Oct. 22, 2025 - National Guard and ICE legal battles
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Government shutdown forces 33,000 National Guard members to work without pay, creating training delays that threaten emergency readiness.
The conflicts over President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois and Oregon hinge on a question as old as the Constitution itself: Where does federal power end and state authority begin?
A three-judge panel appeared skeptical of the Trump administration’s arguments that the president has judicially un-reviewable power when it comes to the deployment of the National Guard on the streets of Los Angeles.
Experts say immigration agents have more latitude to be destructive than National Guard—with fewer avenues for San Francisco to push back.
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With the stated purpose of reducing crime and supporting deportation initiatives, President Donald Trump has sent National Guard troops to the streets of several American cities. So far, the National Guard has been deployed in Chicago,
The new bill in New York would allow the state attorney general to sue for a court order blocking a guard deployment if another state attempted to send troops without authorization. That wouldn’t include cases where the guard has been formally federalized, according to News 10.
But, O’Brien warned, “My calendar is in flux.” Since January, the Trump Administration had fired around a hundred immigration judges, including eleven in greater San Francisco. The thousands of cases left behind by every terminated judge were either frozen or reassigned.
DHS said it arrested 9 suspects with criminal records who were in the U.S. illegally during an immigration operation on New York City’s Canal Street. And there are new charges against a suspect who authorities said rammed his vehicle into ICE agents during an arrest.