crenshaw's sealed ruling fell amid that backdrop.​

And among popping eyeballs and smug political summaries, attorney John Podesta↱ offers a more basic and sober explanation:

Interesting. Sounds like the judge dismissed it, doesn't it, since the government is seeking reconsideration​

And while that remains to be seen, it is the most straightforward reading of Klasfeld's note about vindictive prosecution.

An ex parte hearing is an emergency hearing when only one side presents before the judge; the implication, here, is that Trump administration lawyers are going to beg the judge to not end their prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The more complicated detail is that the government is in a position it does not normally find itself, and generally ought not: To consider the idea of a presumption of regularity¹, the Court really doesn't have reason to refuse the Government an ex parte hearing, but it seems unlikely the DoJ will get its way; compared to regular order and process, prosecutors are already in a hole, and it seems most likely they're just begging for a rope to help them climb out. That is to say, no, that "Judge Crenshaw granted an evidentiary hearing on Abrego's vindictive prosecution motion", is not normal, or, at least, is not supposed to be.
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Notes:

¹ cf. "Justice and the Rule of Law [Trump Two Remix]" #3↗, 8↗, 15↗, 19↗ for discussion of the presumption of regularity and the Trump DoJ.​

https://twitter.com/x/status/1998406973847429458

 

[Tiassa]

California!

So, the Founders designed our government to be a system of checks and balances; the Trump administration, however, has made it clear that the only check they want is a blank one. Six months after federalizing the California Natinoal Guard, the Trump administration still retains control of approximately three hundred guardsmen, despite having no evidence that execution of federal law is impeded in any way, let alone significantly. Moreover, the Trump administration has sent California Guardsmen into other states, effectively creating a national police force made up of styate troops. In respnose to complaints, the Trump administration pretends that after the first federalization, subsequent "re-federalizations" are completely and perpetually unreviewable by the judiciary. This is not actually what the law says or how it works.

Actually,t those remarks should be attributed to Judge Charles Breyer↱, Northern District of California:

The Founders designed our government to be a system fo checks and balances.¹ Defendants, however, make clear that the only check they want is a blank one. Six months after they first federalized the California National Guard, Defendants still retain control of approximately 300 Guardsmen, despite no evidence that execution of federal law is impeded in any way―let alone significantly. What's more, Defendants have sent California Guardsmen into other states, effectively creating a national police force made up of state troops. In response to Plaintiffs' motion to enjoin this conduct, Defendants take the position that, after a valid initial federalization, all subsequent re-federalizations are completely, and forever, unreviewable by the courts. Defendants' position is contrary to law. Accordingly, the Court ENJOINS Defendants' federalization of California National Guard Troops.​

That would be Newsom v. Trump (25-cv-04870-CRB). The short form is that Trump has to give back the guardsmen called up from California.
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Notes:

Breyer, Charles R. "Order Granting Renewed Motion for Preliminary Injunction". Newsom v. Trump. United States District Court for the Northern District of California. 10 December 2025. storage.CourtListener.com. 10 December 2025. https://storage.courtlistener.com/r...d.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.225.0_2.pdf